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Plzen and pilsner
... it is possible to stand in one room, look at the water 1m below and up at street level 2 above and then through to the next cellar straight across. Its meant to be the local water which gives pilsner beer (the original) its quality. We had an audio guide as we were on a Czech speaking tour. The audio guide told us which streets we were under at certain times, at one time we were underneath the main square 100m away! We had to wear helmets ...
Too Many Brewery Tours Are Never Enough
... It seems everyone in Pilsen was wanting to get to Prague on the 14:08 train and the main issue was finding a cabin not only with free seats but space to store our backpacks.
We did a few laps of the carriages before doubling back and find an 8 seater berth with only 4 people and even more importantly, free space on the luggage storage shelves.
We took our seats and as we progressed more and more people boarded until we had 8 people crammed in to ...
The only living American in Plzen
... We loaded up on pastries and some local snacks and decided to drive for Prague that afternoon, a little over an hour north.
Other than lots of bad Czech music on the radio, the drive to Prague was uneventful and we arrived around 1:00pm and dropped off our bags at the Hotel Hastal (not a hostel, pronounced haz-STALL). It was now time to drop off our rental car since Prague is extremely easy to walk about. This proved more challenging than expected, ...
Pilsner Urquell Brewery
... dispensing the beer into our cups did not need English when he wagged his finger at Sam as Sammy held out his cup for a sample.
It was only about 45 degrees in the cellar but at this point of our trip (yep, another hot day in Europe ) it felt really good. Our tour was folowed by an "all you can eat and drink" fest in their restaurant Na ...
Just Sue Finds Her Feet
... beer. On a Sunday, in a country where almost everything closes for the day, this was about as good as it was going to get.
Day three of the transit was schedule to have tempretures over 30 degrees C so we elected on a short ride and got ourselves into the city of Bamberg. This small city is World Heritage listed and has 12 breweries. These facts must be related! Regardless ...
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