Log Thirty Two – Prague, Czech Republic

5 September 2017

You can tell a lot about a country by the advertising you see at the airport.  The baggage hall at the Prague airport is filled with advertisements for beer.  Czechs love their beer and in a restaurant it’s cheaper than water.  The beer is very good and there are so many to choose from.

Our apartment is behind the windows in the roof of the building at the end of this street.

Prague is a little like stepping into a Jason Bourne film set.  The cobble stone streets are narrow and they twist and turn through the old and new city.  There are trams everywhere which means you have to be alert when stepping off the pavement.

Tourists are everywhere but they all seem to sleep in.  At 9.00am the streets are deserted and at 12.00 you can’t get through the crowds.

Our three hour bike ride on an electric bike was the way to see the city and to enjoy a beer at a monastery.

Like any city as old as Prague, it is filled with monuments to soldiers, religious figures, academics and politicians.  The challenge is all the tablets are written in Czech so it’s a little difficult to work out who they are and what they did.

We bumped into a couple who are staying in the apartment next to ours.  Yep, they’re from Australia, Queensland to be specific.

Prague has made wonderful use of its public gardens.  One in particular is filled with fruit trees and the fruit is available to all.  There is even an app to tell you when certain trees have ripe fruit.

A Czech meal – meat, dumplings, bread and potatoes, and of course beer.  Love it.

Published on board a train to Budapest.