Prague, Czech: Alchemy, New Friends and Green Magic
Welcome to CompassChaos13(CC13): A Real Travel Podcast where Compass Plans, Chaos Rules - Connections Happen Memories of Global Adventures
HEATHER (V.O.): I’m Heather, your adventure narrator and warm body for the hosts for this flying circus.
Today, we’re diving into PRAGUE, CZECH REPUPLIC, with MOM!
COMPASS: It started with what was supposed to be a short city tour.
CHAOS: And ended with us smoking a joint with our new friends by the end of the night.
HEATHER (V.O.): Before we depart on this adventure, a few safety checks. First: any brand we mention is one we actually use and trust. We get zero monetary gain for these—if that ever changes, we promise total transparency. Second: this flight is for adults only. Expect questionable language and emotional turbulence. Finally, there are no warnings when the unexpected happens, because there are no warnings in real life…
HEATHER (V.O.): Now, let’s Meet your dueling hosts: Compass, the one who plans—and Chaos, the one who burns them. Together, they find the magic in the mess.
COMPASS (V.O.): I’m Compass. My plan is to experience the top tourist things. But, as always, my head-space companion Chaos has other plans. .
CHAOS: Hey Hey Chaos here! I am the patron saint of "we’ll figure it out,". I bring the unexpected, and the reason you want to hear travel tales.. that are actually worth listening to!
COMPASS (V.O.): Together, we bring the connection.
HEATHER (V.O.): Sit back, relax, and push that subscribe button……
CHAOS: "So, buckle up buttercups, for this recent tale of new friends and green magic……, because honestly the best stories aren't planned."
COMPASS: We were already 4 days into our mom & daughter adventure of 2024 with just 1 month left to our handfasting date. Stressed, nope all we wanted was a cookout that we didn’t have to cook… and thanks to our mom that was taken care of.
CHAOS: The only worry for me today was how could I successfully blow up Compass’ perfectly laid sightseeing plans.
COMPASS: Which is everyday… WE left Nuremberg later than what I had allotted, this was supposed to a 4 hours tour to break up the drive to see the Nuremberg trail court house.
CHAOS: At least we weren’t on a boat!
COMPASS: We had arrived in Prague later than planned after also dropping the car rental back off at the Prague airport and taxing to the hotel. We cheeked into the hotel and I received a message from the tour guide for our 9 day tour of Central European Capitals with Exoticca Tours, saying he would meet us at the airport. Apparently no one in the office communicated that we would be getting ourselves to the hotel since we were already in the area. We messaged him back saying we just got to the hotel we had been in Europe for days already.
CHAOS: Isn’t that most of the travel companies? It drove you nuts that departments didn’t talk to each other until there was an issue. {giggle] I do Love those fireworks!
COMPASS: 98% of the time your are the on behind the lighting of the fuse
CHAOS: [giggles] … Fire is not just for survival… sometimes it’s an S.O.S. .. sometimes its a do over…. As long as innocent lives aren’t lost.
COMPASS: Why do I even interact with you?
CHAOS: [signing] because you love me…. But really I think you have serious case of Mrs. Fix It Personality Disorder…. I think it’s cute you keep trying … we all need someone that doesn’t give up on us…. Even if it is just an imaginary voice in a human’s head.
COMPASS: Maybe we SHOULD go back to looking for a psychologist again…
CHAOS: is that the one that gives the good meds?
COMPASS: No! You know Heather won’t take aspirin for a headache..
CHAOS: Not true… When we both are acting up she pops two Aleve and smokes a joint [giggles]
COMPASS: I knew there was a reason for this memory…. You implied to Heather & I that this was the hunt for real Absinthe as the “green magic”
CHAOS: There is that word again…. “Implied” … @ some point Compass, you & transport should really take the time to go over this word with me in pictorials… cause I just don’t understand it. You asked which one, when I said the Prague story… the first night when we made friends and were looking for green magic…. There was no follow up questions
COMPASS: The way you made it sound was that green magic was our hunt for true absinth…
CHAOS: [Harsh reality voice] Listen… it is not my problem if you thought one thing when I was speaking about another… that is on you to have follow up questions if things are not clear or to make sure you are on the same page with me. That clearly sounds like a Compass problem….
COMPASS: While you may have a valid point… You’re still a an asshole
CHAOS: I prefer Bitch, if you please… Happy you still love me! MAUH!!
COMPASS: Back to the story it’s to late to fight about this now…
CHAOS: [giggles]... So where were you? Ah right Prague we just checked into our hotel.
COMPASS: By the time we got there after the rest of the group… the tour guide Teo messaged us again advising us he would meet us in the lobby of the hotel the following morning for the start of the city tour at 8am. Not having dinner yet, mom and us walked the surrounding area of the hotel looking for a place to eat dinner. Since it was dark we stayed to the main street our hotel was on with high foot traffic and cars. **TIP: Woman a few travel rules:
Never wear jewelry aboard… anything shiny real or fake invites chaos…
Always keep your cell, cash, cards & ID’s in your bra… Let them take the adventure bag
Most valuable rule if possible, take self-defense classes. Better to know and not need than need an not know.
CHAOS: Our boobs are always much bigger when we travel [giggles]... another reason to travel if you belong to the itty bitty titty committee…
COMPASS: So classless… so the following day waking up and having a decent breakfast in us we went to the lobby of the hotel to met the rest of the group and the escort for the tour..
CHAOS: We met 3 woman and the local tour guide in our lobby. We introduce ourselves … honestly the only one I remember is from our group is Patricia from Nebraska… she has been to some incredible places….
COMPASS: Focus
CHAOS: As we chatted with Patricia the rest of the tour group came walking up…[sound ohhh lalala, snotty] they were staying at a higher end hotel…
COMPASS: Once the tour group was assembled the local tour guide took over the group of about 15 or so… she was great.. As we walked the city it started out a bit drizzly, but ended up being sunny and hot, she gave us the history of Prague which means a very Waterdown history of the Hapsburgs 400 year reign.
CHAOS: On no you don’t!
COMPASS: What?
CHAOS: This is not a history podcast…. You are not going into the 400 year or even a Compass over the Hapsburgs Regin. Not even as background…
COMPASS: I… Whatever…
CHAOS: It was the perfect amount of relative history… Meaning Compass that the history is only given as background when it goes with what you are seeing. Not just spewing history when it has no bearing on anything. Know your audience..
COMPASS: Speaking of knowing your audience I’m sure ours would lie to continue on with the story.
CHAOS: Our city tour began at 8am from the lobby of the hotel. Roaming all over Prague we saw the Black Tower, The Opera House, Charles bridge, it was amazing. There is something Imperial with a hint of darkness it the air of Prague, I can’t describe it. .. Everywhere you look an alleyway beacons to be explored… but when you are one of the sheep….
COMPASS: We were following the tour guide….
CHAOS: While Andrea, the local tour guide, she was so cute… probably not mor than 5’5” brown hair brown eyes and kept apologizing for her English. …. Which we understood perfectly.
COMPASS: She was sweet and loves her heritage and is soft spoken… it was a small group but we had to huddle around the tiny woman just to hear her. I can’t believe you Remember her name!
CHAOS: Please! She was so cute how could we not… listening to her didn’t matter to you, you knew that history and kept running commentary for mom and a few others that had some trouble understanding her… you were in your glory.
COMPASS:[proudly] I was enjoying myself.. Yes… I enjoy talking about the Astronomical Clock, when it was built it was the first of its kind, and became so popular that other countries sought to duplicate it and you know you love the dark legends behind it.
CHAOS: I do but I don’t need to tell it before the guide does… As Andrea led us sheep towards the Charles Bridge, there was an actual silence to the herd that allowed me to try to visualize what Prague would have been like at the turn of the 15th / 16th centuries, after Rudolph II made Prague the capital of the Holy Roman Empire.
COMPASS: Aaahhh…. You love I cause of the occults, alchemy, magic and other dark skills…
CHAOS: Naturally… My name says it all! [excited] I don’t know if I told you this Compass… So in the wonderful silence, as I looked around while we walked this pedestrian alley, I was thinking about how this alley would have been muddy stones, sporadic tables with goods being haggled over, and how the people would dress in common wool clothes of the period… When I look to the left as we continued walking I swear to the Goddess' old and new that I either saw death or an executioner of the past. It was taller than any other person that was in transports eye shot… in the background was a yellow building which ended up having an art installation of the “hanging-man’ on the upper corner of it… The figure I saw was in a dark greyish hooded cloak. I thought we walked on to a movie set or we were being punk’d or some shit… There was no face, no eyes, no outline to speak of… just nothing wrapped in a robe. There were modern people mom was right on our 9… I couldn’t see if it had feet, all I could see was a hood, shoulders, and upper chest… I looked @ mom to see her reaction… nothing… she was looking straight, the alley was narrow she had to see it…. Nope…
COMPASS: SHIT! Heather & I were wonder if you were going to tell this part of the story after re=living Dachau…
CHAOS: What?! [sounding hurt] You both SAW IT too and didn’t tell me! Pretended at the time that I was crazy….. Asking me what I smoked, when you knew dam well that I haven’t in a week…
COMPASS: [sound like a mom to a child] Okay I am going to go over this 1 more time with you, only because I drew that short straw….. I am a voice….. Right?
CHAOS: Okay I don’t see..
COMPASS: aaa.a.aaaahhh… Not done… you are a voice correct?
CHAOS: [fustrated] I don’t see what this has to do with you tow not telling me….
COMPASS: Everything! I am only a voice, you are only a voice,... Heather is more than just limbs and a mouth… she is everything… which means if you saw it…. I saw it, she saw it… See where I am going with this?
CHAOS: Okay…. So Heather has a voice to talk that she uses to speak, correct?
COMPASS: [frustrated] Yes
CHAOS: [calm] You have a voice that you use all the time correct?
COMPASS: Not all the time but yes…
CHAOS: I have a voice that I use, and a majority want silenced correct?
COMPASS: Goddess’ yes!
CHAOS: My point, Thank you! .. why didn’t you both use your words & voices to tell me that you saw that figure as well?
COMPASS: Honestly Chaos sometimes you don’t need validation… I’m sorry.
CHAOS: [angry] Shove your fake SORRY up transports ass…. Let’ s get back to the story shall we Global Kin…. So as I find myself betrayed by my own…
COMPASS: This podcast is making you forget your place..
CHAOS: Know your own place before you trying to put someone else’s in theirs… You’re not the physical one of the bunch Compass, you are the law and I the enforcer remember that…. There is no court or judge here…. Though we do have several voices to form a jury pool… to select from as long as we don’t discriminate because we don’t speak their language but they speak ours.
COMPASS: [through teeth] Back to the story please
CHAOS: Betrayed we followed our shepherd Andrea for another hour and half… Just having finished hearing about Lennon Wall and standing in this little square with mom @ our 9 again…
COMPASS: Say left… just say left…
CHAOS: But that is not how we travel with mom…. You know its easier to yell 3, 6, or 9 instead on your whatever… anyway mom let’s out a “Ooooh Boy” and grabs our arm…
COMPASS: It was very frightening…. Mom’s face was ash white…
CHAOS: Yeah this is a woman who is the high priestess of the Temple of the Sun… She worshipped the sun so to see her go from a good toast color to white on rice…. It was a hair raising…
COMPASS: Our mom, who has worked in the medical field for over 30+ years, retiring just as soon as she got back from this trip. She looked like she was going down hard… she managed to right herself and whispered that she needed to go now… She needed food.
CHAOS: The tour was longer than if we did it alone…. As least we would have been able to grab a snack or pop into a cafe or something…. When your on tour some people don’t like to be rude…. Even it it means their health…
COMPASS: Well that is why we have you Chaos…. Rude or not it is what it is…
CHAOS: Well, when you are always expected to be the asshole, why disappoint. I have to live up to some expectations… As soon as mom whispered “we need to go now or I’m going to pass out”..... Da, Da, Da… Here I come to wreck your day…. As we lean mom against the pillar of a pretty cool bridge. I declared Marshall Law internally, … I controlled the body [laugh].... Walking right up to Andrea, I excused us, I wasn’t rude… I was just assertive… I told her our mom wasn’t feeling well she needed to eat and we were leaving…
COMPASS: Poor Andrea, the look on her face she asked us to hold on just a few more moments… she was finishing up… You said “Nope, we are leaving… it was a great tour Thank you… Here’s your tip”
CHAOS: See not rude…. Direct and to the point…. Assertive.
COMPASS: But was there the need to turn to the group and yell “Don’t forget to tip your guide” and then walk right through the middle of the group…. Poor Teo, our group escort, I’m sure he didn’t know what to think.
CHAOS: He was fine… He was probably thinking two less people I have to worry about till tomorrow… We had each other’s #’s…. Shit we still do!
COMPASS: After Chaos’ little side show, we grabbed mom who had a bit more color by now…
CHAOS: We broke from the herd…
COMPASS: Group
CHAOS: When you have a gathering of mammals its a herd…. And you can’t counter Compass cause I looked it up… Silence I’ll palm you. We didn’t get very far from the herd when we made mom stop.
COMPASS: Correction you made her stop to take photos of the water Demon goblin, troll whatever it was…
CHAOS: It was less than 30 seconds for the photo stop… If we didn’t stop we would not go back… so th stop. Besides you were yelling the whole time mom needs food.
COMPASS: She did need food… I wrestled control of Heather away from Chaos and started walking looking for a place to eat.
CHAOS: It didn’t take long.. We found a place called The Walled Pub… it was pretty fucking cool…. You walked down a corridor to the back where you can eat inside or out back in the hidden courtyard….. Prague in early September courtyard with a sangria pitcher was the way to go…
COMPASS: Mom didn’t need the Sangria, she needed food.
CHAOS: Actually she needed sugar fast… and with no OJ … this worked just as good… besides we ordered apps.. We wer hungry also.. Granted didn’t know how much till we smelled the food… MMMMMM… that chicken sandwich….
COMPASS: Your turn to wipe your drool..
CHAOS: The chicken was fresh… granted not as fresh as Cuba but I’m thinking not far off… Whatever the chicken was marinated in combined with the batter, a fresh roll soft with a nice crunch to match the lettuce….
COMPASS: Sidetracked… We had our fill of a great meal..
CHAOS: Mom got her color back and the Sangria gave us that boost that we needed to go it alone in Prague for the rest of the day and night… With a 2 hour tour that became a 4 hour tour we had a quick run down of the city.
COMPASS: That’s a very lose interpretation of run down… there were so many twists & turns I never used google maps so much in our lives…
CHAOS: I love that offline Blue Dot… Do we go this way….as you turn your phone to make the dot move… NOPE… oh maybe this way…… NOPE try again…. Oh we missed the turn, it’s behind us. We should name that game..
COMPASS: It’s already named…. It’s called Spot the [say fast like a slip] Target, I mean Tourist….
CHAOS: Did you say target? [giggles] Hit another nerve did we?
COMPASS: You know that I hate looking like a tourist. It makes us a target, especially when we travel alone or with other women. Any women traveling always needs to be on alert. That is just the world today, sad but true.
CHAOS: Okay…. So we encourage self-defense classes and continual real life practice… As we drained transports cell phone of its battery life, we finally found our next adventure, a ride on the Vltvav (VUL-ta-va) River…
COMPASS: Thankfully, see that word again…. I purchased the tickets ahead of time this one … Unlike Budapest, which your still on my shit list for.
CHAOS: Here’s a change for you…. Let me know when I’m OFF your shit list… cause that means I’m doing something all wrong…
COMPASS: I don’t think we will ever have to worry about that Chaos.
CHAOS: Me doing something wrong, oh I know that, but thanks for the validation. I wasn’t even looking for it.
COMPASS: Not what was meant and you it
CHAOS: oooohhhh…. Someone’s TESTY… but that is not what was said and it’s recorded … can we get back to to the memory please this is where we meet our 3 new friends. We found the boat that matched our tickets and on board we went.. On to the top deck climbed to grab prime seats… Front row view on a nice day, dam right.. Only thing missing drinks… We left mom to tend to the seats and bags as we went to get drinks.
COMPASS: We headed below deck, bought two drinks and went back to mom. It was a two hour afternoon tour, the boat didn’t seem packed at first. *TIP: The tourist boats leave from the same area, which is passed the River Cruise Boats such as Viking & Azamara. We always try for the last vendor on the pier.. Reason, usually less crowded with last minute add on’s and normally last boat to dock so the crowd from the other boats have dispersed already.
CHAOS: Make sure you are someone who likes to walk or you will hate us for this tip.. If you don’t like to walk just show your ticket to a taxi driver and they will take you.
COMPASS: Point… we do walk more on vacation than @ home..
CHAOS: I wonder who crams the schedule? I’m perfectly happy sitting @ a cafe drinking, stuffing our face and watching all the tourist find their inner Chaos.
COMPASS: Are you complaining?
CHAOS: No! I like watching people try to keep up with us, especially when you almost kill them and make it look like natural causes.. Come to think of it , it was poor Jay, before we even got to Cabo [giggles]....
COMPASS: They are never going to travel with us again..
CHAOS: [laughing] Can you blame them> You almost killed Jay… I, so you say, almost murdered the group…. And we never ensured where the money was going to go for anyone’s demise… of course we are bad friends! Never mind what happened @ the end of that trip the last night, HOLY SHIT, that was a whammy!
COMPASS: Okay squirrel, bring it back on track…
CHAOS: [laughing] Right sorry…. My bad… The first hour and half just mom and us enjoying the scenery and discussing her antics from earlier in the day…
COMPASS: Those weren’t antics! The Hell is the matter with you? Don’t answer that… She almost passed out because of her blood sugar dropping from not eating!
CHAOS: We have seen her go without eating for longer than that before..
COMPASS: 1. That was 30+ years ago… 2. She was on the Nicotine & Caffeine diet .. 3. That is not who she is now…. Shit, you know she is healthier than most women we know… she walks circles around us for Goddess’ sake! And you know she can eat! Why do you have to be like our Father!
CHAOS: Spoken like our Mother… I’ll take that as a compliment Thank you!
COMPASS: When she said it it wasn’t a compliment either Chaos.
HEATHER: Hey Kin, Heather cutting in…. So I’m guessing my voices are more than just an ego & id thing as psychology would put it… but also still a battle of mental parenting. I can tell you from experience that after losing my father two weeks before my daughter was born solidified my father’s eternal voice and ever so loving words of wisdom “well that was stupid” or my personal favorite “Did you learn anything stupid?” … sometimes a reply from Chaos “Yeah, next time don’t get caught” or “Next time do it alone, tell no one”... which was well… back talk not answer in my house.
CHAOS: It was a truthful answer… that is what we learned… Don’t get caught.. Be smart.
COMPASS: Still missing the point even 22 years after his death… No it was, don’t sneak out, don’t do drugs, don’t steal the car….
CHAOS: Statute of limitations has passed on all that was just recorded, no criminal or civil prosecution can come from this admission by a made up voice in transports head.
COMPASS: Don’t be ridiculous… that was more like 30 plus years ago
CHAOS: still… as the paralegal you should have the legal disclaimer ready not me!
HEATHER: LADIES PLEASE… This has gone on long enough… Like I was saying this apparently has uprooted some parenting issues in the voices, as I allow them a bit more carblanch… One tends to favor the other until they find something they agree on. The one thing they have been in complete agreeance with is this podcast… while it would go against the tone of this podcast I will tell these stories without the two of you…
CHAOS: [SINGING] BULLSHIT… BULLLLLSSSSHIIIITTT…… I’m standing in BULLLSHIITTTT….
COMPASS: Shut it… she might; she has our mother’s brains, our father’s balls and a shit load of her own imagination…. We can be replaced…
CHAOS: GOOD LUCK…. With who? Constance that only speaks old English, that will be fun to listen to…… How about Sorcha [SOR-ka] she’s fun! Love that Scottish Gaelic language… To replace you I would say Tenzin, but I don’t think transport knows or speaks Choe-Ke Tibetian! [laughing]
HEATHER: Enough…. Chaos leave the other voices from our past lives out of this…
CHAOS: [whispers] you hope…
HEATHER: Kin.. I am again very sorry for this personally deep intrusion.. I wish I could say that it won’t happen again, but no promises no guarantees…. Sorry one more time… Compass please continue with the memory…
COMPASS: The tourist sailed down the Vltva [VUL-ta-va] we enjoyed another drink as the boat as the boat turned to head back up river towards the dock. Three other Americans came over and grabbed a seat next to us… There was one female and two males…
CHAOS: It was a couple and a friend traveling from Illinois, they had made their ways from Amsterdam down through Germany and they were ending in Prague, they were heading home tomorrow afternoon. Unsure who the conversation started but one started…. As we laughed, joked and drank we realized the boat was ready to dock. Not wanting to end the fun with our new friends mom and us agreed to take the invite to do an Independent pub crawl.
COMPASS: Independent??? Walking off the boat and doing a quick google search doesn’t mean independent…. That’s sporadic
CHAOS: They know they wanted to go to the Black Angles’ Bar…. But not before making a top at another bar on route… It had already been 10 minutes since we last had a beer. I want to say their names Emily, Steve and Gareth.
COMPASS: Well if you stopped voting down the new phone upgrade we would have their #’s…
CHAOS: [sounding defensive] We gave Emily ours we watched her message us… granted the phone was dead and text only worked when connected to the WIFI… but we still should have had it when we got to the hotel…or at least the next morning. We lost some great people’s number, I’m pissed about that they fucking cool shit! I love military personal…
COMPASS: They found an outside cafe/bar that was tucked away in a little nook just off the one of the main walk ways in Prague. We ordered a few drinks and listened to the marine stories which Chaos always enjoys. It was hard for me to get into a conversation with Emily about their travels and adventures… with Boudica over here taking charge of Heather’s mouth…
CHAOS: Boudica .. Thank You!! Now that’s a role model…. You bet I took charge of the mouth, there are always antics going in the military either during P.T. or active military operations. As we enjoyed drinks and great conversations time quickly went by. We paid the bill and stared towards our next bar stop, Black Angel’s… if we could find it. With a few drinks in us and playing the blue dot game…[giggles].. Let’s just say we started to get dizzy from spinning around with the dot!
COMPASS: You and Steve didn’t help at all, leaving Emily, Gareth and Mom to figure out the blue dot…
CHAOS: Emily knew what she was doing…. If I recall you even made a comment like “it’s nice to have someone else that knows how to use the blue dot” so you weren’t even worried… Then our attention really focused on Steve when he asked if we smoked weed, as he reached into his adventure bag and pulled out a joint, lit it up and lingered a few feet back from the group line, knowing the others don’t smoke…
COMPASS: Oh this group is a line and not a herd… I need to know the difference…
CHAOS: PERSONAILITY…. Dear Compass… Personality… Steve passed he joint, without hesitation we inhaled… unlike Bill Clinton, so he says… 1 week without smoking but smelling it through out Germany for the 2 days prior….Now, I could sedate Compass and take the edge off Transport making sure mom’s happy, seeing everything, doing everything and experiencing everything she wanted with little to no friction or aggravation / annoyance as possible..
COMPASS: Which side are we talking about?
CHAOS: BOTH…. Mom & Transport… So 2 out of the 3 of us are sedated… [giggles] couldn’t tell you if mom cared or not that we were walking down the streets of Prague smoking a joint with our new friend. Didn’t matter mom was within eye sight with Emily and Gareth, not worried… I asked Steve if he just walked into the shop and purchased it.. We had seen shops but thinking it was like Germany where only locals could purchase, we didn’t bother to investigate any further. He said no, he walked right now found a few things and that was it… he had no problem. Honestly, I don’t think you can smoke on the streets or sitting in the cafe like a cigarette.
COMPASS: Another example of what NOT TO DO on public display thanks to Chaos..
CHAOS: We didn’t get stopped or questioned… hell we didn’t even see anyone bat an eye. Then again, when transport smokes her eyes look shut and it doesn’t look like she can see anyway… [laughing]
COMPASS: Why Dear Goddess’ Why?
CHAOS: [still laughing] It’s the truth, everyone says it… Shit I think at one point Steve, Emily and Gareth looked at us and asked if we could see….
COMPASS: Always so embarrassing..
CHAOS: For you… get rid of that shame it’s crippling…. I would have thought you’d have embraced our flaws by now. Laugh with people when they make fun of us and own those moments you call “embarrassing” we’ve heard it our life.
COMPASS: And thanks to you we never taken things personally even when we should.
CHAOS: Dam Right! … We change when we collectively feel the need…. Like this Podcast… I don’t like getting up @ 6:30am to work on this before going to our 40 hour a week job, then coming home to cook, play with our furry queen, talk with hubby and then work on this till midnight…. But I do and don’t fight most of the time… See change when necessary.
COMPASS: Story…
CHAOS: OH RIGHT! .. Hight and allowing others to take the lead in Prague I got to enjoy more marine stories, soak in the medieval architecture and the colorful decorations that adorned them.. It’s a mix of Saint’s and the Occult….. Everywhere I looked symbols of ancient ways poked out…. Alchemy, apothecaries and Golems… I was starting to feel as is I was in a Chapter from Deborah Harkness book Shadow of Night… It was one of my favorite experiences in Prague… We made it to the the Black Angle’s Bar… descending the stairs we were present with stone niches with tables, Gothic decorations and dim lighting giving the sense of a dungeon or a layer of hell within Dante's inferno.
COMPASS: It was a cool place to have a drink or two… but since it was an Instagram trendy place the prices were high… Prague is not that expensive, here I thought we were in Gibraltar..
CHAOS: True, I just wish transports phone didn’t die…. Or we would have pics… Thanks to Emily having a cord we were able to plug in the phone into our little charger..
COMPASS: Which did nothing…. Again, Thankfully, Mom’s phone had enough life for us to find the hotel…. From the twist and turns of the city center.
CHAOS: When we saddled up at Black Angel’s, Heather & Compass were coming out of their sedation, with a few beers in us… they were ready for the hotel as was mom… no use arguing…
COMPASS: We said our goodbye’s to our new friends and wished them safe travels…. Playing the blue dot game once again we walked back to our hotel.
CHAOS: We got to our hotel room at about 12:30…[giggles].. As transport is emptying her pockets she realizes she didn’t give Emily her cord back. THEIF!!
COMPASS: It was an honest accident. There was a lot of talking and laughs…. Mom did remind us that Emily messaged our phone so when the phone charged we can get in touch with her to give her back her cord.
CHAOS: So off to bed we went with a plan… Charge phone overnight, wake up have breakfast, reach out to Emily, meetup and explore Prague again the whole day at our own pace…. Easy peesy… [laughing]... we never got the message so Emily if you listening sweetie we do still have your cord!!
COMPASS: And we are very sorry.. We did not mean to take it!!
HEATHER: I am going to stop them there… Since it is now another day and another story. Before the voices say their farewell's let’s go over some lessons.
Your Health & your traveling companions health are always TOP PRIORITY
If you don’t want to do something on a tour you don’t have to… Just understand there is no refund for any part that is included but you opted out of.
Before indulging in a natural smoke be sure to know and understand the local laws and social norms. Every country is different as is each town. Be respectful of local laws & customs
We all have the voices of the people that raised us in our heads.. It is no just about balancing those voices, it is about knowing you are not your parents. Only fragment of their lessons instilled by their personalities. Find your own personality that you are proud of.
The connections we have made were jot just our 3 new friends, but to Prague as well. We hope to re-connect with our friends again one day… but we know we will be in Prague again soon…. It is a city that summons me to return.
Finally, a reminder that a persons past is not who they are currently. They have changed but their past can not.
So without further Adu, I thinking this episode has been dragged out long enough, here are my eternal voices and your hosts to say their brief farewell’s
COMPASS (calm, professional tone)
On that note… we hope you enjoyed this episode of CompassChaos13.
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Next stop: EGPYT,— this time, we will be adventuring with [Coworkers/ Friends & Other travel agents] and you can bet we’ll be forging even more unforgettable connections.
CHAOS (excited, playful)
The home of our past LIVES, I CAN’T WAIT FOR THIS ONE! I’ll be the one causing total mayhem after [security puts their trust in me] — and somehow, we still make it out alive. But hey, the chaos? Always memorable.
COMPASS (mock patience)
Listeners, help me out here — I BEG OF YOU, engage with us.
Share your travel tales, lessons, and even your “what-was-I-thinking” moments.
Tell us where you found connection through chaos — or where you just found chaos. We can help you find the humor….
CHAOS (interrupting, smirking)
Or let me make it worse! I can make it worse… please…
COMPASS (cutting in, mock sigh)
No… just stop. Again, The show’s over.
Head down on the desk please.
I’m Compass — bringing the planned direction.
CHAOS (proudly)
And I’m Chaos — bringing the unexpected!
CHAOS:
Together, we make global connections.
HEATHER (narrator / flight attendant tone)
Welcome back to the present. On behalf of your dueling hosts, Compass and Chaos, thank you for adventuring with CompassChaos13.
Before you stand, please make sure your pants are dry, your eyes are clear, and your snots are wiped — we don’t do refunds for emotional turbulence.
Some of what you heard today may sound unbelievable, but rest assured — it’s all true, and no one on this adventure is innocent.
For photos, travel tips and to read our blogs wander over to www.CompassChaos13.com.
Follow the journey on your favorite podcast platform, and share your story with us using #CompassChaos13 — because the world’s full of chaos, and we’d rather laugh through it together.
Thank you for connecting with us today. We hope your layover in our world brought a little curiosity, a bit of laughter, and a lot of connection. You ARE TRULY APPRECIATED
This is CompassChaos13 — signing off.