Yay -it's another travel day and therefore another 8am departure from the hostel. We're feeling great after the big day yesterday and the drinks in the beer tent. We're definitely feeling a lot
better than the Aussie guy Peter, who gets on, then rushes off to be sick all over the park right eside the bus. He was able to multitask mind you, as he talked to his dad back home while being ill. We can't understand why you'd come all the way to the other side of the world to stare at the bottom of a glass, sleep off a hangover in the hostel and then sober up on the bus ride to your next drinking city... but each to their own I guess!
One of our stops today is a lot more interesting than the normal auto grill. We go to the Terizin prison camp, another of the 2000 camps throughout the Nazi zone of influence during WWII. This was a prison long before the Nazi used it sort out captives and was even used later as a prison for the Nazi commandant before his trial for war crimes. We liked the fact that he had to sleep in the same cells he stuffed dozens of innocent people into, although he wouldn't have been treated as barbarically as those under his guard. Our group of 32 people filed into a cell and felt claustrophobic, thinking there wasn't any room for any other people. We were then told that up to 60 people would be held there, with the large window boarded, leaving only an A5 sized hole for 'fresh air' to come in. No one was exterminated here... but the conditions resulted in massive numbers of deaths -murder in our books. The tour was a condensed version because of the Busabout timetable, but it's great that those people that couldn't get to the bigger camps had a glimpse at the atrocities. In the car park was a booth for us to change our remaining US dollars (!) for Czech Crowns -because today we had crossed yet another boarder to Prague, the capital of Czech Republic. We're not staying at the Busabout accommodation this time, so we told to "get off" the bus by the Plus receptionist and we find our way a very short distance to our much smaller Hostel Spoas. It's a pretty cosy spot and one of the first things we do is launch into our wheel of Dutch cheese with Mike's
Swiss knife and enjoy it's quality (and quantity!). The hostel has very comfy beds -and the traveling has caught up with Mike a little, but luckily a nana nap takes care of this while Shona types and types and types. The guide Nicole on the bus had VERY highly recommended a little restaurant 10 mins walk from where everyone else is based. Unfortunately we're a little late to meet her as she walks there, so instead we're left to wander this (slightly ghettoish) area of Prague looking for food by ourselves. We pass the restaurant with the bowling lanes (!) that she also mentioned, get a little turned around and finally find a place that looks pretty good. We very quickly realise that it's the place she's recommended, because inside it's chocka full of Aussies. We see why it's Nicole's favourite as we each launch into a decent sized, brilliantly cooked, steak with pepper sauce. The local beer is wonderful, the wine is great and the bean / bacon / meat sauce side dish is a real highlight. Best of all the total meal cost 720 crown, less than half of what the Berlin steakhouse would have stung us!
One of our stops today is a lot more interesting than the normal auto grill. We go to the Terizin prison camp, another of the 2000 camps throughout the Nazi zone of influence during WWII. This was a prison long before the Nazi used it sort out captives and was even used later as a prison for the Nazi commandant before his trial for war crimes. We liked the fact that he had to sleep in the same cells he stuffed dozens of innocent people into, although he wouldn't have been treated as barbarically as those under his guard. Our group of 32 people filed into a cell and felt claustrophobic, thinking there wasn't any room for any other people. We were then told that up to 60 people would be held there, with the large window boarded, leaving only an A5 sized hole for 'fresh air' to come in. No one was exterminated here... but the conditions resulted in massive numbers of deaths -murder in our books. The tour was a condensed version because of the Busabout timetable, but it's great that those people that couldn't get to the bigger camps had a glimpse at the atrocities. In the car park was a booth for us to change our remaining US dollars (!) for Czech Crowns -because today we had crossed yet another boarder to Prague, the capital of Czech Republic. We're not staying at the Busabout accommodation this time, so we told to "get off" the bus by the Plus receptionist and we find our way a very short distance to our much smaller Hostel Spoas. It's a pretty cosy spot and one of the first things we do is launch into our wheel of Dutch cheese with Mike's 
Swiss knife and enjoy it's quality (and quantity!). The hostel has very comfy beds -and the traveling has caught up with Mike a little, but luckily a nana nap takes care of this while Shona types and types and types. The guide Nicole on the bus had VERY highly recommended a little restaurant 10 mins walk from where everyone else is based. Unfortunately we're a little late to meet her as she walks there, so instead we're left to wander this (slightly ghettoish) area of Prague looking for food by ourselves. We pass the restaurant with the bowling lanes (!) that she also mentioned, get a little turned around and finally find a place that looks pretty good. We very quickly realise that it's the place she's recommended, because inside it's chocka full of Aussies. We see why it's Nicole's favourite as we each launch into a decent sized, brilliantly cooked, steak with pepper sauce. The local beer is wonderful, the wine is great and the bean / bacon / meat sauce side dish is a real highlight. Best of all the total meal cost 720 crown, less than half of what the Berlin steakhouse would have stung us!
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That is one good looking cheese you have there!
ReplyDeleteit's awesome that you two are czeching out some non-traditional tourist destinations :p
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