Tour Log 2: Hotel Duo, Prague
Saturday 12 April 2008
I wasn’t really panicking yesterday. No, honestly, I wasn’t. Completely calm. As always.
Anyway, as it happened, most of the luggage turned up in Prague on the later flights, and we are down to only a couple of missing items that are expected to arrive on the first BA flight to Prague today. A snare drum that got separated from us right at the beginning, and has been floating like the flying Dutchman around Sydney Airport since Wednesday, will also fly in tomorrow morning with my son, Rohan (former SACS student, and now a staff assistant on tour). So, it looks like we can safely abandon the a capella Plan B.
The Hotel Duo is all lights and action, let me tell you. It seems to be the social and convention centre for this part of Prague, with a casino, a gym, swimming pool and bowling alley. When the Kightleys and I finally arrived there about 11.00pm last night the place was still rocking, and the bar was full (but, don’t worry, not with our guys!). For an eastern European neo-Stalinist hotel, the rooms are not at all bad, I must say, but I am sure everyone was so tired after the long journey that being assigned to the manger in Bethlehem would have been quite OK for at least one night.
Today, the plan is to have the morning in Prague doing a guided walk before we take off for our trip to Lysá nad Labem (pronounced ‘Lisa’ and ‘nad Labem’ meaning ‘on the Elbe’) this afternoon.
