Pragueduct Placement

That's right, the puns are endless when it comes to our latest trip. Only 5 hours away from Berlin, Prague was a very convenient and relatively inexpensive getaway. The skies stayed gray the entire time but it was worth it for the lack of tourists and excuse to duck into a pub. Czech out our Prague Top Ten list (non-architectural) . . .

10. Přebalovna. Seriously that was a sign at a kid's park , what could it possibly mean? Naked Sasquatche with frog puppet zone?

9. Sausage and lots of it.

8. The marketing of Franz Kafka

7. Breweries on every corner with pints of tasty beer in them.

6. Veselá Kráva (la Vache Qui Rit!)

5. Dumplings. But not the traditional Czech ones that are mostly just boiled bread dough with a few bits of stuff mixed in. We are talking delicious Hungarian dumplings that we found in a great little café (thanks Nazia). Filled with potatoes onions and topped with sour cream and spicy Hungarian sausages. So maybe that doesn't belong here but our week long quest to find the perfect dumpling proved fruitful. Or should I say potatofull...

4. Sculptures of Babies crawling up Žižkov Television Tower (It's a David Černý thing that is supposed to be representative of the teenagers who make babies in the park below the tower.)

3. Czech Hockey. Watch for the video of the Czech vs Finland game we attended in search for some replacement Habs. There were more Hadamcziks and Slavomirs than we knew what to do with. Try taunting a goalie who's last name has letters in it that you've never even seen before! It was also our friend Nazia's first live Hockey game.

2. Tram rides through the narrow city streets. The winding streets of the old city were particularly captivating as the sun set and the lights slowly twinkled on.

and the number one things we liked about Prague is...

1. Lentilky (derived from Latin, which is unusual in a Slavic country - Len being the Latin for a bean and of course ilky from milky = Smarties being a milky bean. An apt description of a tasty candy.)