From Zurich to Prague
Last weekend Bee was in town and I took a jaunt over to Prague, just like I’ve always wanted to do ever since reading The Unbearable Lightness of Being and all of its romantic references about traveling between Zurich and Prague. Old town Prague looks like something Jules Verne invented and Walt Disney copied, a sort of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea adventure inundated by camera-snapping tourists waiting in long queues to get into various attractions. Outside the old town, Prague screams former Eastern Bloc city with subways going 150 feet underground and still sporting poorly hidden blast doors at the entrances. The highlight of this trip was of course some absurd “find a relative” adventure instigated by Bee, wherein we spent a couple of days waiting for some long lost cousin of hers to arrive, and then several more anxious hours wondering if this was indeed her long lost cousin and debating whether or not he was going to kill us. Instead, he took us to a fairly good Czech restaurant and let us order beer, beef, and dumplings, and the story had a happy ending minus his curly-haired translator friend hitting on Bee the entire evening.
And that’s Prague. Check out the full Prague gallery if you like the sample below, and if you’re really brave, view the Sex Machines Museum that I managed to drag Bee into on a Saturday.
June 16th, 2008 at 9:27 am
I believe that was pork and dumplings. I don’t think they have any other meat in Czech. Pork fat … is that technically different?