Fine Print

Saturday saw the first harbinger of spring in Prague! For the first time in two months, the sun shone resplendently for an entire day. The final snowcastles from last week’s blizzard melted into the cobblestones and everyone in the entire city seemed giddy.

We couldn’t wait to spend every minute in the precious sunlight. Lindsay had a book that would lead us along a hop on/hop off tram 22 tour of the city and tell us about everything along the way. All day long we basked in the sunshine—from the National Theatre to the Victims of Communism Memorial to the Lennon Wall, we laughed like children and felt as if we were seeing the city anew, falling in love all over again.  

It was the perfect day, until Lindsay looked down and realized her phone was missing. Assuming she must’ve left it on the tram, we used the Find My iPhone app to track it down. We felt like we were in a high intensity spy movie as we split up to track down the phone; Lindsay and Kat at home refreshing the tracking device while the rest of us sprinted past backpack laden tourists and elated, pink cheeked locals on the metro escalators.

We never found the phone. What we did find, returning to our guidebook a few hours later, was a small caveat at the bottom: “Be hyperaware of your surroundings on the 22 trams as thieves and pickpockets are more abundant here than anywhere else in the city.” Noted.

Bustling Charles Bridge

Love Locks in Lesser Town