Vienna to Prague

Our brief sojurn into the Czech Republic was in conjunction with a tour sold by REI. As with many of their foreign tours, this was subcontracted to a Czech tour group. The Czech company was able to bring their bus into Vienna to meet us. We began with dinner the evening before we began our ride.

 

Una stands by the pile of luggage accumulated in the lobby of the Vienna hotel as we wait to be picked up by the Czech bus that will take us out of Vienna where we begin riding.

The bus is quite fancy with a television set for viewing cassettes as well as an espresso machine. Neither of which were ever used. The young man in profile is one of our leaders. We called him Mic as he assured us that we didn't want to remember his name as pronounced in Czech. The two leaders were college students and the driver who was slightly older was a professional bus driver. He was definitely a pro as proven by the small amount of space through which he could navigate the bus.

 

 

Lunch is served most days at a pleasant spot along the road. The leaders provided folding chairs so that we never had to sit on the ground. We only had a table to sit around if we were at a public picnic area such as this.

The group did not ride from Vienna to Prague. Instead, we were bused to areas which were deemed to be more scenic or historic in nature and then we rode segments of the route. We were driven to the south eastern area of the Czech Republic and proceeded to Prague in a zig zag fashion.