The drive from Vienna to Prague was not too long & we reached our hotel around lunchtime. We had free time until dinner so we decided to take the metro into town to have a look around as staying at the hotel just seemed like wasting time. The metro was pretty simple but trying to get the tickets was not. First of all the Czech Republic have their own money called crowns (not sure if that’s spelt right), so we had to get some of that. The guy at the station wouldn’t take notes (not sure what the point of him being there is if you can’t buy tickets from him & get change) so we had to go to the supermarket to buy something to get some coins. I obviously don’t speak Czech but the lady at the till was not impressed that a group of foreigners came in with big bank notes to buy one little thing. I think we cleaned her out of change - there was a fair amount of grumbling & throwing of money going on.
Once in the city we just wandered around looking at things we were not going to see on the walking tour later that night & buying some souveniers. We stopped at a park (photo 1 of Rimi, Daniel, myself & Fran all trying to look like it’s a casual shot & failing very badly) & it was nice to be outside sitting in the fresh air surrounded by lots of green stuff.
We met back at the hotel for dinner which was the best one yet. It was a buffet which may have had something to do with it as you can choose what you want. Although most of us seemed to try everything, which my ever expanding waist line is none too happy about.
After dinner it was back onto the metro & into town where Roma gave us a guided walking tour. These are good as it helps us decide what we want to do the next day which is a free day. I have put in a photo of Roma (number 2) talking as I don’t think I had added one of her yet.
One of the places we went to was the Old Town Square where they have an Astronomical clock (photo 3) that every hour does some sort of cuckoo clock type thing. We were all waiting for this & ran over as it started (like a bunch of other tourists did too) but it was such an anti climax. As Roma pointed out, it might have seemed really crap to us but in the 14th century (or whenever it was made) it would have been really exciting.
After the tour we went to the Beer Factory (I think that’s the name) where you sit at a table with your own beer contraption in the middle with a lot of handles & pull your own beer (the last photo). There is even a glass washer at the table. As well as washing glasses this was great for spraying anyone within a 2m radius with water - don’t think it made us too popular with the waiters. It was fairly juvenile actually but still fun. Anyway you then just pay for how many litres you drink - the beer drinking table in our group went through something like 20-25 litres, maybe even more! Those of us who don’t like beer had cocktails - I had “Sex on the beach” - twice. Big night for me!
Interesting fact - the man who designed the Astronomical clock was made blind so that he could never make a copy & it would be the only one in the world. Good idea (although slightly barbaric) until the clock needed to be repaired & no-one but him knew how to fix. A little bit of foresight may have been a good thing but obviously something they lacked back in the days when Jesus was playing fullback for the Saints (little bit of a Dalton saying there - it will make sense if you knew my Dad).
Once in the city we just wandered around looking at things we were not going to see on the walking tour later that night & buying some souveniers. We stopped at a park (photo 1 of Rimi, Daniel, myself & Fran all trying to look like it’s a casual shot & failing very badly) & it was nice to be outside sitting in the fresh air surrounded by lots of green stuff.
We met back at the hotel for dinner which was the best one yet. It was a buffet which may have had something to do with it as you can choose what you want. Although most of us seemed to try everything, which my ever expanding waist line is none too happy about.
After dinner it was back onto the metro & into town where Roma gave us a guided walking tour. These are good as it helps us decide what we want to do the next day which is a free day. I have put in a photo of Roma (number 2) talking as I don’t think I had added one of her yet.
One of the places we went to was the Old Town Square where they have an Astronomical clock (photo 3) that every hour does some sort of cuckoo clock type thing. We were all waiting for this & ran over as it started (like a bunch of other tourists did too) but it was such an anti climax. As Roma pointed out, it might have seemed really crap to us but in the 14th century (or whenever it was made) it would have been really exciting.
After the tour we went to the Beer Factory (I think that’s the name) where you sit at a table with your own beer contraption in the middle with a lot of handles & pull your own beer (the last photo). There is even a glass washer at the table. As well as washing glasses this was great for spraying anyone within a 2m radius with water - don’t think it made us too popular with the waiters. It was fairly juvenile actually but still fun. Anyway you then just pay for how many litres you drink - the beer drinking table in our group went through something like 20-25 litres, maybe even more! Those of us who don’t like beer had cocktails - I had “Sex on the beach” - twice. Big night for me!
Interesting fact - the man who designed the Astronomical clock was made blind so that he could never make a copy & it would be the only one in the world. Good idea (although slightly barbaric) until the clock needed to be repaired & no-one but him knew how to fix. A little bit of foresight may have been a good thing but obviously something they lacked back in the days when Jesus was playing fullback for the Saints (little bit of a Dalton saying there - it will make sense if you knew my Dad).
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