Prague

I’m back!!

After my short trip to Prague I’m ready to tell you everything about it..

Our journey lasted 8 hours by a very full (and consequently uncomfortable) train.
When we finally got there we had no crowns, so we looked for a cash machine which of course gave us just “big” notes and we desperately needed coins as there are just ticket machines…
So I bought our first Czech beer and I got some change!

At about 11 pm we reached the “hotel” (it was a student dormitory) where we had a reservation for 4 nights in a double room. Everything was going fine! We got to our room left the backpack there and headed to the pub of our dormitory.. you have to know that the dormitory is actually made up of 12 buildings (3 or 4 floors each) and the guys there told us that almost 6000 students live there. Crazy!!!
Every block has its own pub and sort of club.

So back to our second beer!! As beer costs less than 1 euro (at least not in the most tourist places) you can imagine that Prague is simply awesome for everyone in love with beer..
We went downstairs, drank 2 beers (we hadn’t eaten anything for hours..) when 2 guys we had already met at the reception came in. They introduced themselves. They were both from Poland but one of them was half Polish and half Scottish while the other one was half Polish and half Italian with an incredible strong accent from Rome!
Anyway, they were really nice and we started talking and drank some more beer.. I was really shocked how fast the half-Scottish guy could drink his beer! It was like water to him!!!! He just shouted “down the hatch” and drank his 0,5 l beer at once!! I can do it with “schnapps” because it’s not much, but I think I would throw up if I would do it with beer!!!! And I actually saw a couple of friends of mine getting “sick”…
We ran out of money… when they paid a round, than another one, another one… we struggled, drank it and just said goodnight to the crazy Polish guys.. here’s a picture of us..









On the following day waking up wasn’t that hard.. Czech beer doesn’t damage you too much…
As we were staying on a hill, it was really amazing watching downtown from above! Down to a small alley and to our great disappointment there were so many tourists that we couldn’t even go! We tried to go to the fortress-castle where the “golden alley” is situated but there, if possible, it was even worse! We decided to leave it and we didn’t dare to go back! We just went down to the river and went for a long stroll there.
The following day started with a huge fight. The good atmosphere was spoiled till we left the centre looking for a cheap place to eat at midday. We walked for 15 minutes and we found a nice restaurant, typical Czech, where building workers would eat. Anyway we got a goulash, a fish (carp is a typical Prague’s dish), 2 beers and side dishes for 9 euros!!! I was pretty impressed!

On Tuesday we visited the miniature museum, some other spots downtown and at night we crowned our drinking and eating weekend by eating a pork knee! I had never eaten so much meat at once!! And we ordered potatoes too!! I was full to bursting point! We drank a slibowitz, smoked a cigarette and it got better… better till some guys next to us started paying becherovka-rounds!! It was again a Pole (he was there with his 8-year old son who could speak perfect English as he attends an American school somewhere in Poland), a Czech guy and both of us (Italian, Austrian). The match between Chelsea and Liverpool was about to end when we started drinking. By the time we drank the 4th Becherovka, they had played 2 overtimes and penalties.. we stood up and headed to the door, when the Czech guy just fell down “SPLAT” on the floor. His nose was bleeding and I felt it was my duty top tell the young kid that he shouldn’t take that guy as an example as alcohol can be very dangerous and can even kill you. In such situations I always feel like I have to behave like a mother!!
Anyway, we got to our dormitory around 12 pm, pretty drunk and knowing that about 5 hours later we would have had to get up! At 5 am we got up, went to the bus station, took the subway and got to the station where our train would have left Prague at 6.07 am. We sat down and I didn’t even notice that the train left the station…I was already sneering!!!!

It was a nice and fun trip! Anytime again!! (maybe next time to Budapest or Warsaw!!)