Czech me out

Prague-interesting thus far.

We got into Prague last night at around 10 and everything in the train station was closed except a small place to buy premade food and soda. We also had to change currency because the Czech Republic has yet to switch to the Euro. After stoping at an ATM to take out 1000 czk, the ATM spat out at me a 1000czk bill. To top it off the ticket machine didn't take any bills. Ok fine, so we bought a fanta to get some change but I got back only bills. Maggie got back a small amount of coins and we decided to just use that to buy our tickets. It only gets better. The tickets cost 26 czk and we didn't have enough for the three of us. Kent bought one at that price and maggie and I bought two children tickets for 9 czk a piece figuring we could cheat the system just this once because we are good people who would have paid full price but it was late and we had no way of getting enough coins. We validated our tickets and got on the subway to go one stop to change lines. As we are about to change lines, a man flashing some badge said he was checking tickets. Kent showed him his and he let him through. My turn. He stops me and maggie because we have child tickets. After appoligizing and offering to pay the difference he demanded our passports which we stupidly handed over. Then he pulled some ticket out and said it was a 700 czk fine per person, 1400 total. We begged to let us through saying we spoke no czech and it was an honest mistake. He didn't care and was a total ass about it. So we handed over our money and left absolutly fuming because we figured we had deffinitly been scammed. Well this put me in a great mood and Prague on my shit list immediatly. Unfair of me to make sweeping generalizations because this is a great city.

We made it to the hostel, which is right in the old town square, paid for our room and then kent and I set out for a cheap bite to eat. We walked around the square and in the wrong direction down the expensive, rich part of town. We saw names like Dior, Gucci and such. Couldn't afford that. Our next step was to backtrack to the square where many black men asked us rather dirty questions and offered us cheap entrance to a strip club. Actualy many clubs, one involving midgets. Of course we accepted and now have the clap. Or we said no and went to a kebab place where we met four really intoxicated british guys and got the clap. They were nice at least, but I couldn't really understand anything they said.

We awoke this morning to more rain. We have not seen the sun since our first day in Vienna. We had breakfast in Bohemia Bagels for very cheap and then went to a Kafka museum. The museum was only one room and in retrospect not worth the 50 czk. Water under the bridge. We left the museum walking in a general direction towards another museum we wanted to see. On the way we stopped for a beer. .5L for 33 czk was a pretty good deal. We hung out there for a little and continued on our way to the instrument museum. The second museum was entertaining, but again smaller then I expected. We walked back the long way taking the scenic route and stopped for some czech pastry type thing. It was sort of similar to a cruchy churo. We are currently at the hostel and are going to take a little nap and relax. The plan for this evening is to go a few streets down to a bar with resonably priced food and the USA v. Spain soccer (fotbal) game on tv. Tomorrow the plan is to leave about 9:30 and maybe a free walking tour of the city and then hop on a train in the afternoon to Berlin to meet up with Kents friend Nick.

***Note*** I do not really have the clap. Kent does.