{"id":6082,"date":"2026-09-22T21:09:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T03:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/?p=6082"},"modified":"2026-10-03T21:42:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T03:42:25","slug":"munchen-day-5-praha-day-1-a-really-old-train-and-a-really-new-funicular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2026\/09\/munchen-day-5-praha-day-1-a-really-old-train-and-a-really-new-funicular\/","title":{"rendered":"M\u00fcnchen Day 5 \/ Praha Day 1: A Really Old Train…and a Really New Funicular"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Guten Morgen! Off to our next adventure!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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We arrived in Prague around 4:30pm on a really old train (sorry, no photos showing how old the train actually was). Apparently the train company, called “Alex”, buys national carriers’ old discarded cars. Luckily we were able to get a compartment to ourselves for most of the journey. The scenery was beautiful during the 6 hour trip.<\/p>\n

We are in a really cool AirBnB just a few hundred meters south of the Prague Castle, and a few tens of meters from the US Embassy (not on purpose)…we used this evening to go exploring the neighborhood.<\/p>\n

We enjoyed traditional Czech food with Pilsner Urquell at a restaurant up the street, and while we were waiting for our dinners we learned a nearby funicular at a park that had been closed for two years had their grand reopening<\/a> today and was running until 10:15pm.<\/p>\n

So after dinner (and ice cream in a chimney cake — a flaky cinnamon bread rolled into an ice cream cone), we headed over to the funicular station. We loved the nighttime views of Prague Castle and the Charles Bridge going up and down the track, but from the top of the hill, all you could see were trees and this old wall that encircled the observation area.<\/p>\n

Excited to visit Prague Castle tomorrow!<\/p>\n

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Funicular selfie!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Coming into the Prague Main train station, a view through some dirty windows….<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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This dome in the train station was gorgeous!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Walking towards dinner. We are staying around the corner from the U.S. Embassy. Hopefully we don’t need their services on this visit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Beer braised beef goulash. It was amazing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Grilled sausages and sauerkraut. Each of the sausages were different and one of them was quite “paprika-ey”.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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“Chimney cake”, hard to explain…it’s a flaky bread baked on a cylindrical thing so you could fill it with ice cream.\u00a0 See the video below to see how the cones are made:<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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