Prague: Bells and Castles

Food

Number of ham and cheese sandwiches I've had: 48

Most deceptive sandwich that ended up being a ham and cheese: Chicken Cordon Blue

Best mistranslated menu item: Tie between "Intense Chocolate" and "Frying Pain Fish"

Living

Charlatan of the week: Davis' blog

I traveled to Prague for a weekend and was greeted by gray skies and sweet castles. Czech Republic is pretty wacky. My first meal there was ostrich which tasted more like steak than chicken and I passed about 10 marionette and glassware stores. Even the tourist-y glass shops had a wide selection of chandeliers to buy, which is the single most impractical thing someone who is traveling could get. In case puppets or crystal bells aren't your thing, you could always take home an ornate decorative egg or a large wooden Santa. Oddities aside, the large portions of meats were a relief from the tyranny of ham and olive oil in Spain.


I felt that a vampire movie could have started at any time. The nightlife was a bit quieter, but we were offered "sexy girls and sexy prices" by one guy. Probably the most interesting event was getting baked and going to this.

Fun Fact: In Prague, there are signs for how far away the nearest McDonalds is