Catch up: mid-May in Prague

Sunday (18.5 ) was a rainy day, I didnt do much, except for configuring the blog, eating and dishwashing J

One gets addicted to the internet quicker than I thought…

Monday was rain again, so we didn’t want to go out for lunch. We decided to have Indian food on the first floor, but without considering out 1800 colleagues, who also didn’t intend to leave the building. When we arrived at 12:30 everything was sold out (normally never happens till 13:00) and we had to think about an alternative.

Took some time, then we found a pizza delivery, another 50 minutes and we received 3 little boxes from a fairly unfriendly guy with fairly annoying facial expression.

Have a nice meal.

We all agreed there could have been better value for hits not even ‘main course size’ meal.

Tuesday was rainy again, everybody’s mood got worse and worse, and I started an adventurous tour to DHL Basketball at the other end of the city.

As I decided to choose the shortcut ‘bus->tram’ instead of the secure metro option, I was soon in traffic jam with the bus, that beeps horribly every time the doors close (it has 3 doors..; I wouldn’t go by bus in Germany if they had that noise; unreasonable). Then I transferred to the tram, it was raining heavily, just to find out theres a detour due to road building going on. So what, I got off and tried to make my way the the gym.

We skip the 20 minutes I walked in the rain, so arriving soaked at the gym, after a while finding the entrance, I found 4 guys chatting, none from DHL waiting for some other guy with the keys. I wasn’t even too late, got changed, and we had a nice game!

Unfortunately only for one hour, as they only booked the gym till 19:45, even though nobody was in after us, meaning we could have stayed some more half an hour…

Thursday, were now on 23^rd, I joined martin to go out in the evening, which was really nice. It was a bar near I.P. Pavlova, where we also live, and had many young people as well as life music. We got to know a bunch of people working in accounting for the Staropramen and Stella Artois brewery, a funny crowd, with many native French speakers

Only drawback: They were all smoking.

Yesterday wasn’t much going on, as I got a cold (annoying) and was down from work.

I wanted to go to bed early, but when I was just about going to sleep, thanks to friend who was asking if I wanted to join him on a beer, I woke up again…

Today weather is fine finally and I’ll head for the universities botanical garden after lunch!

Expect to take my 500^th flower picture

Annotation: After coming back, there were not many flower pics added. garden was boring,colorless.

New pictures on!

Tags: drink, food, Prague, sport

Visit Mala Strana

Thursday:
Public holiday: started out on a walk from 12 to 4pm, with my new shoes. At 4 I had many and big blisters, forcing me to go back to change to flip flops, but at least I was wandering round in new shoes….
After wandering round in the area, visiting tesco express (to look where in caseI turn out to get workaholic or suddenly hungry one can get food during the evening) I caught tram no 22 and got off where I thought it was beautiful. That happened to be in mala strana, next to seminarska zahrada, a peaceful, steep, even though crowded hill to climb on and have a wonderful view of Prague (see pictures). I’m keen on getting to the top of whatever is available to get a glance of the city before I jump into the crowd.
By the way very relaxing atmosphere people reading or lying on the grass, I’ll definitely go there again.
On the top is Petrin Tower, a reproduction of Eiffel Tower, just much smaller, and a plateau with nice gardens. Here I felt like meeting Kiron Toner, pursuing his summer job selling postcards with individual pictures under a too-low sunshade
I continued down the hill, across mala Strana, short detour to Tesco II and another shopping center (even open on public holidays) to look for a pick nick blanket, deciding on a stop for something to eat. The pizza place I chose was comfortable, even though one couldn’t sit ourside, and reasonably priced -> Tonno Pizza 
After eating I joined the crowd going over the Legion Bridge, stopping at the island in the middle of the river. It wasn’t too nice, and the promised beach was muddy, supposedly still due to the repeatedly heavy flooding.
On the way to the pedal boat hire my blisters complaint and I decided to go home, change shoes and leave to a park nearby.

My intentions to learn some Czech disappeared and I kept reading the lonely planet guide to plan further excursions

The evening Martin and I went out for a drink, came back thirsty but happy, having fled the swarm of tourists around Charles bridge and old town square (we ended up there, because I wanted to see these places at night, but couldn’t find a cosy place to have a drink).

Tags: drink, park, Prague, visit