Forget about the Czech absinthe. It is just high-procent anice tasting stuff.
There are way better things to concentrate on if you're in that country.
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22I recommend that you do not walk into a lampost within half an hour of ariving in Prague and spend the next few days looking like your face is where you keep your eggs. I tried this when I went there and it wasn't so good.
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23I will dig out my trip diary from Prague to find the address of the absolute best meal I have ever had: a steak from the White Cow.
I stayed at the Aparthotel Denisa which was clean and right next to the Devicka subway station.
I don't care how many people tell you "oh, this is SUCH a tourist thing to do" but dammit, GO SEE THE ASTRONOMICAL CLOCK. It takes 10 minutes of your time, and it's pretty cool. It's been running like that since 1490. 1490!
In Kutna Hora, which is just outside Prague (a short ride by bus, IIRC), there is the Sedlec Ossuary - a rally neato bone repository where some eccentric sculptor named Rint took the skulls and spines and such from dead people and made them into chandeliers and such. Awesome.
I also went to Cesky-Krumlov, where Egon Schiele spent some time with his good pal Gustav Klimt ogling young girls and making some amazing art. The Koh-i-Noor "factory" was there too, and I watched some old guys assembling Rapidograph pens for an hour.
Prague is beautiful, in a fairy-tale sort of way. There's lots of stuff to see. I can't wait to go back.
I stayed at the Aparthotel Denisa which was clean and right next to the Devicka subway station.
I don't care how many people tell you "oh, this is SUCH a tourist thing to do" but dammit, GO SEE THE ASTRONOMICAL CLOCK. It takes 10 minutes of your time, and it's pretty cool. It's been running like that since 1490. 1490!
In Kutna Hora, which is just outside Prague (a short ride by bus, IIRC), there is the Sedlec Ossuary - a rally neato bone repository where some eccentric sculptor named Rint took the skulls and spines and such from dead people and made them into chandeliers and such. Awesome.
I also went to Cesky-Krumlov, where Egon Schiele spent some time with his good pal Gustav Klimt ogling young girls and making some amazing art. The Koh-i-Noor "factory" was there too, and I watched some old guys assembling Rapidograph pens for an hour.
Prague is beautiful, in a fairy-tale sort of way. There's lots of stuff to see. I can't wait to go back.
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24Globe Cafe and Bookstore
Radost FX bar
I'm slightly surprised to find that both of these joints still exist, but they ruled 12 years ago and probably still do.
Also you could visit Kafka's grave in the old Jewish cemetary, if you have a mind to. I did and was not sorry.
Radost FX bar
I'm slightly surprised to find that both of these joints still exist, but they ruled 12 years ago and probably still do.
Also you could visit Kafka's grave in the old Jewish cemetary, if you have a mind to. I did and was not sorry.
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25ctrl-s wrote:Also you could visit Kafka's grave in the old Jewish cemetary, if you have a mind to.
I did that too. It's in the "new" Jewish cemetery, on the opposite sode of the city from the "really old" Jewish cemetery, which is next to the Pinkas Synagogue. The really old cemetery is where Rabbi Loew, AKA The Guy Who Created the Golem, is buried.