Day 11 - Heading Home PRG - LHR - JFK

After a nice breakfast and morning finishing up souvenir shopping around on the Castle side of the river in Prague, we tried three ATM's before we actually got some extra Czech money for tram fare to the PRG airport. Carol had the misfortune yesterday morning of having an older male store clerk be rude to her, saying "your English is not good", "I don't like your English".  We found communication to be difficult with a few older people we met in Prague. Prague was definitely a mix of people from all over the world as you heard a lot of Russian being spoken in addition to many other languages. There was an amazing number of Japanese and Chinese visitors too, mainly traveling in tour groups.

It was a short walk downhill from our hotel to the tram that took us to the bus that took us right to the airport. We couldn't get the ticket machine to work so had to just hop aboard the right tram. It took about an hour to get to the airport and we were way early for our flight. We tried checking into taking an earlier flight to London, but that didn't work out.

The weather was nice as it's been all week in Prague with sun and temps in the 70's.  You can see aerial pics of the large fields of the yellow Rape that they raise throughout Europe for bio-fuel, as well as some shots of downtown Prague as we departed.

The weather was nice in Heathrow as we arrived and I saw from the air what looked like a pond where teams would practice their team rowing. I thought Bruce Andrew would find this interesting.

After much walking through the airport we arrived with time to spare for our NYC departure. The plane left right on time at 7PM and we had a strong tailwind "across the pond", getting us into JFK about 45 minutes early. We needed this extra time as we then made it fairly quickly through Customs and Border Control and claimed our bags.  We hopped on the AirTrain to the Jamaica stop where we then jumped on the E Subway line and after a pretty long ride made it to the Broadway, 42nd Street and Times Square area. It only cost about $8.75 per person to get to the hotel. We had to do a lot of unnecessary walking it seemed to get oriented and find our hotel above ground and we immediately began snapping pics.

Even though it was after 11PM at night, with all the lighted video sign and billboards, it was like mid-day and people were swarming everywhere. We were happy to get to our room and then go out for a few minutes walking and taking in all things happening in and around Times Square then close to 1AM on Friday.

View from our hotel just above......

Of course I found fascinating that the Naked Cowboy, now a Times Square landmark, was out performing and promoting himself at near midnight too.

We got up at 5AM and decided to get going for the day. We could see the people crowding up already for the taping of what I guess is the Today Show in Times Square right from our hotel window.

Things are a bit pricey at the hotel. An order of pancakes for instance is $21, a bowl of hot oatmeal is $10 and a fruit plate is $18. So NY is living up to it's high cost billing.