Being a Friday. Tanya’s sore, I’m sore, yea, walked a bit too much yesterday. But it’s 07:15, the sun is up, and the city awaits.
So this time we take the tram up the road to Malovanka and… start walking.
There’s a lookout tower at the top of Petřín hill. And they’re mercenary, to take the stairs to the top costs 250Kc but if you want the elevator it’s 400Kc. Not that we went up, it was (1) a dull day and (2) way too early, they only open at 10.
So we wandered down the hill.
Pity about it being such a dull day.
About half way down the hill you will find the Nebozízek restaurant. They only open at 11:00, but the bartender will happily sell you a beer and a soda for cash. And yea, beer at 09:30. Nobody judges in Prague.
At the bottom of the hill we too were feeling a bit like these guys (Memorial to the Victims of Communism, Olbram Zoubek, 2002). Tried to pop into Pivnice U Švejků for a something (i.e. beer) but the dude figured they’re not open yet. Dude, this is money walking past your door. You obviously work for a boss.
U Knoflíčků however was great, Tanya had an open sarmie, I had a really good coffee.
Jumped on the tram over the river, got in the queue(!) for the Tower Of Books.
The inside of the library is quite nice too.
Looks like Hany Bany has two settings, busy and closed.
Around here I realised that I should probably buy rail tickets to Bratislava (for Sunday), so we took the tram to the train station. Good thing I did too, because the EC279 I had intended to take was fully booked, so we had to get tickets on the roughly 20% more expensive RJ1043.
Tanya was feeling peckish and I had a pointer to a poutine(!) place so back on the Metro to Karlin and walk around the corner to Garage Poutine.
We shared a small Classic for about R80, with a coke and (of course) a beer, very good and recommended.
And then we buggered off back to the AirBnB for some time out.
Half past three-ish we were ready to go out again, and there were a few places on my list that I though worth investigating, so Metro-and-tram to Žižkov where they have a farmer’s market and also Funwari.
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Sadly, they were out of stock of the Neko Purin :-(
The Telkom tower dominates. Note the “babies” crawling up and down — they’re by David Černý, and there are ten of them I’m told.
The tower should make a really nice lookout on a good day (that’s the floor with the large windows), and it’s also a hotel (smaller windows above) if you’re prepared to spend around a thousand Euros per night for two people sharing. That’s about what out plane tickets cost. For both of us. Return.
So we grabbed the tram again, this time to Bašta, where Tanya had the duck and I… had beer. Lots of good beer. And the little shop next door had Becherovka in liter bottles for a good price. And as always we got some wine.
And then the #18 tram took us all the way home.