Spend the morning hitting the
snooze button and packing. Leave my
luggage at reception at 11am, pending my taxi at 12 noon. I take one last stroll around the local area,
stopping to buy an entirely unnecessary stracciatella ice cream. Arrive back at hotel to wait for taxi. The driver is unfriendly, as I have come to
expect. When we get to the new hotel, it
turns out that one can’t park directly outside it. The driver wants to discharge me into the
street and leave me to deal with my million bags and the cobblestones. I indicate that I shall most certainly not be
paying him until he assists me. He
veritably throws my suitcase into the reception area, where I see my beloved
husband!! We have arrived at the same
time- he from the airport, and I from the sinkhole that was my ex-hotel. Happy embrace, then back to car to throw
money at the driver. Unbelievably, the
reception lady at our new hotel, the Pod Vêzi, is giving Ads a blow-by-blow
account of: where to get money, which restaurants are good, the transport
system, Prague pitfalls, tour options and reputable operators etc etc. and all
this with a glamorous blonde smile! I am in another hospitality universe.
The hotel is at the foot of the
Chares Bridge, below (pod) one of the towers (vezi) on either side. It’s just charming, in a medieval building,
which is also pink! We are in the Annex,
or ‘Dependence’. Parquet floors, cottage
windows, lots of space and loveliness.
And the toilet has a ribbon on it telling us it has been
dEsinfected!
We settle in and then take a walk
over the Charles Bridge (Kurlov Most), so I can show him the old town (snow
angel) square across the Vltava river. Lunch
is traditional Czech food; basically a carb trainwreck. Beer, dumplings, meat (BDM). Beer.
Supper is with Antonia and Jörg at our hotel. More BDM. And good conversation. Settle into a luxury sleep.
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