{"id":10535,"date":"2014-11-07T01:26:53","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T06:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/?p=10535"},"modified":"2015-03-13T22:50:24","modified_gmt":"2015-03-14T02:50:24","slug":"aha-praha-the-prague-report-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/2014\/11\/07\/aha-praha-the-prague-report-part-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Aha! Praha&#8211; The Prague Report Part Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2014\/09\/praha1.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2014\/09\/praha1.jpg\" alt=\"praha1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10536\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m hoping that it will not come as a great shock to you that there are two sides to the Vtlava\/Moldau river, and in Praha one side has more of the old city\u2026see above and one side has more of the new city\u2026.<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2014\/09\/praha2.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2014\/09\/praha2.jpg\" alt=\"praha2\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10537\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So to get around in this very large city of 1.25 million people, we took the usual trams\u2026<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2014\/09\/praha3.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2014\/09\/praha3.jpg\" alt=\"praha3\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10538\"><\/a>  Walking tours are grand, but man cannot live on touring alone, so we stopped for a nice lunch in an old Czech restaurant which served\u2014 wait for it,  pork butt on a spit!<br>\nThe Czech version of barbecue\u2026  I should say first however that we passed on the crocodile sandwiches\u2026.<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2014\/09\/praha4.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2014\/09\/praha4.jpg\" alt=\"praha4\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10539\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Never go to a sandwich place where they misspell the meat in the sandwich\u2026<br>\nor where they have this guy advertising on the street for the restaurant!<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2014\/09\/praha5.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2014\/09\/praha5.jpg\" alt=\"praha5\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10540\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also, do not accept sardines that have been swimming in a skull tank!<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2014\/09\/praha6.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2014\/09\/praha6.jpg\" alt=\"praha6\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10541\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Go instead to a traditional Czech restaurant where they serve pork butt, and traditional goat beer!<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2014\/09\/praha7.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2014\/09\/praha7.jpg\" alt=\"praha7\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10542\"><\/a>   Yes, they say that beer will really get your goat \ud83d\ude42 But back to pork butt\u2026 and no more ifs and ands\u2026.<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2014\/09\/praha8.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.production.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/files\/2014\/09\/praha8.jpg\" alt=\"praha8\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10543\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2014\/09\/praha9.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2014\/09\/praha9.jpg\" alt=\"praha9\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10544\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the menu if you prefer another Czech delicacy.<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2014\/09\/praha10.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2014\/09\/praha10.jpg\" alt=\"praha10\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10545\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The restaurant was subterranean, and quite quaint\u2026.<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2014\/09\/praha11.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.production.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/files\/2014\/09\/praha11.jpg\" alt=\"praha11\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10546\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2014\/09\/praha12.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2014\/09\/praha12.jpg\" alt=\"praha12\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10547\"><\/a><br>\nThey also offered traditional cheeses etc.<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2014\/09\/praha13.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2014\/09\/praha13.jpg\" alt=\"praha13\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10548\"><\/a><br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2014\/09\/praha15a.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2014\/09\/praha15a.jpg\" alt=\"praha15a\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10550\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No cholesterol here, no sirree.  After all that I needed a capuccino a large one\u2026.<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2014\/09\/praha14.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2014\/09\/praha14.jpg\" alt=\"praha14\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10549\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Then having \u2018pigged out\u2019, it was time to walk it all off.  <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m hoping that it will not come as a great shock to you that there are two sides to the Vtlava\/Moldau river, and in Praha one side has more of the old city\u2026see above and one side has more of the new city\u2026. 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