Holiday Inn Congress Center Prague

... able to <br>walk around. We stopped in at a small coffee shop and had a latte. <br>After we walked by the last club we had visited on our pub crawl and <br>also saw a very interesting 7 person bike. It started to rain hard <br>again so we decided to head back to the hostel. We headed to the <br>lounge and watched Super Troopers. After the movie we both packed our <br>bags since we were both leaving the next morning ...

... tasty.<br><br> Our trip through beer land at an end, we climb into the van to go to the Koneprusy caves. They are living caves with three levels but we can only visit 2 levels. Lots of steps, around 500. My legs are quite irritated that I went through the whole cave. Thought to give my hip some rest today by going on a tour. Opps. Forgot walking in caves is never restful for arthritis.<br><br> Fun day

... put before him... <br><br><br>The tour starts with the production line - the cleaning of recycled glasses, the airation &amp; subsequent dispensing of beer into glasses and laser scanning of the bottles for imperfections, this was pretty much how it worked for the cans aswell (minus the recycling step). <br><br>If I could bore you with all the ...

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.<br>

... interesting museums, art exhibits, spectacular scenery and really good food. It's a shame to leave Prague since it feels like we've entered the second half of our travels now but we're really looking forward to see what Hungary, Croatia and Italy have to offer. Looks like our chill out time is over and it's going to be back to confusing train schedules, last minute plan changing, getting lost and having nowhere near enough sleep and doing way too much walking. Can't wait.<br>

... it was only us and 12,000 tettering tombstones with some 20,000 people buried beneath us in multiple layers of coffins. Rabbi Lowe is buried opposite the entrance hall in the cemetery. The Rabbi was the creator of the Golem, a creature made of mud from the Vltava River. Replicas of the creature are sold in market stalls. He looks a little like the Michelin Man held together with Band-Aids. The Golem was handcrafted by Rabbi Loew and brought to life to help him in his ...

Walking through Prague is like walking through a fairytale of medieval castles, cathedrals and cobble stone roads... and what makes it even better, it that it's actually an adult's fairytale as the city had more bars and restaurants than you could visit in a life time. We were extremely luck as Inge-Marie had secured us an enormous one bedroom apartment with lounge and kitchen, in the centre of Prague, which meant all the attractions were within walking ...

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.

When we arrived in Prague we were greeted and approached by several hotel/hostel representatives... Despite our initial apprehension, we chose to go with an old lady named Jana (pronounced Yana)simply because she had kind eyes. (Of course she didn't speak English) but she was friendly and paid for our subway ride into the city. (We had no cash and the lines for the bank-machines in the train terminal were very long so, she insisted on paying for us. A nice touch.) In Prague, we were ...