I've continued to explore around my new neighborhood, and I've had some awesome finds!! I discovered an AMAZING bakery that is conveniently located across the street from my morning tram stop. I first went in about a week ago, and by now they already know what I want when I show up 4 days a week at 7 am! :D
I've also been busy stocking up on the last of the season's Burchak, a Czech summer wine that's still in the process of fermenting. It's delicious! Fairly sweet, slightly carbonated, and the alcohol content varies drastically batch to batch and day to day. They sell it by the glass or in these huge 2 L plastic bottles to take home. According to my Czech friends, if you let burchak sit in the plastic 2 L bottle for a few days it will explode because it is still fermenting? I'm not sure, none has ever stayed in the bottle that long.
I've also been busy ignoring all my friends and roommates who have been telling me that last Thursday was going to be the last warm day in Prague for six months. I told them it was impossible to change from shorts and light-sweater weather to full on layers overnight.... and I was wrong. Luckily we fit in another trip to the beer gardens before the cold set in...
Sunset at the beer garden
We also went to a light show they do every saturday in the summer on the Astronomical clock tower in Old Town square. It was awesome!! It is a 10 minute light show detailing the history of the Czech republic as seen on this hundreds-year-old clock tower! Very cool. I didn't take this video, and the show I saw was slightly different, but you get the idea :D
The weekend has been the usual, out "lesson planning" at bars with my coworkers. Friday night we went to a group favorite that is in a cave. The top floor is a wine tasting bar (where I first discovered burchak) that looks all classy and like my friends and I don't belong.... Then you wind your way around to the back, and there is an ominous twisting staircase leading you down into a cave (the former wine cellar of the above wine bar). You end up in a really cool underground bar with as many foosball tables as actual tables (foosball is HUGE in Prague, every bar has a few, most of the schools I teach at have them in game rooms. They take this ish seriously. and they dont appreciate untalented individuals spinning their little guys, FYI) It was pretty fun, but after a few hours in an underground bar with no ventilation and smokers galore, it got to be a bit much and we headed out.
Saturday I went to an art exhibition called After Velvet at the Golden Ring in Old Town. It was incredible!! The show was focused on Czech art created after the Velvet Revolution (1989. if you don't know of it, google it. It's an amazing story) The exhibition was fantastic, extremely well organized and well thought out. It incorporated artwork of all different media; paintings (on canvas, some directly on the museum walls), photos, sculptures, video installations, and the first performance piece I have ever seen. Very cool. We definitively spent about four hours wandering the halls :) Then I stepped outside to an amazing view of Tyn Church
Tyn, Old Town, Prague
Then we all went to a great dinner at a vegetarian restaurant, bar hopping for a few hours, then I had an awesome nighttime photo-shoot on my way home :)
The National Theater in Prague
Detail of the National Theater (I really like this building...)
Creepy moon and awesome building
St. Wenceslas Church in my neighborhood
That's all for now! Till next time, faithful followers :)
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