All were up early today and ready for our last full day in Prague. We left the apartment and headed for the bakery for breakfast. We had our latte’s and bakery goods on our sidewalk table as we watched the folks of Prague venture off to work.

Our day pass on the Tram is good for 24 hours so after breakfast, we jumped on Tram 22 and headed the direction that we had never gone before. Just exploring on the tram route. We went higher up on the hill that we were on and the area became increasingly newer than what we had seen before. Single family homes and offices. Eventually we saw vacant land so we knew we were approaching the edge of town. Finally the tram came to a stop at the end of the line. We hopped off and walked up to the Tram at the front of the line for our ride back into Prague.

We went past the Castle District and the New Quarter, crossed the river and through Old Town until the other end of the Tram 22 run. We got off there and walked about 3 blocks to Wenceslas Square(Vaclavske Namesti). It was here that in 1989 300,000 Czechoslovokians gathered to protest Communism. When Breshnev did not apply any military force, they knew that the end of Communism was near.

We walked to the Main Train Station to see where we would catch our train tomorrow. It was good that we did this because we found out that we would board the train at a different station;  a good catch.  We had not left a lot of time to spare in the morning.

As we were pretty wary from our two days of walking all over Prague, we decided to go back up into our area near the apartment and find a good Czech restaurant where we could get some real Czech food. We found the Ubileho Lva. The Ken’s had the real Czech meal of smoked pork, sausage, bacon, potato dumplings, potatoes, and something we did not recognize. It all sat on a bed of red cabbage. A large lunch to say the least. The girls had taco salads. Turned out to be the most expensive meal we have had yet..900 Koruna (about $53 for the 4 of us). Probably our big meal for the day today.

We then walked back to the apartment arriving at about 3 pm. The girls decided to try the combination washer dryer to do up a few things. It made it through the wash cycle but now at 4:35 pm, they have not found the dry cycle. Eventually they figured out that it was only a washing machine and got the drying rack out from under the stairs and hung the clothes up to dry. They should be dry by bedtime hopefully.

We called the Budapest Hilton to arrange our cab for tomorrow. Turns out that it will be Hungary Independence Day tomorrow so the streets will be closed, the bridges will be closed so of course the cab will cost a bit extra.

Julie Ann and Ken walked to the bakery at 6:45 pm to get dinner sandwiches. Unfortunately the bakery closed at 6 pm so the Panani sandwiches we had planned on turned out to be bread, cheese and salami bought at the Vietnamese Grocery Store. Not a bad little dinner, of course accompanied by cheap wine.

Epilogue to Prague: Although Prague is progressing nicely coming out of Communism; it is a beautiful city and friendly people. Caution needs to be exercised as there are still some opportunists around the city. It was refreshing to see young people that were attractively dressed, rarely any tattoos or piercings, no vibrating cars from music too loud and no apparent addiction to cell phones.

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