Jerome House Prague

... or an interesting story of how things came to be in the Czech Republic.

During the tour Sadie and I met student travelers from Europe. They all went to school in Denmark studying civil engineering. Two girls were from Lithuania, one girl from Spain and one guy from France. After the tour was over we spent the afternoon walking the streets of Prague with them and getting hot tea in a pub. We found out that they were on a week holiday so they were ...

... 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 ...

... put before him...


The tour starts with the production line - the cleaning of recycled glasses, the airation & 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).

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.

... of like me see tracks, two horses, two men, one with a beard went this way. Once we made it to the road with the electric lines, I followed the tram tracks to the stop. Me see two big metal lines in ground, one goes east, one goes west to castle. However, I was so busy looking at the ground I nearly missed the tram. Judy brought me out of my trance and we got on the tram and headed back up castle hill to our hotel.

... we camped at this weird, seemingly abandoned hotel. After we ride miles out of our way to get there this lady tells me in broken few words and mostly hand gestures that we can't stay there it's only for people of an association. I'm not sure if it was my puppy dog eyes or my deadly looks but in the end she let us camp out back. It was kinda weird because we were the only ones there.

... headed up Pritnik Hill where the 1/5 sized Eiffel Tower is. I first saw the communist memorial which depicted human figures on stairs that were progressively losing body parts. Then up the hill in a tram ride for 26Kc (like 1 euro) then to pay 70Kc to walk up the tower. It was an amazing view of Prague, but unfortunately when I went to the top, it was snowing, so my view was a little obstructed, but still amazing. Later in ...

... music bar, which was pretty cool. I got talking to a local by the name of Aleksandra, who also liked Metallica, so we got on quite well, so i decided that wed have dinner the following evening. So took her to a restaurant, english was quite good, as she learnt it at school since a young age, then showed me around a little. Think her family is going to NZ next year, so might just see her again. On Friday, we decided that we had to go to Auschwitz (largest Nazi concentration camp). We ...

... for a little bit. We decided to shop around and have some lunch before starting an afternoon tour. by the St. Charles Bridge We also went and saw an art exhibition while we were waiting. Alison and I went to one by Mucha, while Katharine and Lisa went to one by Salvador Dali. The Mucha paintings were absolutely gorgeous! Our afternoon tour was going to be for 4 hours. The weather was still extremely windy and cold, but it ...

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.