Early rise, 4am, The N. is flabbergasted, her phone is flat, for some reason it didn’t charge overnight. Of course its nothing she did!!! Breakfast, shower, clean up and out to the street for the taxi at 4.45am

We booked a cab using FreeNow last night, Maribell arrives on time. €41 to the airport for 4, the train option is €9.75 each so the cab is OK value by me.

Oddly just around from our apartment we see Batman at a pedestrian crossing, (no bullshit!) Either on the way home or on the way out? Dunno. But I know that Barcelona is safe, and Gotham City is in trouble cause he ain’t there to save them from the Joker.

Terminal 1 Barcelona, where our Veuling flight to Prague leaves from is a busy as anything. Thankfully we already have electronic Boarding Passes (good option Sonya), we work out how to put our bags into the mystery conveyer belt, and head to Gate A.

The plane is chocka block, full as a Catholic school some might say. Most bring their over sized carry on bags, but not much I can do about it as we struggle for space for our small carry on backpacks.

We take off at daylight. Its going to be a long day, but the Veuling cabin staff are the best looking girls of any planes I’ve been on for a while, so I try not to sleep.

No passport checks in Prague, we’re in the EU, we opt not to take Uber and get done over by an independent taxi, he had a taxi sign and we were ushered to him by a supervisor but price was more than Uber show on their all. Lesson learned. From now on Uber or Bolt for taxis.

We drop our bags at the apartment offices (350m walk from our apartment) have an over priced breakfast, watch the Astromical Clock do its thing, walk over Charles Bridge with the seething heaving crowd, jeez its busy here, to a park on the river. The autumn leaves are falling, the breeze is cool, pleasant away from the hot sun on Charles Bridge.

However, I’m  looking forward to 3pm when we can get into the apartment, 4am seems a long time ago. Despite the crowds, Prague is a beautiful city.

Oh, nearly forgot, a Slovacian chap I met while sitting at a park bench on the river tells me its Czech Bank Holiday ( play on words that one!) So everybody is enjoying a warm long weekend. F….g hope they’re all back at work and off the streets tomorrow.

*Note to Pauolo – Prague is much more prone to charlatans and rip off merchants than Spain, be careful Pauolo, don’t trust the buggers.

Our apartment is in the Jewish Quarter, it’s building is Mordecai Twelve. 5th floor, lift to the 4th, The N is spewing, busting for the toilet, but after the Mechanic breaks the code, we’re in.

It’s a loft, 2 bedrooms 1 bathroom, modern in an old building, it’ll do for the next 3 days.

Ciao from Praha, Czech Republic

Pauolo