We had one day in Prague before our flight home. It was raining in the morning and predicted to rain all day. The first thing we did after breakfast was pack our bikes. We count ourselves lucky that the hotel kept our boxes for us. We visited a local bike shop at the start of the trip when we purchased chain lube and air cartridges, and they had no bike boxes. It seemed like finding boxes would have been difficult, and getting them to the hotel in the rain it would have been unfun.
Ed had to make repairs to his bike box. One end was badly chewed up on the flight over. Spare cardboard and a lot of packing tape patched it up. We gave the rest of our chain lube (prohibited on flights) to a man from Israel we met on the train who was about to start a cycling adventure of his own. We left our air cartridges in the small garage for the next cyclists. While we were packing we ran into an Austrian couple who were gathering their bikes from the garage to take the train for a day rather than ride in the rain. After we packed our bikes and grabbed our duffel bag we were set for the airport the next day.
We had planned a walking tour of the little town side of Prague, but it was so wet and cold that we took a tram over and toured inside a palace. There were some good paintings, antique musical instruments, and original music scores from Beethoven and Mozart. Much had been looted and recovered and many of the buildings we saw had been rebuilt after multiple wars.
We went to a warm cafe for lunch, then walked through the castle complex and another art gallery (less good), then we hopped a tram to return to our hotel. There were lots of tour groups out in the rain.
We had a quiet dinner in a cafe in the back of the Globe Bookstore, close to our hotel. Our airport ride comes at 9am.
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