Wow, I'm exhausted! First, let me say that the B&B we are staying at couldn't possibly be better. The beds, although smaller than a standard twin and so close together that Amy and I are sharing a King size blanket, are very comfy. I don't think I even rolled over last night. I slept like a rock.
In the morning they serve a buffet style breakfast with the most delicious sweetbreads, coffee, ham, a variety of cheeses, including brie (yay!), yogurt, cereal, juices, etc. The innkeepers are super helpful and got us reservations to a vegetarian restaurant that Amy had read in her Rick Steve's travel guide. After breakfast we set out to tour the monastery and Prague Castle. We stopped for lunch at the vegetarian restaurant and it was FABULOUS! It was so good that we tried to go back for dinner but couldn't get in without a reservation. I had a baked goat cheese salad with cranberry sauce and walnuts, risotto with tempura and veggies, and a piece of cheesecake with strawberry sauce for dessert. We also ordered hot chocolate for dessert and it was so thick and creamy that it had to be eaten with a spoon. Was basically like eating hot pudding... was the most delicious thing ever. We're going back tomorrow and I'm already salivating just thinking about it!
Outside the Prague Castle we found a little Absinthe shop and the owner made us a drink to share. He placed a sugar cube in a slotted spoon on top of the glass, then poured the absinthe over the cube. He then poured water into the glass. Then he lit the cube on fire, poured in more absinthe. We were so excited to taste it, probably just because its a forbidden fruit back in the states. But, quite honestly, it tasted like hairspray. We shared 1 drink, fortunately, because I don't think either of us could have finished our own drink. And, we certainly couldn't have walked around after it! It was a pretty potent drink!
We walked all day today, from 10:30 am to midnight. I wish I had worn a pedometer to see how much we've walked. I'm sure it was many miles. While we were wandering around Old Town we were stopped by an American guy, Josh, from Florida. He's here with his mother visiting his ailing grandmother and heard us speaking English. We chatted for a long while while walking around the city in search of Josh's apartment and a bar he wanted to take us to. We wandered for quite a while before finally getting to his place so he could drop off a beer glass he had bought. While he dropped it off, Amy and I sat to have a pilsner. Then we went next door to an Italian restaurant where we had pizza for dinner. We made it back to the subway (Metro) at 11:30 and ran into two American girls that are staying at the same B&B as us. They're studying in Milan this semester and just in Prague until tomorrow. Kind of a small world that we ran into them at the Metro stop!
So, that was the day! It rained for most of the day, but the sun did finally peak its head out around 7pm. It felt really good to have some sunshine. It's still a bit chilly, but it's not unbearable.
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