On our last day, we took a tour bus to Czesky Krumlov, a city 3 hours south of Prague to see the second biggest castle in the Czech Republic. Our tour guide was a really nice, albino looking guy, but we also slept through most of the bus ride there. The city was so beautiful, yet quaint--like something straight out of a story book.
We finally got home later that evening around 8 pm, so we went to Pilsner Urquell, a chain restaurant made by the most famous Czech beer. We ordered half a duck for 8 dollars!! And the beer... perfect! It was my favorite beer of the whole trip.
Look at that!!
The castle itself was eh... a lot of it was painted on the outside to make it look more extravagant.
All those "bricks" are painted! Isn't that weird?
We climbed up these rickity stairs of the bell tower to get this view... but oh it was worth it!!
I loved the moat around the city. I've never seen a real one!
Then we went to this amazing restaurant... it was like inside a cave with low stone, rounded ceilings, with hard, old wooden tables. There was a fire pit with meat grilling on it and everything. It just felt so... old, medieval European. We had lunch with this couple that we had been seeing through the whole trip because they were going through Gate 1 too. They reminded me of my own parents--a really chatty, petite mom with her quiet-but-makes-great-jokes-when-least-expected husband.
We got these great Czech Budweisers (Budweiser was originally a Czech beer! Isn't that cool? Then Americans stole the name... of course). I got a little drunk heh.
We ordered pork, and it was SO GOOD. Perfectly cooked and seasoned, and with the beer. yum. I felt like a really masculine European man.
We finally got home later that evening around 8 pm, so we went to Pilsner Urquell, a chain restaurant made by the most famous Czech beer. We ordered half a duck for 8 dollars!! And the beer... perfect! It was my favorite beer of the whole trip.
It came with these "dumplings," which is really just boiled bread. Weird. But the beer... I think I found my new favorite light beer!
And then it was time for bed because we were leaving the next morning. :( It was such a great trip of adventures, and I wish I had more time to explore! If I were to go again, I wouldn't even try to go to the touristy places and just meander around the cities and stumble upon places because that's how we got to see some of the coolest places. Budapest seems like a really cool hippy city--perfect for me--and Prague seems like an enchanting, romantic-in-a-medieval-way city.
Where should I go next??
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