Thursday 15th May 2008
Home time, but not quite yet. We had to be out of our room at 12.00 and we weren't getting picked up for airport until 7.00pm so we went out for the afternoon and managed to fit a lot into our last day including sitting in the park having a sandwich from Subway, walking over to the Charles Bridge area, shopping, a boat trip and Tom even managed a trip up to the Petrin Tower up the hill, whilst I did some more shopping for last minute gifts.
We found a lovely restaurant for food at about 4.30pm called the Pizza Coloseum, just off one of the side streets from Old Town Square. It's a chain restaurant and you can find out more about these restaurants at www.pizzacoloseum.cz. The interior was really nice and unusual with a model of the Colosseum with candles in at the front. The dishes were mainly pizza, pasta and salad and is definitlely recommended. We wished we had found this place earlier rather than on our last day!
Eventually we were back at the hotel and got a taxi to the airport. Our flight was delayed again on the way back by about 3 hours. We actually were all on the plane and then had to get back off for a few hours and then go through airport security again before we could get back on the plane a few hours later. Apparantly there was a radar fault in Germany and no flights could get through to the Uk. The problem got fixed though and by about midnight UK time and 1.00am Prague time, we were on our way. Thanks to a few air control short cuts we made it back really quickly and got home at about half two in the morning.
We had an amazing time in Prague and would recommend it to anyone for a weekend or even a week long visit. I would say that to really get to know the city and find your way around you should stay for at least 3 nights if you can. Our hotel was in a great location, called the hotel Bila Labut. Although we also passed and heard about a number of other great hotels. We were told by one of the Prague guides that the Four Seasons Hotel is the best hotel in Prague and the Hilton the second best. So if money is no object I would go for one of them. Otherwise there are loads of 3 star and 4 star hotels close to Prague centre offering a comfortable place to stay.
We are already planning to go back about the same time next year so at least that's something to look forward to as I browse wistfully through my Prague photos wishing I was still there :-)
