Arrival in Prague

We walked to our hostel, 10 minutes from the train station if you don’t take a wrong turn (which we did). Prague is a city of narrow, twisty street that don’t ever run in a single straight direction, not even the main ones.  You start down one street heading the direction you want to go, only to turn 90 degrees and end up somewhere else.  Its part of the city’s charm. We checked into our hostel.  Our room is fine.  Clean and moderately roomy with our own bathroom (very orange with the standard 1 sq meter shower).   

After checking in, we went to a local Czech restaurant.  David and Delaney has schnitzel and onion mashed potatos, and I had roast beef with spinich.  We all shared an order of ‘bread dumplings’.  They were kind of like really soft bread without the crust, not the kind of dumpling I had imagined. The menu explained that the restaurant was "all natural" basically.  I ordered a Fanta to drink and they said "no Fanta" (this was a first for me in Europe).  They brought a 'homemade orange drink' instead.  Basically fresh squeezed OJ with seltzer water.

 I managed to make out that the third item down was chicken, and of course Steak was identifiable.  Fortunately we got an English menu before we had to order!

 Spinich and steak - tasty;  Beets - untasted.