Slavia Praha Road Trips

We took a road trip to Salzburg this past weekend to play a game against the Salzburg Ravens who are in the EWHL. The reason I am writing about this road trip is to tell you the difference between a road trip in North America and one here in Europe. We thankfully travel on a coach bus, slightly smaller than the ones back home, but big enough for our team. A bus trip to Salzburg only takes about 7 hours, probably about six or just under if you were driving in a car. Of course we have two bus drivers. People are not exactly troopers on the road like we are back in North America hence the two bus drivers. I’m just thinking about how many times I drove to Wisconsin by myself and did a 13 hour day in a car...they sure could not do that here.

To start the trip we almost rear ended a car while driving through Prague. Luckily the driver switched lanes at the last moment or I am sure that we would have gone right over top of that little car. Oh yes and last trip we took out a construction sign on the road. I have complete confidence in these drivers!! Our staff are all males including the parents, cause it seems that only the dads seem to come to the games. That might explain the movie choice. We have watched English movies before with Czech dubbed over them, but this road trip was the first time that we watched a real Czech film...that made things interesting as at one point I looked up and saw a bunch of naked women doing sexual things to a man in the movie. Oh my goodness! Imagine watching those shows on a bus trip back when I played for Wisconsin, that would not fly at all! Sara got up at one point and started shielding the eyes of some of the younger girls on the team. Our coaches/mangers got a kick out of that but of course did not stop the movie.

Alcohol is freely passed around the front of the bus as well. I’m sure our coach had a couple of beer before the game. Oh yeah and to make things more interesting when we stopped for a pre game meal along the way our bus drivers had a cold one as well! Oh wow!

We made it okay so no worries with that, granted we were super late and pretty much got off the bus and played our game. (Felt like I was in high school again) We came through and won 3-2 which was great because we are still undefeated in the EWHL.