The countdown begins

Monday, May 19, 2014

   Since our trip is coming to the end, we had to start preparing for our westward journey. I have spent quite a bit of time online planning our trip to France and Ireland. It turns out that one cannot purchase a train ticket all the way to Normandy. We would have to buy the ticket from Prague to Munich from the Czech Railways, Munich to Paris from the German Railways and Paris to Caen (which was initially our destination in Normandy) from French Railways. In the end I decided that we would buy our ticket from Munich to Paris at the railway station in Kladno as I was unable to get 4 beds (the kids travel free and therefore the online system was not assigning them a bed). We also decided to wait to purchase the rest of the tickets until we bought the night train tickets. 

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

   We stopped at the railway station to purchase the tickets from Munich to Paris. The lady at the counter did not have access to any better information than what I found online but at least she could print the ticket before paying and see if it is what we needed. Online, I would not be able to see the ticket and assigned beds until after it was paid for and after that the ticket was non-refundable, non-exchangeable.  After much looking, it turned out that the easiest way to get tickets for all 4 of us in a single cabin was to pay for 4 adult tickets. 

   Once we had our ticket, we went to the pool for the last swim before we leave the Czech Republic.

When we got back to babi’s apartment, I went back online to finish the rest of our train reservations. By the end of the day we had tickets all the way to Caen in north of France and a hotel for 2 nights in Caen.