Tag: Czech Republic

EuroTour day 25 – Prague sightseeing

Today I visited the Prague center to see all the major attractions. I rode to the center on a tram #22. There was no ticket vending machine at the station but the nearby tobacco store was selling the tickets. The tickets are based on the time duration, e.g. ticket for 30 minutes, 90 minutes, 1 day or 3 days. The ticket can be used on any mode of public transportation.

Prague is a very beautiful city. Also what is great about it is that there are so many places to eat here and the food is good and relatively cheap (especially comparing to Basel, Switzerland 🙂 ).

I was in the center early in the morning and it was raining a little. Because of that there were not too many tourists. But later in the day it got sunny and there were huge crowds of tourists everywhere.

EuroTour day 24 – to Prague by train

I rode to the Bratislava train station to take a morning train to Prague. I am glad that there were not too many cars on the road because riding a bike on busy Bratislava streets would not be easy. There are bike lanes but they are not well marked in places and sometimes they just end without any direction where to go next.

The main train station looked somewhat similar to the Soviet era train stations in Russia that I remember from my childhood.

Bratislava main train station

Based on the looks of the train station I had pretty low expectation for the actual train, but it turned out to be really nice. It was clean, had plenty of space for bikes, free wi-fi and everything you would expect from a modern train. It was way better than the Amtrak from Seattle to Portland or the Deutsche Bahn train I took last year from Amsterdam to Berlin.

Very nice train
Some local station on the way to Prague
Train arrived in Prague