Wed.22nd Oct:
We hopped onto a bus with our 20inch luggage and bumped our way to the Gateshead interchange to catch the metro, my very 1st time on the Newcastle `MRT`(Singapore term for Mertro.) The train to the airport got delayed for some reason and while hanging around to wait for train arrival, it was also that time I had my 1st brush with a Chava (UK's term to coin a hooligan, Singapore Hokkien way means Paikia ) who said something about `from China?` before he quickly walked away, I reckon Steve BB standing by my side must have scared him away.
Anyway, 1/2 hr train journey to the Newcastle airport and 2hrs flights and by 9pm, we were at the Prague Airport.
Prague Airport Horror:
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This was when our horror nightmare begun; There was no sight of botak 'Bald' Dan, Steve's good buddy who had promised to meet up and take us to our Mustek Hotel in Old Town. Time went ticking away and an hour later, Steve went bersek and thought of all the possible reasons that Dan didnt turn up. We gave up waiting and went to a taxi booth in the airport to book for a cab to bring us to our hotel as it was pretty late by then to spend any time to figure our way to our destination. As we stood outside the airport waiting for the taxi lady to wave us the cab, I noticed a bald guy from far running towards our direction. 'Is that Dan?' I pointed out, and before we knew it, we were hugging Dan and David and together on the cab.
Andy's Surprise:
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What awaited us was a further surprise at the hotel when Steve went screaming away. Andy Heslop had popped out right in front of him unexpectedly, a huge surprise. Dan, Steve and Andy were exhilatered. Imagine 3 guys hugging non-stop in the middle of a busy touristy street, hmm, haha. So we all check into our own place for abit before meeting up later.
Mustek Hotel:
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Mustek hotel was pretty much a decent hotel, with a decent room. We paid 187 Euros for 3 nights (59 euros for weekday and 69 for weekend). Pretty spot-on as it's situated right in the middle of Prague City for that kind of price, except that we have got a shared public bathroom and shower , which didn't cause us any convenience at all.
M1 Lounge:
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By 11pm, Steve, I, Dan, David, Andy and his girlfriend, Sara were in Dan's Club, M1 lounge. Music was pretty much to my taste, R n B, think of Alicia Keys and all the black's rap songs, no surprise the club was almost half 'bleak'-full 2 hours later. I was well impressed with the huge Mojito that I had never seen anything like that in my years of clubbing. The night was a rave and we got all the silly pics and shots. We hit Andy Sara's where it was a really nice huge apartment and chilled for abit whereby Steve and Dan acted out the scene how Dan got the huge scare on his right ankle, thanks to Steve years ago. We ended the night with SAD Fully Monty in the middle of freezing cold Quiet Prague street at 6am. (SAD - Steve, Andy, Dan).
Thurs.23rd oct - 9am Zombie Breakfast:
3 hours later, Steve was trying his hardest to wake me up after Sara's phone alarm went off.(she kindly lent it to us yesterday night as we haven't got any basic form of alarm). 15 minutes later, we hit the restaurant table. Laid infront of us were different sorts of ham and pork, cereals, and milk, all cold, only thing hot was boiled eggs. Half hour later, we went back to bed and by noon, we were hitting the street to meet up and Andy and Sara a few streets away.
What followed after was a nice lunch to perk the 4 zombies who were trying to recover from yesterday's rave, and then touristy bits and photos. Dan went uncontactable even towards the end of day.
We ended the day with a late nice dinner at an italian restuarant where they could crudely mistook steve soup order as minestrone instead of tomato and not bothered to replace it just because kitchen was closed? Zero effort of apology.
Typical barbarian stupid Czechs.
End of an early night to be ready for the next full day of TOURISTY BITS!!
Fri.24th Oct:
We woke up afresh to have our breakfast and start our day! Boat trip, then lunch at pheonix, then me and steve, 2 kebahs, went to find dan and david, then few booz, then black theatre, cats in prague. and boogie the night away with way too smoky bars that I was surprised that I survived at the end of the night.
Night ended at around 4am plus, all of us promised to meet at the random cafe few hours later for breakfast.
Sat.25th Oct - Goodbye Prague:
We skipped our hotel breakfast so we could catch up on more sleep.
No 1 turned up at the restaurant for a meal as arranged the night before. Steve and I left after hanging around for 10minutes, and went toddled around to look elsewhere for food. Steve was craving for pizza and I with my no other italian but penne.
Finally, we came across this restaurant in a random shopping mall, with the price list half the $$ as compared to the alfresco for the same food on a busy street. Food was exceptionally nice and great view looking out from the 2nd level.
I dragged Steve to the New Yorker shopping mall as he always wanted to have a browse, but typical him always like to procrastinate things-to-do until the last minute. Another random shopping mall that provides a strong contrast to the gothic Prague filled with centuries old buildings everywhere.
We hopped on to the 6pm easyjet flight back to Newcastle.
Goodbye Gotham Town.
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