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Because our favorite cafe didn't open until 10am we lazed around the flat before heading out for breakfast. Colin and Morag decided to go and see the babies festooned on the communications tower near our flat (only to find out when they got there that they had been taken down). I walked down to the station to get my over 70 free travel pass. I didn't realise that there was more than one station. The first one I came to was for provincial trains and nobody could help me except the woman in the "Information" booth who directed me to the "main" station which was about 800 metres away. I found the information desk in the main station but the woman couldn't help me and directed me to another part of the station. I wandered around for a while trying to follow her directions and by chance found a tourist point where the girl behind the counter said I didn't need a card and all I had to do was produce my passport to prove my age .... makes sense!!. This whole fruitless exercise took well over an hour. After I recovered my composure I headed for the Museum of Communism down the road. Google maps on my phone wasn't very helpful and had me looking for the museum about 200 metres from where it actually was. Eventually I found it and paid my geriatric admission. The museum told the history of communism from 1918 when Czechoslovakia was formed after WWI when the Austro-Hungarian empire disintegrated. It went all the way through to 1989 when the communists were thrown out of power and Vaclav Havel was elected president.
After the museum I checked out the market outside. I had a cold beer and some cashew nuts as that was all there was worth buying. We were meeting up with Danny and Barbara at Vyton on the river so I headed that way and walked down past Wenceslas Square and along 28 Rinja street where Jacki and Gerry and I rented an apartment at no. 7 in 2012.
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| No. 7 Rinja Street. |
When I hit the river I took the "free" tram to the Vyton stop. Colin and Morag were already there having a drink at the Customs House nearby.
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| View from an island on the river Vitava. |
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| Pleasure boats for rent on the Vitava. |
Danny was taking us to his favorite local restaurant to sample the speciality of the house, Duck. It was very nice, washed down with a bottle of the local plonk.
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| Colin, Danny, Morag, Barbara and Alan |
After dinner we all walked along the river where there were lots of young people congregating in the many bars and restaurants in boats tied up to the embankment.
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| Public buildings lit up along the river embankment. |
We sampled an ice cream and coffee on the way before saying good bye to Danny and Barbara and heading back to our flat on the tram. Colin and I are heading to Berlin in the morning on the bikes and Morag is taking the train.
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