8:30 am in Plzen, Czech Rep. That is where I'm at on this Sunday morning. I went down for Breakfast but aborted and returned to the room when I found no tables available, bringing a coffee back up with me.
I need more than one coffee this morning after enjoying an evening in a local brewery (Groll Brewery) followed by a walk back to the hotel across the town square which happened to be having a Wine festival with live music on a stage. The backdrop behind the stage being the Cathedral which gave the place extra atmosphere but none of it at all religious. No the only spirits here were from the bottle, or would have been if the government in Prague hadn't band the sale of Spirits last week across the whole country.
This is not a disaster for the country because one thing the Cz Rep isn't short of is beer and wine, and at prices that Britian enjoyed in the early 90's.
Its certainly with good fortune that BB and myself arrived at the square with just 30 min left on the clock before they pulled the curtain on the festival. Nevertheless we still managed to have one large plastic cup full to the brim plus another for the road. Literally for the road I was still nursing the cup when we arrived back at the hotel.
If you visit Plzen you should seek out the Groll brewery near the river (one of the rivers) and enjoy for me a jug of the Black Unfiltered lagers. Forget lagers as we know in the UK this lager is nothing like those. This is a lager for beer drinkers not lager drinkers. Check their website.
Time for another breakfast attempt followed by a medium distance bike ride (pedals no engine) and to be sure to be back in time to watch the F1 GP from Singapore. Weather looks good today, high thin cloud, neither hot nor cold. A perfect day for taking out the white 'Focus -lost Lagoon' pedal machine for a spin. A strange name for a bike, but oh well it does its job whatever it's called.
I need more than one coffee this morning after enjoying an evening in a local brewery (Groll Brewery) followed by a walk back to the hotel across the town square which happened to be having a Wine festival with live music on a stage. The backdrop behind the stage being the Cathedral which gave the place extra atmosphere but none of it at all religious. No the only spirits here were from the bottle, or would have been if the government in Prague hadn't band the sale of Spirits last week across the whole country.
This is not a disaster for the country because one thing the Cz Rep isn't short of is beer and wine, and at prices that Britian enjoyed in the early 90's.
Its certainly with good fortune that BB and myself arrived at the square with just 30 min left on the clock before they pulled the curtain on the festival. Nevertheless we still managed to have one large plastic cup full to the brim plus another for the road. Literally for the road I was still nursing the cup when we arrived back at the hotel.
If you visit Plzen you should seek out the Groll brewery near the river (one of the rivers) and enjoy for me a jug of the Black Unfiltered lagers. Forget lagers as we know in the UK this lager is nothing like those. This is a lager for beer drinkers not lager drinkers. Check their website.
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Time for another breakfast attempt followed by a medium distance bike ride (pedals no engine) and to be sure to be back in time to watch the F1 GP from Singapore. Weather looks good today, high thin cloud, neither hot nor cold. A perfect day for taking out the white 'Focus -lost Lagoon' pedal machine for a spin. A strange name for a bike, but oh well it does its job whatever it's called.
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