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Oct 30, 2018 17:42:01 GMT
Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2018 17:42:01 GMT
Oh FFS, that's awful. Get your coat and get out.
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Oct 30, 2018 19:57:49 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2018 19:57:49 GMT
Did you really expect anything better from Humph?
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Prague
Oct 30, 2018 20:15:05 GMT
Post by Humph on Oct 30, 2018 20:15:05 GMT
I can do worse than that if you want? 😜
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Rob
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Oct 31, 2018 0:47:30 GMT
Post by Rob on Oct 31, 2018 0:47:30 GMT
It will be easier than my first visit - but yes cold.
I have a long tale from 1990 starting with crossing from Germany into no mans land late at night. The 'research' by the others was (a) is the border open 24 hours - YES, (b) can you buy the Visa on the border - YES. Question not asked was can you buy the visas 24x7 - answer NO. So we crossed, got delayed by Czech side and then eventually let return to Germany.... and then they wanted to know why.
Then you couldn't book hotels in 1990 - had to go to the tourist info. It got more surreal and I'm sure we nearly got robbed. The others agreed to go for cheap apartment and the bloke outside tourist info was in our car and sweating and didn't know the way. We threw him out in the end and went back to tourist information.
Some cracking illegal money transfer rates on the street back then. Cheapest beer was about 18p a pint I think too.
Been back since and it was more expensive of course.
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Alanović
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Oct 31, 2018 9:04:14 GMT
Post by Alanović on Oct 31, 2018 9:04:14 GMT
Ah the chaos of crumbling Communism. Lived it back in the USSR and your tale is a familiar one Rob. My favourite memory is hailing a taxi outside the Intourist hotel at 3am one morning after some refreshing hard currency purchased beverages. Taxi (Volga, natch) swerves towards the kerb and stops at 45 degrees. Driver gets out, throws the keys at us, slumps on the bonnet and tells us we can drive it as he's too pissed. We declined the offer and awaited the next "knight of the road".
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