From Vienna to Prague

Day 8:
A long bus ride from Vienna to Prague. There are places to stop in between for lunch and breakfast.

We stopped at a roadside restaurant at a place called Melikana about an hour before reaching Prague.
It's a buffet style lunch with lots of buses arriving simultaneously making it a run around carrying platters. Food is OK. Coffee too but not as good as in Budapest. There are charging stations for smart phones and ATMS. They accept Euros or Czech currency. They have only pay toilets, better take Euros or Korunas.

We reached Prague late in the evening and had our group dinner at our hotel. Later went out without tour director who showed us how to work the Metro. The nearest Metro to our Hotel was Andel. You come across many shopping areas before you get to the metro, a 10 minutes’ walk. Metro is quite clean and Czech people value their assets, no defacing of the walls etc.

We walked around the old town and had the first look at the Astronomical Clock...

Here are some pictures of the day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtIyGsg-pDU

Tour of Munich, Budapest, Vienna, Prague and Salzburg - 6

Day 8
You may get to a place fast if you fly (in most cases), but traveling by bus is a great option as you can see the changing landscape, the rivers and valleys, the people and their costumes, etc. We traveled by bus and the ride was long but it was worthwhile. Our tour director took us out to introduce the city of Prague and show how to work the Metro. We stayed at the NH Prague Hotel near the metro station ANDEL (about 500 meters away).

One of the things that happens when you cross country boundaries is the currency related issues. At this point both Germany and Czech Republic accepted Euros but some of the Prague businesses used strictly Korunas [Czech crown (koruna), abbreviated as Kč, with the international abbreviation CZK].  Our tour director advised us to change as little as possible to Korunas as its usability in other European cities was limited.

I saw a number of shops selling alcohol and liqueurs and strangely Absinthe appears to be a popular drink as I saw a large number of shops displaying absinthe prominently.

Here is a video of our bus travel from Vienna to Prague, the Day 8 our tour.