If You Don't Have Travel Days Like These, You Are Doing Something Wrong
May 30th, 2010 Sunday
Started off EARLY today. Tawny woke me up saying the alarm didnt work on her phone and that it was already 6:55, which we were supposed to get up at 6:30. So I got up, took a shower, packed all my stuff, and then got my watch to put it on. I looked down and it read 6:00 am! So what went through Ashley's head at that moment? You got it: What the fuck??!!! And a I'm going to kill Tawny thought as well. Tawny said we were another hour ahead here so I was like ok and we went downstairs. I looked at their clock and it really was 6 am! Ughh! So we got up at about 4:55 today! We hopped on the internet until breakfast opened at 6:30. We ate, took a nap, and then headed for our train which we thought left at 8:34. Yes, I said thought. Oye! WE got to the train station at 8:25 and didnt see our train so we looked at our ticket. Guess what time our train left? 8:25. We were like are you kidding?! So we missed our train, but there was another one at 9:32 that we could catch. Lucky us, right? Well yes and no. The train was delayed by 2 minutes, by 4 minutes, by 6, 8, 10.... and it kept being pushed back again and again. So it was forever delayed by "10 minutes" or 135 to be persice. Yeah, close to two hour, later we finally borded a train to Prague (or Praha). Turns out someone commited suicide in front of our train and thats why it was delayed. Chyeah, horrible, no?
So we finally made it to Praha (its just fun to say) and attempted to find our hostel. Yes, I said attempted yet again. We read the directions the website gave us but we thought that it only took us to the metro stop and didnt give any further instructions. We later found out that we are just stupid and dint read it right. hahahaha. :) We had the address so we tried walking... with our backpacks mind you. It was a horrendously long walk and they dont have any rhyme or reason to the address number on buildings so that sucked. But I'm happy to say we finally arrived... in our creepy hostel that apparently claims to be the "fanciest" hostel in Prague. If thats true, I dont want to see the other hostels! lol! It was pretty sketch. Example #1: the computers were downstairs in the basement, which was... hmm.... well like a dungeon. It had that cave smell to it. If you have ever been in an actual cave thats what it was like. To make it more creepy there was barbed wire in a corner (real, not fake) and there was a porn ad on a table that Tawny saw. Example #2: Our door was an actual key lock door that you had to put the key into a lock from the inside as well as the outside. So when you wanted to get out of the room you had to get the key and unlock it first. To make things more fun, our room was more of a closet. It had concrete walls and no windows, but hey, the walls were a happy yellow I guess.
Anyhoo, once we settled into our creeper hostel, we left again to go get some dinner. We ate at a very yummy resturant and I got chicken wrapped in bacon. I'm going to be so spoiled when I get back!!
Started off EARLY today. Tawny woke me up saying the alarm didnt work on her phone and that it was already 6:55, which we were supposed to get up at 6:30. So I got up, took a shower, packed all my stuff, and then got my watch to put it on. I looked down and it read 6:00 am! So what went through Ashley's head at that moment? You got it: What the fuck??!!! And a I'm going to kill Tawny thought as well. Tawny said we were another hour ahead here so I was like ok and we went downstairs. I looked at their clock and it really was 6 am! Ughh! So we got up at about 4:55 today! We hopped on the internet until breakfast opened at 6:30. We ate, took a nap, and then headed for our train which we thought left at 8:34. Yes, I said thought. Oye! WE got to the train station at 8:25 and didnt see our train so we looked at our ticket. Guess what time our train left? 8:25. We were like are you kidding?! So we missed our train, but there was another one at 9:32 that we could catch. Lucky us, right? Well yes and no. The train was delayed by 2 minutes, by 4 minutes, by 6, 8, 10.... and it kept being pushed back again and again. So it was forever delayed by "10 minutes" or 135 to be persice. Yeah, close to two hour, later we finally borded a train to Prague (or Praha). Turns out someone commited suicide in front of our train and thats why it was delayed. Chyeah, horrible, no?
So we finally made it to Praha (its just fun to say) and attempted to find our hostel. Yes, I said attempted yet again. We read the directions the website gave us but we thought that it only took us to the metro stop and didnt give any further instructions. We later found out that we are just stupid and dint read it right. hahahaha. :) We had the address so we tried walking... with our backpacks mind you. It was a horrendously long walk and they dont have any rhyme or reason to the address number on buildings so that sucked. But I'm happy to say we finally arrived... in our creepy hostel that apparently claims to be the "fanciest" hostel in Prague. If thats true, I dont want to see the other hostels! lol! It was pretty sketch. Example #1: the computers were downstairs in the basement, which was... hmm.... well like a dungeon. It had that cave smell to it. If you have ever been in an actual cave thats what it was like. To make it more creepy there was barbed wire in a corner (real, not fake) and there was a porn ad on a table that Tawny saw. Example #2: Our door was an actual key lock door that you had to put the key into a lock from the inside as well as the outside. So when you wanted to get out of the room you had to get the key and unlock it first. To make things more fun, our room was more of a closet. It had concrete walls and no windows, but hey, the walls were a happy yellow I guess.
Anyhoo, once we settled into our creeper hostel, we left again to go get some dinner. We ate at a very yummy resturant and I got chicken wrapped in bacon. I'm going to be so spoiled when I get back!!
posted by Ashley | 8:18 AM
1 Comments:
I just love to read your blog! You have such a great sense of humor. Maybe you could do your own reality show...2 girls backpacking through Europe....
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