10/07 - Tues - We packed our bags and checked out of our hotel bright and early this morning so we could take the metro over to the Spanish Riding School to watch the morning training session for the Lipizzan stallions. The tickets cant be purchased in advance so we wanted to get there when the box office opened at 9:00. We got there a bit after 9:00 but in plenty of time to get tickets. This was not the formal show, but still very interesting and full of ritual. They had four or five different sessions with five riders and horses in each session. Some of the riders repeated and it appeared to us that the smallest rider, a young lady, was given the toughest horses. She was amazing. I couldnt help but think of my parents - my dad who grew up with a teamster dad with work horses and who loved to attend Fryeburg Fair and visit the horse people, and my mom who used to ride a horse to school ,and then me, who knows nothing about horses at all! Back to the hotel to pick up the car and we were off to Bratislava so we could say we went to Slovakia. Sometimes the bast laid plans....... Well, the navigator couldnt get us there and before he/I knew it, we were on our way to Prague and the Czech Republic. We didnt feel too bad since that was our plan in the first place. We got on the correct road, but they were doing road work about every twenty miles, so we would go like crazy and then sit in traffic for a while. Oh, well, road trips sometimes have these glitches! We finally arrived at Family Hotel Okor just outside Prague. This is a small inn with parts of it dating to the 1400s. Rose checked us in, showed us to our rooms and then waited on us for dinner. Shes great! She wasnt sure about one of our questions so she asked one of her regulars to come over and help us out. He was very helpful, too! Its interesting how you can have a bit of a frustrating day and then meet up with some fantastic people and your day is changed right around. Of course some food and drink helps, too! :)
Posted on: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 20:40:19 +0000
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