Prague

Yesterday we flew from Dubai to Prague. We had a stopover in Kiev, Ukraine and everyone onboard clapped when the plane landed. Don't know if it was relief or a tradition. When we stepped off the plane in Kiev it was snowing. It was really magical and the first time the boys have seen snow.

Kiev airport was not so magical; especially the toilets (worse than any toilets on the trip so far and that's quite an accolade). You know the toilets are bad when you decide to hold on until the plane takes off and the flight is 2 hours away. When our plane was due to board our flight was not even on the flight schedule. On questioning staff we were told 'wait, wait' and given a stern look. Finally had to use the loo and used my scarf as a full face burkha to prevent me from passing out. After a delay we took off for Prague and arrived at about 4:30pm; it was quite dark we took a bus and metro ride to the stop near our accomodation and then spent half an hour walking up and down the same street looking for it. It was a beautiful cobbled street but we were all tired and hungry and accumulating an extra case (still carry on size) to carry around didn't help.

This is how dark it was by 5:30pm. Thankfully we finally got a text from our accomodation and the manager, finding out we were lost came to get us. Turns out we had walked past the place about ten times but failed to notice the small piece of paper with the name 'Charles Bridge Apartments' typed on it. This business has apartments all over Prague and we were taken to a very nice three bedroom apartment with a full kitchen and laundry - not bad for $61 a night. We have only booked 2 nights accomodation but can extend till after Christmas if we want to.

We went to dinner at a gorgeous little Italian place...

Tomorrow we will explore Prague; hopefully we won't need a torch!