Little dough things cooked over coals

Charles Bridge

Czech dinner

City of Prague cooling off the tourists!

A beer with a view

Pickled cheese!

Comic book themed bar

Karlovy Lazne club

Crazy room in the nightclub

Thurs 16 Jul – Fri 17Jul 2015

We had a late arrival (about 10pm) on Wednesday night to our hotel in Prague. It was our longest drive yet – about 5.5 hours. Our hotel was in Prague 5 – next to an underground station and had free parking. For around 40 euros a night had a room with air conditioning, king size bed, a marbled en-suite and buffet breakfast and super fast internet! We relished in the luxury, watched some TV and went to bed.

On Thursday we woke to the most amazing breakfast and filled up on it so we wouldn’t need to eat lunch. We found a barber so Matt could get his bread trimmed but he was full so we arranged to come back later in the evening. We took the underground to the Old Town Square to meet our free walking tour. It was a great tour that lasted 3.5 hours. We asked our tour guide for suggestions of places to eat so we had dinner at the Olympia. Natalie had a traditional Czech dish of beef in a creamy vegetable sauce with dumplings and Matt had goulash with roasted veg. Matt tired the local beer and Natalie had a homemade elderberry lemonade. Delicious Czech food! Then we went to have Matt’s beard trimmed and then stopped by the local Tesco (yes that’s right, our usual grocer in the UK has locations in Prague) – a rather strange experience but we got some Tesco brand peanut butter. We’ve been collecting peanut butter as we couldn’t find any in France, Belgium and the Netherlands. We then went back to the hotel to change and go out for a few beers. Unfortunately, the recommended place to go have a beer was really just the docks along the river when you were meant to bring your own beer. There were a couple of really creepy boat bars but all in all we weren’t feeling it so we went home to bed.

On Friday morning we made our way to the castle and walked around the grounds. Then we went to a monastery where they brew beer, as recommended by the barber. It looked out over the city and had incredible views. We sat at the restaurant and had some drinks for a few hours and waited out a much needed thunderstorm. In Berlin the weather was rainy and low 20s. In Prague it was low 30s which made it a bit tough for walking around. After a peaceful afternoon we headed to the Old Town for dinner (another recommendation by the tour guide and it was excellent!). Then we met up with our pub crawl to experience Prague on a Friday night. What an experience. There was an hour of unlimited beer, wine, vodka and absinthe shots at the first bar. We then went to two comic themed bars and finished at the largest dance club in central Europe with four floors of different music and an ice bar. We loved the ice bar – it was the coolest experience – highly recommended. Unfortunately, Natalie had a bit too much wine earlier on in the evening and we had to leave earlier than hoped for but we didn’t get home until 4am, so overall we had a great night out in Prague!