Leaving our Krakow hotel at 9am this morning we had about 495km to ride. As this was a long ride by our standards, it was decided to use the freeways to get us to Prague, as we didn't want to arrive late. Routes were entered on the GPS and we set off. We were a bit confused when Chris turned right out of the hotel carpark as our GPS said to go left - but the rule is you follow the rider in the lead, so we followed. After about 30 minutes of country roads and no sign of the freeway we pulled over to check the route. We were officially lost - no freeway anywhere near us! After several more stops to check the route we finally found the freeway just before 2pm. When we stopped for lunch at 2:15pm we discovered that we still had 385km to ride - it had taken us 5 hours and we were only 100km from our departure point. Somewhere during the afternoon after locating the freeway Chris disappeared in the distance and then it started to rain! So, the best laid plans sometimes do go very wrong! We stopped for dinner at a Maccas and finally arrived at our Prague hotel at 8:15pm to find that Chris was just sitting down to dinner, he had been at the hotel for about an hour.

We used Uber again the next morning to take us in to the city. We have visited Prague before but Chris had not so we did the usual Hop On Hop Off tour but this time included an hour cruise on the river.

Prague is the capital city of the Czech Republic and is nicknamed "the city of a Hundred Spires", the Vltava River flows through the middle of the city. The first bus trip took us around the outside of the city passing by St Cyril's Church where Greg told us about the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich during World War II and how the assassins met their end in the church - check out Google for the full story. We saw the National Museum, most of it is covered with scaffolding, at the end of Wenceslas Square (which is really a rectangle). Our trip took us passed both the main train station and the Florenc Bus Station both important sights as tourism is a main industry in the city. We stayed on the bus until we got to the stop for the Royal Castle. This 9th century castle has St Vitus' Cathedral right in the middle of the castle grounds. This Gothic Roman Catholic Cathedral is the third religious building on this site, the first dating back to 930AD, the present cathedral was started in 1344 but was not finally finished ultil 1929. We were lucky enough to see the guards marching by before they took up their post protecting the castle.

The boat cruise down the Vltava was next. This is an excellent way to get a great view of the beautiful city buildings and bridges. We sailed under the most notable bridge, Charles Bridge twice before returning to the dock. We then decided that a walk across the Charles Bridge was a must! The bridge is made of sandstone and is 515m long. The sides of the bridge are adorned with religious statues and the walkway was a mass of stalls selling lace, paintings and jewellery. After the bridge we found a restaurant for an early dinner complete with local Budweiser Bier. After dinner we continued our walk to the centre of the Old Town which is a medieval square surrounded by beautiful buildings and featuring the Astronomical Clock (also covered for restoration). Our last stop would be Wenceslas Square, the centre of the business district. This half-mile long street features the statue of St Wenceslas.

Our day in Prague finished, we headed back to the hotel to prepare for the Motorrad Grand Prix of Deutschland at The Sachsenring, our next stop.