Monday, December 04, 2006
I made it!
I returned from 3 days of Prague with liver, kidneys, sanity, passport, wallet and phone intact! That might not sound like a big achievement but trust me, it was.
This was my third trip to Prague, I wouldn't have necessarily chosen it as a destination to go for a third time but it is a good city for a stag do. Lots of bars, cheap nice beer and food etc. It is getting a bit seedy. This time we were approached a lot by guys trying to coax us into strip bars (which they seemed to suggest doubled as brothels). The first time we heard the "no more wanking in the toilet!" pitch we thought it was funny but when you've heard the same line from 10 guys it gets old fast. Some were even more explicit in their sales pitch, but I won't go into that.
I didn't attend any of said clubs, at the end of the night I was much more interested in getting a hot sausage (oh no, the unintentional innuendo!) from the vendors at the end of wenceslas square. For some reason every time I ordered one of their delicious spicy Czech sausages in a roll, I really can't call them hot-dogs they are so much better than that, they'd give me 2! Very confusing. But delicious and a bonus for the others with me.
I can say that walking up a massive hill to get to the castle followed by 10,000,000 steps to the top of a cathedral tower is not the best thing to do on a massive hangover. I've done it before but you do forget quite how painful it actually is!
Anyway, Prague gets slightly more touristy, commercial and less soulfull every time I go. Still a great city and well worth a visit but it's not somewhere I'd necessarily go for a 4th time.
This was my third trip to Prague, I wouldn't have necessarily chosen it as a destination to go for a third time but it is a good city for a stag do. Lots of bars, cheap nice beer and food etc. It is getting a bit seedy. This time we were approached a lot by guys trying to coax us into strip bars (which they seemed to suggest doubled as brothels). The first time we heard the "no more wanking in the toilet!" pitch we thought it was funny but when you've heard the same line from 10 guys it gets old fast. Some were even more explicit in their sales pitch, but I won't go into that.
I didn't attend any of said clubs, at the end of the night I was much more interested in getting a hot sausage (oh no, the unintentional innuendo!) from the vendors at the end of wenceslas square. For some reason every time I ordered one of their delicious spicy Czech sausages in a roll, I really can't call them hot-dogs they are so much better than that, they'd give me 2! Very confusing. But delicious and a bonus for the others with me.
I can say that walking up a massive hill to get to the castle followed by 10,000,000 steps to the top of a cathedral tower is not the best thing to do on a massive hangover. I've done it before but you do forget quite how painful it actually is!
Anyway, Prague gets slightly more touristy, commercial and less soulfull every time I go. Still a great city and well worth a visit but it's not somewhere I'd necessarily go for a 4th time.
# posted by Mike @ 12:04 
