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Plzen and pilsner
It's still October but the forecast is for snow in Cesky Krumlov in the next couple of days. Unfortunately we are moving on to Plzen today, although we do hear that there is a still a chance of snow there as well. Our bus for Plzen left at 915am, so we were up relatively early so we could be at breakfast on the dot of 8am, stuff ourselves and still make it to the bus-stop down the road on time.
Plzen is a town of 175,000 (yes, thats ...
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
... each other, although I think we were among the oldest there and definitely the only married couple. The pub crawl guides took us to three bar/clubs throughout the night (you pay in advance for your admission) ending at a five story dance club, the largest in Europe. It stays open until 5am, but we petered out around 1:30 and made the walk back to our hotel, spirits lifted to finally not be alone in our travels.
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Pilsner Urquell Brewery
... soon found that the Europe version of all you can eat is quite different . Bread - all you can eat; beer - all you can drink; ribs - big platters that amounted to one per person with our large group. Thirty minutes late, chicken drumsxticks two per person and then the last meat course, pork knee - large and ugly but actually quite tasty and filling.
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The Birthplace Of The Pilsner
This morning we boarded a train from Prague, 2 hours to the small town of Pilsen (Plzen). The allure of this small town is it's claim to fame of being the first place to brew botom fermented amber lager. Firstly, we visited the quirky little Brewery Museum that details the history of beer making in Pilsen from the 1300's when everyone in the town had a license to brew and a large amount of ...
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