Praha 2

Today we went on a seemingly uninteresting adventure to buy our train tickets to our next destination, Ljublijana in Slovenia, and it turned into the weirdest/sketchiest adventure yet. Aparently walking to the main train station in Prague is not okay. It is under construction to update the facade and such, but that is not really the problem. First we approached the street the train station is on on the wrong side of the street. Quite suddenly, without any warning (or at least any warning in English) the sidewalk ended with no way to get to the other side except jump a gaurdrail and run across a huge street, stand in the middle island then run arcoss the next section. In all of this, we forgot to pay attention to the name of the street, and did not make the turn we needed to.

So we wandered up and turned on the next available street assuming it was where we wanted to be. We wander down the street, and through the gaps in apartment blocks, we could see the train station, but not how to get to it. We bust out the map and realize where we are, but instead of backtracking and making the correct turn, we decide to wander through the neighborhood. We have spent the whole time here in Praha 1, the old town area, and this we noticed was Praha 2. It was just as cute and wonderful as Praha 1...for the meantime. WE turn in an attempt to get down to the train station, but the sidewalk keeps ending. It seemed like everywhere that we wanted to go was blocked off. We had to go down into the subway stations to get back on the other side of the huge street- Wilsonova, thats right after the US prez there is also a Churchilla- and then had to figure out how to get back over again since the train station was actually on the side of the street we had been on. Long story short, dont go to Praha 2 unless you know where you are going.

We managed to successsfully purchase our tickets, and attempted to return to Praha 1, and ran into the same problem: sidewalks ending, having to go down into underground pee stinky tunnels. Yuk! Creepy too. It is a little unnerving to be in undergound tunnels with random Chezch bums when zou are lost. Anyway, We made it out safe and sound and we have decided to take a taxi to the station when we leave. More adventures to come....we are going to the beergarden this afternoon!