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To finish the story of our Grand Central European Tour:

 

Jake and I spent two days in Frydlant, and our last few hours were spent with Mark and a few other missionaries at  a restaurant in a nearby town celebrating Mark’s birthday. We had such a good time! Mark is hilarious, and when he and Jake are in the same room the joy is palpable.  Mark dropped Jake and I off at the train station and we took a train to Ostrava and then to Olomouc, a city Jake had never been too. We had booked a hostel in Olomouc that afternoon via the internet, but as we would be arriving at 1:30 am we weren’t quite certain if everything would pan out like we had planned in our minds. We arrived in Olomouc at 1:15 after a very pleasant journey, and decided to take a taxi. On the hostel’s website it said the a taxi ride from the train station to the hostel costs 100 Kc, and the ride cost 96 Kc. I noticed the driver had a cross hanging from the rear view mirror. Outside the building the hostel was in, a very nice Australian man was waiting for us. He took us four flights up to the hostel and gave us the best room in the place for the price of the dorm. The room even had a beautiful view of the city skyline. God was definitely helping us out that night!

I found Olomouc to be a very nice city with some beautiful cathedrals, a lot of students, and few tourists. Also, Jake found some awesome shoes there!  We took an afternoon train back to Prague (which was 90 minutes late) and rolled back into the capital later that evening. Ah, what a wonderful trip it was :)