Travelling to Prague

Karen and Maciej(I'm writing) made it to Prague safely.

Our journey started out by driving from Arlington to Deer Park on Wednesday morning. The drive was good and quick. No traffic or cops. We ate some yummy eggplant parm Maciej's Mom made for dinner and then left for JFK.

Our first flight from JFK to Venice was ok. The bad things: annoying out of control kid in front of us and they ran out of pasta meal. The flight was on Delta. This isn't the first time I've flown them. All I can say after this flight is that they still stink. No wonder American airlines are having problems. But it was the cheapest flight at the time we booked.

From Venice to Prague our flight was on Czech Airlines(CZA). Getting to the connection gate was a huge pain. When we got off the plane we followed signs for transfers. But by the door that said transfers, there was no one there. There was a huge long line to go through passport control. So we sat by the door waiting for someone to show up and watched the passport line move along. Eventually we got on the passport line when it was short and asked where to go to transfers. On the other side of the airport was the same kind of door but with a security dude. We tried explaining we had no boarding pass and asked where to get one. He scanned our bags and waved us through. Now we were in gates area without a pass. So we asked at a gate that had a person working what to do. The lady said we need to go out of gates area and get our pass. The lady working the check in desk also checked our luggage was being transferred ok. So we did and got our boarding passes and went through security again. We got some gelatto, walked around the shops and then sat by the gate trying to stay awake. The plane was delayed a little bit. The flight was in a prop plane. It was fine.

We landed and went to get our bags. We stood by the baggage conveyor belt for awhile. No bags. Maciej went over to the CZA baggage area and asked about the bags. The CZA person couldn't say where the bags were, probably still in Venice. She said they would be delivered to the apartment when they arrived. Great. No clean underwear. No toothbrush.... But Karen did pack the plug converter in her carry-on so we can use our laptop from the apartment! Yeah!

We were picked up from the airport by a hired taxi. The ride was great. The area and other cars remind Maciej of Poland. The driver took a route through all kinds of streets in Prague so we got to see some parts of the city. He dropped us off in front of our apartment.

Our total trip time from Arlington to Prague was 23 hours!