JJ lennak: Czech Republic

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Olomouc, Czech Republic

Nice square

We went to Krakow of Poland today. Starting from 8:00 am and arrived at about 3 am at Olomouc, Czech Republic, our first stop. We walked to the Holy Trinity pillar, world heritage and after that just a walk in the town about an hour and left for Krakow! Finally arrived at Krakow at 8:00 PM.

A church in town

I love this clock!

Holy Trinity pillar

Bohemian Glass in Prague and Pilsner Beer in Plzen, Czech Republic

With the recommendation from the hotel staff, today we went to Moser Bohemian glass factory. 125CZK/person for only the blowing of the glass process visit and then the museum! We had expected more like the engraving process too, so quite disappointed! The shop nearby the factory was not the outlet and as it was the product for royalty and celebrity around the world, the price was not affordable for us, indeed! So we bought nothing and left to our next visit of today, the world famous beer factory of Pilsner in Plzen city. The 2 hours factory tour was150CZK/person including a beer tasting at the end of the tour! Impressive!

Moser Bohemian Glass factory

The art of blown glass

Pilsner beer factory

High class products, high price!

Light meals before beer factory tour

The entrance of the beer factory

Very big factory

Depart from the reception building
to the factory nearby by this bus

Beer tasting from here

Huge tank!

The Charles Bridge and the Prague castle

Today we went to Prague Castle. It rained all day but because mostly we were inside the building so not much trouble! First to Vito church, when we were climbing up the stairs to the top, a old lady who was walking down and passing us saw me and she told us that I was still to young and that it was impossible for me to make it to the top! She didn't know me well!!! I easily made it to the top and faster than my mom!!! After that we walked around the castle and to the cathedral nearby and had light lunch with some snacks. Rain finally stopped by the time we finished the castle tour so we walked to the Charles Bridge and to the National Theater and then to the oldest beer hall in Prague. Delicious meals and beer with musical performance, it was fun!

Old clock inside the castle

View from the castle

The Cathedral

Very beautiful

Large hall inside the castle

Kind crown

Impressive stained glass

Ceiling

Outside the cathedral

The performance in Beer hall

The national theater is closed today!

The oldest beer hall in Prague

Inside the beer hall

With a lot of history!

The Prague Astronomical Clock and the old town square in Prague, Czech Republic

After breakfast at the hotel, we had the hotel staff to send us off to the Tram station. We got off tram at the powder gate station and walked from here to the old town square. A lot of Bohemia glass and Marionette shops were along the way as well as a lot of beautiful old buildings. We walked to the Astronomical Clock tower and by the elevator we could go to the top easily to see the beautiful view of the city. After that we walked to the Charles Bridge. We wanted to kept the rest for tomorrow so we walked back to the powder gate again. We stopped at the restaurant on the way, dad had beer and I and mom had some snacks and ice cream. After that we went back to the hotel, changed our dress for a special dinner for mom' s birthday at Gabriele Ristorante. We got lost for a while but finally we could make it to the restaurant safely. Appetizers were good, also carpaccio and pasta too. The last fish dish was also delicious. We ordered 3 kinds of desserts and mom ate almost all happily. At the end, unexpectedly, the restaurant didn't accept credit card and dad didn't have enough cash so he had to leave us in the restaurant and walked out to find the ATM! After dinner, we walked around to see the night view of Prague Castle and Charles Bridge, it was superb! No doubt we heard a lot of this town before!

Old town

European scenery

View from Clock tower

Another view from clock tower

The Astronomical Clock

The Prague castle in the back

Little performance in the clock tower

Huge crowds watching the performance

The old town square

Hard Rock Cafe

Charles Bridge view from Charles
Bridge Tower

Charles Bridge

The Powder Gate

Charles Bridge at night

The old town square at night

Mom's Birthday dinner in Prague

Prague, Czech Republic

We left home this afternoon and drove to Prague, Czech Republic. After about 4:30 hours, we arrived Prague around 7pm, just walked around nearby the hotel and have dinner at the hotel restaurant.

Holasovice Historical Village Reservation of Czech Republic

Historical building

Today we spent our morning in the hotel, had good breakfast in the historical room. After breakfast, we took a tour around the hotel and I found swing set on the roof floor of the hotel and spent quite a time there before walked to the next door church where the pipe organ was playing. Another of world heritage city was just about an hour by car on the way to Muncih so dad stopped by there. It was a very, very small old city with about 20 houses around approximately 800 meters square. The whole town could be seen form the square. One of the house was a Historical Museum which was a warehouse in the backyard showing tools that has been used in old time. A museum guide was an old man speaking English and very kind.