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Sunday July 5
Breakfast at our hotel here in Praha is amazing—I might even like it better than Berlin. They have pastries, breads, cheeses, cold meats, fruit, the equivalent of some sort of egg salad, ham (the ham is good), an egg noodle dish, coffee, juice…After breakfast, we did a whole lot of nothing. I updated my blog, messed around on the internet, Viv took another nap, and just basically took it easy. We went out for lunch (we’ve been eating so much) in Hradčany (the castle district). We shared a very good chicken noodle soup. Viv had beef goulash with bread dumplings and I had roasted pork. The food here is amazing—I love the idea of serving meals with little potato or bread dumplings so you can soak up all the extra sauce from your dish, it’s genius. For dessert, one of us had something similar to a crepe with jam and the other had an amazing strudel (I can’t remember anymore, we always switch plates back and forth anyway). Eventually we made our way to the Prague Castle. It’s huge! We saw the St. Vitus Cathedral, the Old Royal Palace, the gardens…We saw the outside of Golden Lane,
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we had lunch down there but we didn’t want to pay to go down there so we skipped it. Back in the middle ages mainly goldsmiths used to live here. More recently, the author Franz Kafka lived here for a little bit. We walked around the grounds for a little bit before heading back down the hill towards the Charles Bridge. A little later that day, we went to Klub Lávka for a mini dinner/snack. We got to sit right along the river next to the Charles Bridge—an amazing view. I ordered a Bohemian and Morovian cheese plate, Viv ordered potato soup and “chips.” The cheese plate was pretty good. The potato soup was just ok, a little bland. The “chips” (I think Viv was under the impression that they’d be some homemade delicacy) were just a bag of good old Lays regular potato chips that our waiter opened and poured into a basket (right in front of us). We had to try really hard to suppress our laughter. Oh well the food was average, who cares! The view more than made up for it.
It was getting dark so we headed over to Old Town Square. This place (along with the entire city)
is beautiful. All of the buildings are really old (they were untouched during the war so most of them are original). Viv mentioned that it looks like something from a movie set or Disneyland, but these are actual functioning structures. Amazing. At the Old Town Square we saw the Astronomical Clock. This medieval clock tells not only the time, but it relates the movements of the planets around the earth and the sun and the moon through the signs of the zodiac (DK).
After wandering nearby streets, we were ready for Dinner #2. This great little Jazz Café Ungelt (I think that was the name of it). The service there was very nice and helpful. We shared a plate of roasted pork with potato pancakes and sauerkraut. It was huge! There was no way one person would have been able to eat this (especially after having eaten less than 2 hours earlier). We didn’t even finish it. It was delicious though. Finally after we couldn’t possibly eat anymore, we decided it wasn’t worth staying awake so we went back to the hotel to sleep.
Quick note: sorry for the delay in my blog, I’m actually writing this
Tuesday morning and not on Sunday. I hope to be all caught up by sometime tonight. I’m starting to feel a little homesick myself and can’t wait to see everyone back home. Good night for you guys, I’m getting up to go get breakfast.
p.s. Jordan after you said that, we saw a huge frog here! hahahaha
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Grammy
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Where are the people?
It doesn't look like there are very many people around. Are the streets ever crowded? It seems that the pace is rather slow . I love your food comments. we are all " foodies." This is your last day, have fun!!!!