This bus was much more comfortable than the one I took in Cambodia. It even had TV screens for every pair of seats and ran episodes of “The Big Bang Theory,” though the English language audio channel cut out after an episode or two. And we were given our choice of a magazine, but they were all in Czech. And when we stopped over the border at a gas station, I was disappointed to see that it did not take Euros and had no ATM, so I couldn’t buy water when I was really thirsty. Still, when you’re a PCV with a limited budget and little time to waste on vacation, the overnight bus is the best option for traveling from Frankfurt to Prague.
Did you miss me? I was on vacation. Yep, a second vacation this summer. This time I went to Eastern Europe with fellow volunteer (from Balkan welayat too!), Ilana. It started off serendipitously when we discovered Peace Corps was coming to Balkanabat to check out families for new volunteers and would be driving back to Ashgabat the very day we needed to come in. So we were able to bum a ride with them and save serious bucks, plus be guaranteed seatbelts and A/C. So, on Friday, August 3, I hitched a ride with Shemshat and we picked up Ilana in Serdar on our way. When we got to the PCO, we had a relaxing evening and watched The Avengers. We had a few hours to kill in Ffurt, and we stumbled upon a festival with rides and food booths then we went to see The Dark Knight Rises at a theater that plays the English versions of movies. Unfortunately, we had to leave about ten minutes before the end of the film in order to catch our overnight bus to Prague (so don’t ruin the ending for me!) And when I say catch our bus, I really mean it. By the time we got back to the train station, it was three minutes before our bus was scheduled to depart, but we couldn’t find it. We circumnavigated the station looking for the “bright yellow” bus they claim is easy to spot. We had to ask some train station workers if they knew where it was and they informed us the street listed on my reservation was a block over. Sure enough, way in the distance we saw a yellow bus, so we sprinted with our luggage across streets and parking lots to get to our bus and arrived sweaty and out of breath, but we made it. Saturday morning we flew to Frankfurt Germany (one of only a few places Turkmen Air flies to) and stored our luggage at the train station.
This bus was much more comfortable than the one I took in Cambodia. It even had TV screens for every pair of seats and ran episodes of “The Big Bang Theory,” though the English language audio channel cut out after an episode or two. And we were given our choice of a magazine, but they were all in Czech. And when we stopped over the border at a gas station, I was disappointed to see that it did not take Euros and had no ATM, so I couldn’t buy water when I was really thirsty. Still, when you’re a PCV with a limited budget and little time to waste on vacation, the overnight bus is the best option for traveling from Frankfurt to Prague.
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