Prague Blog #3 - Random Stuff

I came early to Prague so I could adjust to the time change before I joined the group on the 11^th.  (I’m starting a MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults since I am working on my own YA sci-fi (light) series and the summer residencies are in different parts of the world each year.)

Bathroom

I found my current hotel online with great reviews and have really enjoyed it.  http://www.hotel-imperial.cz   I pre-paid and got a great deal so I am sure I’m in one of the smaller rooms but it is   It is the size of a NYC hotel room.  However the bathroom is awesome  (I want one just like it back home), bed and pillow comfortable, and the decorations for the whole room fit well it their Art Deco theme.   I would totally stay here again.

Since I have to meet the group tomorrow, I figured I’d finally better look up the hotel and see how far away it was to get an idea of how long a taxi ride it would be.  I looked at the map on that hotel’s website and thought, “Gee, that street looks like the one that I’m on right now. And, is that the mall I went to today on the hotel map?”  Well, it turns out that the other hotel is a block away.  Seriously.  Not even a big block.  The distance I had to walk from my car to my office this past year was three or four times as far as the distance to the new hotel.  I laughed when I looked at the schedule and realized we’re eating dinner tomorrow night at my current hotel! (I wonder if they’ll serve that same bacon for dinner…)

Tomorrow I’ll just need to figure out how to lug all my stuff a block on cobblestones.  It wasn’t too bad dragging it all around at an airport with smooth surfaces but uneven paths aren’t quite the same thing.  I plan on doing two trips…one with my huge bag and another with the other stuff.  I went into the other hotel’s lobby this evening and double-checked to make sure that I hadn’t misread the address.  Sure enough, it was the right hotel.  They have a luggage storage area so I can put my bag there even if I can’t check in right away.

I walked into a variety of shops this evening.  Didn’t buy anything but figured I’d come back at another time to explore some of them more in detail.  Also found an interesting trio of food places in a food court nearby.  I’m going to try one of them for lunch tomorrow  (a Japanese place and a Mexican plan…can’t remember the third one.) Yum!

All my Google stuff was in Czech...
until I found the option to make it in English.
Wikipedia also was in Czech until I made that change.

Not so random thing I Googled today – How to dry an iPhone when you don’t have rice.  So, in spite of the awesomeness of the bathroom, it has one of those glass doors that doesn’t go all the way across.  The door basically just blocks the brunt of the shower water but still leaves the rest of the (huge) tub opened to the bathroom.  Anyway, I placed my iPhone face down last night on an area that got a little wet and didn’t realize it until I picked it up later.  It still works but there are water spots inside the panel now.   I showed the person at the Apple store today but he said I'd have to send it in for repair.  Let's hope that it didn't get totally soaked.