bring out your inner boho

We're coming to the end of almost a week in Prague and aside from "lack-of-service-culture" (thanks for the heads-up V) it's been great. We're now fully awesome at pointing to things that look good on menus - tlacenka, sure, whatever that is... it was brawn in jelly, but we dodged that bullet.

May as well start with the meat: with things like pork knuckle and goulash on the menu, who isn't happy? And with every meal it seems that saurkraut is a government legislated necessity. It is so tasty! Another newly discovered addiction is freshly grated horseradish with mustard.... *salivate* (see below accompanying ribs).

Although no comparison to cheese in Paris, beer snacks in Prague pretty much = cheese. Platters or pickled or smoked. Heaven.

Drinking has been fun: beers are big (and cheap, like REALLY cheap. It costs far less to quench your thirst with 0.5L of tasty Pilsner than to buy a coke, or even a bottle of water in some places. So as you can imagine James and I were enthusiastic to employ this money saving diet at every meal) and it is burčák season!

Burčák is partially fermented wine which has a slight fizz, is extremely sweet and also syrupy. Yum! (Beth hates it). Apparently it is a pleb drink as we went into the wine bar (below) and were met with a sigh followed by a vigorous shake of head when we asked if they had it...

Fun!

We visited the biggest castle in the world - Hradčany. Its a very big and castle-like, you know, with a moat, big walls, art, cathedral and whatnot.

The glass here was particularly impressive. Unlike most cathedral glass which has imagery painted onto the glass, a lot of the panels here different colours were mosaiced to form an image

We took a train out amongst the countryside to Kutná Hora. It's a little cobbled hillside village sort of like that village in the movie Chocolat. Not French though, and no Johnny Depp to be seen. And no Chocolat. So not really like that at all. Anyway, it is home to the Bone Church [dramatic exclamatory pause], where the bones of about 40,000 people were exhumed for the little cemetry to make way for fresh bodies and stacked in the 15/16th centuries (something to do with a little bug called the Black Plague I believe).

Police have hardcore Segways! And are friendly.

Waiting waiting for transport...

Lunchtime beers. Still engaged!

Well into Wednesday night...

Desecrating some art near the Franz Kafka museum. They love him to pieces. I think the weeing men are also related to him somehow.

This is the Jewish part of town. Hitler destroyed all the other mosques apart a few in this area which he kept as a memento to the race he though he had destroyed. Fail. This is not a particularly busy street - Prague is thick with tourists like nowhere else we've been.

That's about all we have time for. Onwards to Oktoberfest - achtung!

Love n all that.

James and Beth.