Happy birthday to daughter Amy.

It’s a beautiful day as we say Do Widzenia to Krakow and Poland. Once we left the Krakow area we were greeted with beautiful vistas and gently rolling hills and then wooded areas before coming into the next town. It is so different from northern Poland and the other northern European countries where the land was so flat.

Thanks to reading Rick Steve’s guide for traveling in the Czech Republic, we were warned about the need to purchase a toll pass which substitutes for toll booths along the highways. There was no warning (at least none in any language we could understand) that anyone driving on Czech highways without the toll pass would be fined.  So we stopped at the first service area after crossing into Czech and bought a 10 day toll pass. As we approach Prague we are seeing some of the highest hills we’ve seen in Europe so far on this trip.

Our gps got us to Prague and through the maze of apartment buildings in the western part of the city where our Airbnb apartment is located without a hiccup. Then the fun began. Our host was not able too meet us at the parking garage of the building as planned. When i called her she said (in excellent English) that she couldn’t meet us and had emailed us all the info. Our European phones were not connecting to any phone service so we weren’t able to get on the internet and retrieve our mail.  I was finally able to connect to the internet and found a series of emails with detailed instructions, including photos, where to find key to get into garage, how to open garage door and then find the correct apartment.

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After that came the challenge of finding food (either a restaurant and or a grocery store). By now, it was after 6 p.m. and we were hungry. We couldn’t find a restaurant anywhere near us so we gave up on that idea and opted for the grocery store since we have a kitchen and have had good luck in other grocery stores. Well the streets in this neighborhood twist and turn a lot. Eventually we found the store with the help of a kind woman who spoke English. It was a really small store but we found the essentials: beer, wine, yogurt for breakfast, and frozen pizza since the kitchen has an oven.

We headed back “home ” with our treasures. Remember earlier I referred to the maze of apartment buildings? I neglected to mention that some are nearly identical. Well, we went to what we thought was our building, unlocked the entrance with our key, and walked up the 3 flights to our apt. The key didn’t fit the lock. Oops, that’s not our apt there are no little hearts with the apt number on the side of the door. We hadn’t walked far enough up the hill. We were on the correct floor and and the correct apartment, but the wrong building. It was weird that our key let us into the wrong apartment building. Thank heavens it didn’t let us into the wrong apartment. The experience reminded us of a 1976 Soviet romantic comedy entitled “The Irony of Fate” in which the main character, a Moscow gentleman, got drunk on New Years eve, was put aboard a flight to Leningrad, went to an apartment identical to his own, in an identical building on an identically named street and entered the apartment with his own key.  The producer was poking fun at the lack of architectural imagination in Soviet style housing. (It was a truly delightful movie, but the experience wasn’t quite as delightful as the movie.)

When we finally got to our apartment, the next challenge was figuring out how to operate the combination microwave/oven. Eventually, we mastered that and enjoyed our pizza, beer and wine. Tomorrow we look forward to exploring some of Prague once we figure out how to operate the fare card machines without local currency. The fare card machines don’t take credit cards, euros, dollars or even paper Korunas. They only accept coins (in Korunas) which, of course, we have none. So far, we haven’t mastered the problem and, given the lateness of the day (evening), it will have to wait for tomorrow morning. Stay tuned.