Blogs from Plzen, Plzen Region, Czech Republic, Europe - page 3

Groeten uit Plzen, een van de belangrijkste steden ter wereld: "pils" is namelijk naar deze stad vernoemd :) Verder is het de 4e stad van Tsjechie met nog allerlei andere bezienswaardigheden. Laten we beginnen bij de heenreis: niet helemaal volgens plan. Het was mijn bedoeling om in 1 dag via Leer, Hannover, Göttingen, Gera naar Cheb te reizen. Helaas was er nogal wat vertraging; de trein uit Göttingen had bij vertrek al 45 minuten vertraging, en dat werd steeds meer. Toen begon het te onweren, werden er zaken omgeroepen over seinstoringen. Even na Erfurt stonden we weer stil, en toen werd omgeroepen dat de reis voor onbepaalde tijd vertraagd was vanwege een (als ik het goed verstaan heb) Dammrutsch. Rails overstroomd? Spoordijk ingestort? Iets anders ingestort over de rails heen? Wie spreekt er beter Duits dan ... read more

Morning: This morning, I mean dawn, I was woken up by the sounds of cornflakes in a bowl and realised it´s Miguel getting ready to go to class. Anyway, it´s too early to register anything in my brain yet...Then after abt an hour, he´s back from class and we are still not up yet at 10+am! Lazybums! Managed to get up finally and slowly got ready to step out of his flat to the town center, which is like, a few steps more. Haaa...the carnival at the square is still going on but we decided to go get a nice coffee at the Cross Cafe first before going over to join the crowd. Afternoon: Great cafe and we sat there for a while as I watched the 2 origami experts start to fold the paper into ... read more

All went well getting to and fro from Plzen. I walked for hours down the river, climbed the cathedral tower, ate pork, dumplings and cabbage and looked at some very dull second hand shops. It's not a bad place but I wouldn't want to spend more than a day there. Milada, the Czech girl who showed me around likes it much more than Prague but i can't think why.... read more

So we made it to the holy grail: Plzen, the home of the Pilsener style of beer and of Pilsner Urquell, arguably the worlds most famous. The town itself is quite small, and centres around a large square dominated by the Cathedral of St Bartholemew. Its quite a small church but its tower is one of the tallest in Bohemia and so we had to climb it. The views were great, and in the not so distant distance we could see the Pilsner Urquell brewery. Spent the next day or so checking out the town: the underground tunnels where private pubs were located and beer chilled, the brewery museum where we learnt everything we didnt need to know about the history of Corbs favourite beverage and in particular Pilsner Urquell, and the worlds third largest synagogue ... read more

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