First impressions
We made it. After a six hour layover in Frankfurt to catch a flight into Prague, we have arrived out of our friend’s residence in a residential neighborhood of Prague. A relatively quick taxi ride through the back streets of the city revealed a city that still has two faces almost twenty years after the fall of Communism. At one turn you can find a city with clean office, residential and beautiful historical buildings. You then turn down another road and see the grungy decaying legacy of the Communists.
Despite our bodies not having a clue what time it was, we still managed to muster enough energy to walk over to a restaurant with our friend J.C. and have a couple beers and good Czech food. I couldn’t tell you what exactly either Doug or I ate, but I do know my meal involved chicken and rich cream sauce with some scalloped potatoes. Doug ate something breaded, perhaps pork. It was a long day of travel so anything that wasn’t served wrapped in plastic was a welcome site.