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Published: April 18th 2017
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After a 4 hour train journey, most of which I spent asleep dribbling down myself, Minx and I had arrived in city 3: Prague.
We had been promised 70p pints, and nothing but the sesh from east to west. But when we arrived in the train station, I was well under the weather, and got minx to direct us to our accommodation. With it being Easter weekend, we saved abit more money by renting an AirBnB. We walked up the hilly streets of Prague to meet Theresa, one of the owners of the flat. She gave us the keys and went on her way. Due to the long day, we he were pretty boring the first night, so we took a quick walk to the shop, minx cooked some Macaroni and cheese (Sooooo good to get chef minx of the world famous 32 back) and we hit the hay.
The next morning, we woke up, ready for our first day of Prague. Well, we would have if I didn't have 2 ridiculous sized golf balls at the back of my throat... the throat spray and cough sweets from Vienna weren't even coming close, so the first mission of the day- Find
a Pharmacy in Prague that is open on an Easter Sunday, with an English Speaking Pharmacist who can assist us with what's strong enough to help. Simple, right?
After passing 6 pharmacies, all of which were closed, we asked where the nearest doctors of hospital was who could give us some advice, realistically, we were going to need something prescribed anyway! After we found the hospital, went inside and sat down, things were starting to look positive. We were sat in a waiting room until the scariest nurse I've ever seen walked out, and shouted at us. However, this looked like her way of saying "what's wrong". Minx explained the problem to her, because I sounded like Rowan Atkinson in Jonny English when he puts the muscle relaxant serum in and can't talk. She walked into her office and back out and gave us a small slip of paper. It was an address of a hospital... THE OTHER SIDE OF PRAGUE. We walked back up to the shopping area of the town and jumped on the tram. We went into the hospital, found the place they said and sat down, another lady came out, a lot smaller and less pitball
than the last and asked me for my EHIC card or Insurance number. Well.
After our 'Adventure' to Rock AM Ring last year, I misplaced my EHIC card and forgot to order a new one. She then asked for my passport. Only left it at the apartment didn't I. So after a lot of head shaking and me agreeing to pay for the prescription and doctor looking at it, I went into a room, with my beautiful wife minx waiting in reception for me. No word of a lie, the hospital looked like a Set from the Saw films. Dark, Dingy and the doctors tools didn't look very... conventional?
But anyway, £35 last, I had my penacilin prescription in hand and we found and open pharmacy to give me the prescription. So, We ventured off back the flat and I went straight to bed, all drugged up and ready to get on top form again for tomorrow. I insisted Minx went a continued to discover himself in Prague, so at 4pm, he got his hat on, picked up the keys and off he went... I went to sleep and that was the end of Day 2 for Dan... however,
I'm now going to let minx write his recollections of what happened on the rest of day 2...
There was only one thing on my mind as I left the flat that day. When's the next beer coming from. After hearing all the rumours about cheap beer and after all the fun we had on the first barcrawl in Budapest, I thought let's try one on Easter Sunday. Prior to leaving the flat I had scoped out the locations I needed to go to start the barcrawls. So my first port of call was to find these.
Soon after wandering around the city for an hour I decided that I would actually do something touristy then sit inside hospitals all day. So I ventured upto the castle of Prague, an amazing piece of architecture. After going up there i came back down and walk across St Charles Bridge and admired the views of the city.
After all the walking to had some time to kill before the bar crawl so I went to go sit in a sports bar, where the big game was on. After having a steady beer at the sports bar I headed to the bar
crawl.
Since the trauma we had in Budapest I had become sceptical about Bar Brawls and would know that no bar crawl would ever reach the heights of the legendary BONKERS BAR CRAWL.
However, to my amazement about 40 people from all over the world had turned. So we headed over to the first bar. Free drinks for an hour. Just like the happy hour in Vienna we all know how this went. Despite getting very drunk it was good to mingle with people from all over the world. the highlight would be doing absinthe shots with my good friend Peter from Colardo and almost ending his life. Anyway, I left to go for a stroll at 4pm and get back at 4am. I wonder who had the better time....
Can you please just note, during his 12 hour 'voyage of discovery' I was still in bed, and had awoke to take tablets at 3:30, to realise, STILL NO JAMIE! Like, how do I tell people he died? Do I say he was alone in Prague? Or I fell asleep and snuck out? He is 23! I didn't let Jamie die! He then just walks in the door with that typical Minxy "Hello" (please say this in the Minxy Voice).
Next morning we both had a lay in, and my penacilin was Defo making movements which was a massive help, which means Minx could take me on his previously mapped out tour of Prague. We ventured to the top of the Prague Castle and through the market, and over the Charles Bridge! The sites were amazing. We stopped for some lunch at a small cafe in a quite street near the river. As we went in, we ordered 2 Fanta's and asked for the lunch menu. It was only a small cafe, nothing posh. I ordered the special of the day, Spag Bol and Minx asked what the server would suggest out of the 3 Czech items on the menu. The man told him that he should choose the Hungarian goulash on the soup menu. Minx being minx agreed. A few moment later, he bought us a basket of what bread, it was no less than at least half a loaf. With the smallest bit of butter ever. But o well, then the meals came out, my Spag Bol and Minx's Goulash, which was served in a bread bowl. So minx was now dipping Bread in a Goulash Bread bowl. This is the weirdest carb diet I had even seen! Anyway, we finished up and he then bought out the bill... €28. Now, the food wasn't anything amazing, and he had even charged us for the half Loaf of bread which he gave to us! In true Minx and Dan style (as not to upset the locals) we put the money in the slip and smiled as we handed it over. For the next hour, there were continuous grumbles about the price of the lunch, but we were discovering Prague!
We woke up to check out earlier this morning and this time Petr came to collect the keys, Theresa's Husband. He came in with a baby in his arms, a baby that I can describe as being nothing less than possessed. Either that child was the devil, or smacked off its head on a few grams. We soon discovered the latter of the two was more possible, as Petr was the manager of a dance/electronic band, who had just played a festival in Amsterdam.
Overall, the city was nice, however, not as cheap as we thought! Nothing beats the 98p pint in Budapest!
We are now in the Prague airport for a short hour and a half flight to our next and most unpredictable adventure on the trip... Amsterdam...
#PrayforDGandMinx
P.S. Minx has just decided to tell me we are staying in Shelter City Christian Hostel... 10 room Male Dorm... in a Christian Hostel...
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