Pit stop in Prague

The drive from Vienna to Prague should only have taken around three and a half hours, so we had loaded as much as possible into the car the night before ready for an early start. The aim was to get to the outskirts of Prague around lunchtime and spend the afternoon in the city. However, the weather was against us and most of the drive was in thick fog. Although we didn’t get to Prague until 3 o’clock in the afternoon, I was still determined that Racheal and Summer should get a glimpse of this beautiful city.

We parked near a Metro station on the west of the city and made the short journey to the centre. We emerged in Wenceslas Square as the sun was setting. A large Christmas tree, Christmas market stalls and lights made it seem magical.

We made our way through the streets to the famous astronomical clock which was surrounded by more Christmas market stalls, another Christmas tree and a nativity scene.

So far the prices at the markets had, on the whole, been very expensive but the Prague markets were much more reasonable. A little shopping was done before we stopped for a cup of spiced apple juice and some chimney cake, a Czech specialty, while Racheal had her tea by a brightly lit angel!

We had to leave Prague too soon. This was just an overnight stop en route to Leipzig in Germany. Our accommodation for the night was a 20 minute drive from the Metro station, in the village of Unhöst. Advertised as a ‘tiny house’, it was much more spacious than we expected and somewhere we would love to have stayed longer if we’d had more time but the next day we were back in the car for the next leg of the journey.