Viking River Cruise

October 6 - 7, 2015

Viking River Cruise - celebrating our 40th Anniversary!

Thanks, Ari, for taking us to the airport to begin our journey!  We met Teri and Alan for Starbucks to toast our upcoming trip.  We departed on Air France around 1745 hours for a smooth flight to Paris. After a short layover, we boarded Czech Airlines for Prague.  We safely arrived, but one small suitcase was AWOL.  Viking Cruise Lines whisked us away to our lovely Hilton Hotel centrally located in downtown Prague.  After a short briefing, the Viking Rep, David, suggested an awesome restaurant for lunch, Kvul.  The exchange rate is $1.00 = 24 K.  Food is extremely delicious and very reasonably priced.  After lunch, we stopped for a much needed coffee break, as our jet lag was setting in, at Costa's - the European equivalent to Starbucks.  Since my workout clothing was in the AWOL luggage, a nap took the place of exercise.  Rob decided to stay in the hotel for dinner since he was still full from lunch, so Alan, Teri, and I headed off to a Fodor's/Viking recommended restaurant, Lokal. The restaurant was excellent and the prices were WAY below stateside meals.  We enjoyed watching all the locals at the Lokal while enjoying a delicious dinner.  We've just been notified that our Viking ship, the Ingvi is being replaced by the Angsvan due to the low waters on the Danube. The new ship is "state of the art" so we're not complaining.  Meanwhile, we anxiously awaiting tomorrow's tour of Prague.