We got a good start and headed off to the Prague; our next stop. We will make our way there and spend a week in the area. The border crossing into the Czech Republic was by no means hard, it just was just a far different process than we have seen so far. We are not sure if it was the route we took or not but although the number of small villages that we were passing through along the way were as plentiful as Germany the villages certainly looked a lot poorer. The entire infrastructure just seemed to look beat up. Also we must have passed 20 old factories in small towns that were abandoned. The landscape was rolling much like the foothills in Alberta. We didn’t have a long journey today, maybe we just didn’t get lost as much it seems but we made it to Prague quickly. The quarter where we are staying is called Brevnov. There are about 1.2 million people in the Prague area, Brevnov is about a 15minute trolley ride from the old town. The person who owns this building where we are staying kept talking about how modern his building is. It was built in 1890. It is a fairly large building where his family and 2 others live, plus the apartment where we are staying. It is directly across the road from a Benedictine Monastery that was built in 989 AD. It is the oldest Monastery in the Czech Republic, more on that later. For now we will just settle in to our new place and start to get oriented with the city.
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