Our second day we headed out on a big walk through and around Prague to see if it lived up to its hype of being one of Europe's most beautiful cities. And it certainly did. Various panoramic views at spots along the walk more than did its charms justice.
What you can't see in the top picture above is the two foot bong that those guys are smoking. In Prague we seemed to smell someone smoking a joint around every other street corner. Oh, and you can still smoke inside in a lot of places here.
Before we headed off on the walk, we had those two perfect pastries below from Šlágr. Purely for sustenance purposes of course. A krémole (puff pastry with a creamy filling) and větrníky (sort of like a Czech interpretation of a coffee eclaire). The kremrole was OK but the větrníky, oh geebaz. So, so good and such a healthy start to the day.
During that walk we stopped into U Černého Vola for a few hydrating pilseners and got our first taste of Czech beer snacks. From this point on we began to realise more and more that Czech knows what it's doing when it comes to food, and beer snacks in particular.
Below you can see utopenec, which translates as 'a drowned man' as it's a sausage drowned in vinegar (it's bloody brilliant), a massive piece of amazing smoked trout and syr smazeny, which is crumbed gooey cheese. I don't know if I've ever been as pleasantly surprised by a meal.
Then dinner that night we headed to U Slovanské Lípy for more Czech beer and traditional Czech cuisine. Nix tucked into žižkovská fanka (roasted potatoes, chicken breast, broccoli, onions, paprika and garlic all baked with cheese) and me flákota vepřové (pretty much just pork steak with bacon and onion). "Yes, just meat", I repeated to the waitress.
Our third day we went for a bit of wander to see a couple of things in light that we'd seen the night before (including those creepy little guys below) and then ended up at Zlý Časy for "just a couple".
We devoured the amazing beer snacks below, that included nakládaný hermelín, pickled camembert, tlačenka, various meat bits in jelly and covered in vinegar, and Olomoucké tvarůžky, a strange sort of plasticy cheese (all flavour sensations).
Then after seven pints walked out into the cold night air. Said cold night air must've done something to my directing abilities as I proceeded to get us very lost whilst attempting to read the map one eyed and at one point even thought I'd lost my glasses, even though I was still wearing them.
Divorce threat number two. Three strikes and I'm out?
We eventually made it home so thought it best to have a couple more at the hostel bar, clearly we were making very rational decisions at this point.
The next, and final, day in Prague was a bit of a write off, part from the night before and part from the colds we'd picked up. I did however grab one of these for a little hit.
The Beers
Únětické Pivo 10° Nefiltrované, 12° Nefiltrované
Matuška Apollo Galaxy
Valášek IPA
Staněk Dobromila Strudel Weizen
Prager Laffe Smokie
Permon IPA Sherpa 16°
Plzeňský Prazdroj
Velkopopovický Kozel Tmavý
Nová Paka 13° Nefiltrovaný
Urban Lezak
Tambor 11° Nefiltrovaný, R. A. Dvorsky
Ježek 11° Nefiltrovaný
Démon
Zvíkov Zlatá Labut 13° Svetley Speciál
Rychtář Speciál
Nymburk Sváteční Speciál
Rambousek Tmavý Speciál
Kaštano Medový Speciál
