Family Guest House Razlovi Harrachov

... plus a large hop warehouse fire and the worldwide hop supply was dwindling while growers had to replant. Now the hops are back and it isn’t quite a crisis anymore.

We are finally down to the cellars after going past the large copper covered tanks where the beer is mashed and hops added. Down here we are treated to a new beer. It has not yet been filtered and pasteurized but boy is ...

I seemed to have developed a taste for beer on this trip (partly b/c it's too hot to drink wine!!) and no tour to Czech republic would be complete with a tour of the Pilsner Urquell brewery...


The town of Pilsner is fairly nondescript (ie/ it has no redeeming features, other than a summer installation of a pilsner beer garden and a bouncy ...

Today we went to the Pilsner Urquell brewery in Plzen. Pilsner, the type of beer, originated here, where Pilsner Urquell was brewed from local crops and local mineral water. The tour was awesome. We saw the traditional brew kettles and the modern ones, as well as a very modern new packaging plant. We also tasted some unpastuerized beer directly from fermenting barrels.

last couple of days in prague were quite good. after sightseeing we went clubbing in the centre of prague - near charles bridge. 5 floors with different music on each floor. even though we were just the two of us we still had a good time and were able to make our way back to the hostel in the dark by foot!!! on sat we went to the communist museum in ...

... for this simple cotton short-sleeved polo shirt - an astounding $156!! We politely passed. We found our way back to find a dinner spot and wound up at our own Hotel U Kocku, and enjoyed a nice Czech meal, followed with Haggen Daz ice cream! After the sunset, we re-loaded our camera gear and headed for the Vltava River and found a spot for our night shots of the Charles Bridge and the city river reflections. We caught many eyes, stares over our photo session as we were ...

... after-weve-been- driving-for-5-min.-to ur... so we sat around in the bus for about 20 min before the driver decided, no, maybe it wont break down today after all... lets try it and just push it to the limit. Theres enough of us to push if we have to! great. But luckily the remainder of the tour was uneventful. Later we took a cab to move their luggage from their hotel to their boat, and here the fun begins. I remember reading or hearing somewhere int he past that ...

Arrived in Karlstejn on the "City Elephant" train at 1.20pm and walked 2km to the Karlstejn Castle. Went on the 2.30pm English tour of the castle which took about an hour. No photography allowed inside the castle. Took in the views over the town before walking back to the train station and catching the train back to Prague.

... just penning the crossword" kind of buzz. The, "I am on the cusp of something genius!" apparition is quickly replaced in a dreamlike logic, with, "I am on the precipice of frustration" ...and every pint deepens the trance. Strolling Prague's old-town streets invokes plans of grandeur so deceptive, they evince their true nature only when one returns home- thusly, in ...

... screw it all up and it takes me over two hours to get back to the hostel!! So just after 2am the tram rolls up and we are off. Next stop a big stoner comes onto the tram and collapses into the seat a few in front of me. His head is wobbling around and he can hardly open his eyes. LOL (Lady sitting across from him doesn't look amused). He is joined by some loud(highly likely drunk) teenagers, a smoker in the non smoking tram who after finishing his smoke air ...

... back into the cart as the items are rung up and take the full cart to a shelf where you can pack the items in the bags you have brought with you. Because there are two of us we can normally pack as the items are rung up. One day at Meinel Fred had put a 10kc piece into the cart. As we checked out some woman came up to him wanting the cart. He gave it to her and she gave him a 5kc in return! Live and learn. We love the meat stores and greengrocers. The meat is always fresh and ...