Sunday, July 22, 2018

Last stop: Germany

When we finally arrived in Germany, we took a really expensive taxi ride to my friends house. It was expensive...

We spent the next day celebrating my friend's birthday by walking around her town and then visiting a bar that night. It was interesting.

Then the next day, we traveled home on IcelandAir. Icelandair had some amazing advertising and we now want to visit Iceland. I also got chosen for a random security check, one of those in depth ones between our flights. It was stressful because we didn't know our flight was delayed and we were already late for boarding the next flight. Everything was fine though and we managed to get home.

Disclaimer: blurb about visiting Germany with Abigail back in 2016 because I forgot to say something about it.

Prague, Czech Republic: The City of Getting Lost

We traveled to Prague after being in Assisi. Checked into our hostel and then went exploring. We had a map with us, however we ended up taking a wrong turn and got lost. The map wasn't helping us so finally after a few hours of walking, we asked for help and found out we weren't even on the map anymore! We had managed to walk right off it. Luckily, we were able to make it back to our hostel that night.

The next day, we took one of the free walking tours and learned all about Prague. I definitely would have liked to spend more time there since the walking tour had so many suggestions of where to visit.

We got on a bus though and spend the next way too many hours traveling to Germany on the bus.

Disclaimer: I completely failed to finish writing about traveling so I don't remember all the gory details of visiting Prague as I wish I would have. So here's a blurb about visiting in Prague back in 2016.

Assisi, Italy: Hills Upon Hills

We went to Assisi, Italy simply because Abigail wanted to go to the home of Saint Francis. It really felt like we were stalking some priests on our way there, because one had first helped us with buying the tickets to get on the train when someone else was trying to butt in and help us but we didn't want their help. The priest just told the guy to leave us alone basically and we went back to work on buying our tickets. Then we got on the same train compartment as him and his priest buddies and they all got off at Assisi and took the same bus from the train station into Assisi that we took.

Once we got into Assisi, we went to our hostel. It wasn't in Assisi, but rather was a ways away from it. We dropped our stuff off there, however check in wasn't until 4pm so we couldn't get into the rooms yet. We were okay with just leaving our bags in the kitchen though until check in time and then headed to explore Assisi. We were only spending that one day there before heading back to Rome to catch our flight to Prague, so we had to make the best of it. We started out walking through some Arch that was kinda cool called "Porta San Pietro". The first thing we wanted while we were there was food because we hadn't had breakfast. We had asked for breakfast at our hostel in Rome but they had messed up and not gotten it for us since we were checking out earlier than any of the hostel workers arrived. They weren't very nice about it either in all honesty. Anyhoo, we found something to eat before continuing on our way to the place Abigail wanted to see.

Disclaimer: I wrote this back in 2016 and don't feel like adding more onto it. I don't fully remember what happened when we were in Assisi other than I'd be more than willing to go back.