After 16 hours of travmel, with a stop in Iceland and London we arrived in Prague! Surprisingly feeling pretty good, but then you who know me, know that I'm a pretty good sleeper anywhere, anytime so I hot some good sleep, unlike Don... who is not such a good sleeper. Our stop in Iceland was fairly short but definitely intriguing and next time, I'd like to stay awhile. Icelandic Air was VERY nice also and a great low fare. London was a bit crazy with a change in terminals by train which we navigated well after a passport attendant let us cut lines after we were directed to the wrong line... Ah the joys of travel.
We were met at the airport by a wonderful young man who took us to the hotel. He was very knowledgable and we were impressed by his knowledge of history of the country. He told us how a person who is 97 and lived in the same house all his life would have seen four changes of country, four language changes.... In his lifetime. Needless to say the Czech Republic ( we were corr ected, it is not Czechoslovakia) has some type of upheaval every 20 years or so. He also spoke of the removal of Communistic control saying there are those who miss it as it was a time that you could be assured of food and water.... That is for those who are lazy and uneducated. Interesting. I mentioned my maiden name, Chermak, (which is Čermák here) is a VERY common name. Somehow after hearing that I can feel my dad's presence here.... I wish I had done a little research on my ancestry before we arrived bur perhaps I'll run into a few Čermáks here!
After settling into our very nice modern hotel... We ventured out to dinner where we had goulash and dumplings and some wonderful Czech beer.
Today we're off to explore with our Rick Steves guide book . Here's a pic of half the breakfast spread.... Oh my, need to walk a lot today! We'll have till Sunday to explore on our own, then we join our bike group. 
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