Counting down the days in Prague

9 more days in Prague and funny enough, we found the Czech Tourism office last night as we wandered around our neighbourhood, looking for a different path to walk. You would not believe how we were the only ones who appeared to be using that office. The lady there was very helpful and extremely nice to us. There were tons of brochures and information pamphlets regarding areas of interest in CZ.

We are planning to spend our last 9 days seeing sights outside Prague, like Kutna Hora (old mining town with an ossuary), Karlovy Vary (famous for its hot springs spas), Cesky Budjejovice (Budweiser origin) and Terezin (one of the Jewish concentration camps). There are other things we learned today, like the fact that there are actually beaches in Prague - only they are river beaches, with sandy shores still. And nude beaches that you have to be careful about!

(Michael thinks that listening to Czech is like listening to terribly pronounced Russian. There are lots of words that are the same but are jumbled up or parts arent pronounced.)

We've decided that the food here is... not good. In the hopes of making lots of money from tourists, Prague has a serious infection of terrible restaurants. Everywhere you look there are restaurants mostly serving pizza and pasta. Dont get us wrong we love Italian food... IN Italy. And the Czech Menu is horrible, they really do not do justice to the food (if it really is any good) with the English description they give you. It's something like 'chicken with tomatoes and potatoes'. We have outsmarted the food system though, by going to grocery stores and taking out their roast chicken and/or pork and have found them to be much better than what it looks like in the restaurants.

Enough bashing of the food, we are having goulash from a packet tonight, just like what they served us in one of the restaurants we went to. We just add water, potatoes, and voila! You have a bowl of delicious goulash, minus the dumplings. But who needs dumplings anyway, when all it is is a ball of dough? We miss our Asian food....Pho, mmmmm....sushi.....mmmmmm.....and Congee Wong....mmmmmm.....

For the last two days, we've been hiking around the Prague Castle. It's really...nice. Well, exept for the fact that there is absolutely no furniture, no decor and no signs telling us which room we're currently looking at. The Golden Lane was the best part. We loved the small cottage style alley with its awesome history of Alchemy. Fools. All they needed to do was invent the ATM. Plastic to money is better than Lead into Gold... Lighter. Speaking of money and metals, we caught a guy fishing for coins in one of the fountains. I guess it's a good way to make money as long as you don't get caught. It buys you a beer or two, maybe even a weiner on the street.


(We are just at an internet cafe, waiting for our photos to be burnt onto a CD, in case anything happens to our camera. It is taking a while since there are over 500 photos and are large files.)