On Friday, I woke up early and met up with my tour group for breakfast at the hostel restaurant. This tour is 9 days through some Eastern European countries - Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Croatia - with a company called Busabout. This tour is pretty different from the contiki tour that I did back in March. It's a very small tour group (only 19 people on a 50 seat bus). Also, Busabout must be geared towards a slightly older age group; Contiki was mostly e...

Day 2: Yesterday, I did another walking tour. This one went up the hill to Prague castle. The previous day I had done a city tour and a beer tour with the same guide, so we became buddies by the end of this third tour. The castle and the surrounding buildings are very beautiful. There are a lot of beautiful aristocratic palaces, and also tiny little colourful houses. It also helped that the weather was beautiful, making the panoramic view of the city that much m...

Getting to Prague: On Monday, I arrived at the bus station in Vienna to catch my bus to Prague. I was about an hour early, so I sat in the waiting area. There was a TV there showing coverage of flooding. Once I realised that the headline was from Czech Republic I got a bit nervous! There was wifi on the bus, so I emailed the hostel owner asking how bad the flooding was in Prague, and he assured me that all was fine - the hostel was still open and accessible and ...