Bye Bye Prague, Hello Vienna!

It’s been almost 11 weeks since we’ve stayed in a mixed dorm with strangers at a hostel (the last time was Edinburgh, which I have yet to write about), but today it’s back to hostel living with strangers again!  Fortunately, our roommates are two totally normal and easy to get along with Australian girls that we have stuff in common with, the room is comfortable and spacious, and we even have an en-suite bathroom.  It’s not the best hostel we’ve stayed at on this trip (wi-fi doesn’t work in the room), but we can’t complain too much

Yesterday, we spent our last day in Prague exploring the Jewish quarter and searching for the eurodog again.  Although we managed to find a stand that sold eurodogs close to our hotel, we ordered the XL hot dogs because I was hungry and wanted to see how big it would be, and they turned out to not be served in the baguette with the hole in it (presumably because it’s too big to fit in the baguette which is tiny).

 This morning, on our way to the train station, we finally got our eurodogs by going back to the same place and pointing at the baguettes to order.  The XL hot dogs actually tasted better (the eurodogs use ordinary Oscar Mayer style wieners), but the baguette with a hole in it makes it easy to hold and eat, unlike with regular hot dog buns where your mustard and ketchup get squeezed out the other end as you bite.  Considering it’s just 15 Czech crowns (about 90 cents Canadian) each eurodog, it’s pretty darn good value!  The only thing I can think of that compares back home is the hot dogs at Ikea, but the eurodog is a bit better.

Like most travel days on this trip, after we found our way to the hostel and checked in, we didn’t do much.  The hostel (Wombats the Base) is close to a fairly large main street called Mariahilfer Straße, which has quite a few places to eat.  We picked a fast food chicken place at random and got a chicken cordon blue (which is apparently a popular dish that’s available almost everywhere in Vienna) and a tasty skewer of meat called Adana with rice.  Compared to the food we had in Prague, the stuff here seems tastier and better value so far!   But it’s only the first night so we’ll see how our dining experiences pan out tomorrow…