2004.10.15 to Prague

So now we're finally on our way back to Prague to end our Eurotrip in style - hopefully as big hold'em poker winners! We've been impressed with zee Germans and their Deutsche Bahn rail transit system from our previous 3 trips: efficient, modern, and most of all, always-on-time trains. They even had trip schedule brochures placed in every row detailing all the stops and the accurate arrival times. Our route to Prague would involve a transfer in Dresden with a very small window to catch the earliest transfer. Sadly, DB let us down. The Dresden main station was undergoing renovations and our train (from Amsterdam) was delayed upon arriving and so we missed our next train (to Prague). We killed a few hours in and around the station - it was pretty cold here as we weren't feeling the fall temperatures versus the summer-like weather we had a few days ago in Barcelona.

Destination: Praha (aka Prague)
Arrived in the late evening to our dismay as we again faced the same situation as before: all the hostels we had tried were booked solid. Things were looking grim for us. Jam! indeed.

Thankfully our good experience with the only backpacker we toured with, Janelle, provided another benefit: she told me about the hostel she had stayed at while visiting Praha. We were at the Golden Sickle hostel once again as our last resort and their very helpful reception made a phone call to Hostel Tyn and informed us they had vacancy! Count it! Hostel Tyn turned out to be a very nice hostel (one of the better ones we've stayed at actually) located in the heart of Old Town near the Astronomical Clock tower. We would book our dorm beds for 4 nights and then headed off to Banco Casino for poker once again...