Well... the weather forecasts doesn't look promising... dark clouds shadowing the sky... why does it have to be so gloomy... its drizzling outside! Arghhh! Gave us some time to snap a few shots outside out room :P
Rants aside, we are still determined to make the best of this day! Above average free buffet breakfast at the hotel... Most of the patrons are young couples.... the hotel's advert is really successful I guess :P
Coffee maker... if you noticed, the design emphasizes on a "homely concept" eating place, staffs are friendly too :)
Using the 24-hour pass we bought yesterday (which expires later in the evening), we took a tram to
Malostranské náměstí. Starting from here you can see Church of St Nicholas and hike all the way up to Prague Castle area.
Which looks pretty near, huh? Give it a try, and yes, its a hike :P
What's different in this cities architecture is there are a lot of statues all over the historical buildings!
Weather condition gotten worse, had to take shelter and a hot cup of coffee. You will never go wrong with Illy :P
Rain became drizzles so time to move on... Something interesting along the way to Prague's Castle... gold Panamera :)
Taken just before reaching Hradčany Square...
Here's a map we found from planetware.com:
Schwarzenberg Palace:
Next to it is the National Gallery
Salmov's Palace on the left:
First Courtyard, tourists come here in bus loads! its very difficult to find a good timing to take a photo, what's more we are using a tripod:
The famous St Vitus Cathedral! Beautiful and I personally think it looks like this medieval structures found in vampire movies/games :P
It was raining and almost everyone was going in! Had a toilet break and we walked around the cathedral and continued out journey
Charles bridge from Prague Castle
Something you don't see often... proud looking boy with a golden "bird"... and surprisingly most of the tourists taking photos of it are Asians... being an Asian myself :P
Going down Staré zámecké schody (Old Castle Stairs)... there are a lot of souvenier shops along the way, you may try your haggling skills here. We bought 2 small sized paintings and framed it with an Ikea frame :P
We went across via Charles Bridge, there is no way one can take photos here because there's just too many people... many were gathered in groups for the local tours... plus it was raining, you can only see umbrellas :x
We were exhausted and hungry so we had a lunch break at V Zátiší. A very good Czech fusion fine dining restaurant, the most expensive meal we had on this trip :P
We ordered two 2 course meals. There was a choice of a starter or a dessert, we opted for one of each. Starting with some bread and traditional Kulajda soup (sour cream soup with potatoes, mushrooms, dill and quail egg).
2 mains, a fish and a duck
Fish is fresh, lightly pan fried juicy Pikeperch fillet. Goes very well with the roasted potato gnocchi, orange sauce, carrot pureé
The duck sauce tasted very much like Chinese braise duck, meat is tender, surprisingly good eating together with the red cabbage puree :)
Dessert is apple strudel! We think its better than the one we had in Salzburg. The pastry is out of this world! Its more presentable too!
Around €70 for a 2 pax lunch might be exorbitant for average people, but its totally worth the experience and money!
Why? Because last Christmas Eve, I paid more
than €100 for a dinner in an overrated fine dining restaurant in KL with not even half the quality and the portion in addition super lousy service!
Almost forgot about this cute little unique bottle to store Olive oil and Balsamic vinegar :P
After lunch we continued walking around trying to get a good snap of Charles Bridge. Look at the crowd on the bridge :x
Started to rain heavier again, so we took the tram and got off the next stop at
Národní třída. There is a Shopping Mall with a Tesco in it, My Narodni.
Spent a few hours here and noticed that the clothing are neither the latest nor cheap... We did try to look for baby clothes but choice and brands are limited. Time flies... its already dinner time and the rain kinda stopped, we took a tram back to Karlovy lázně stop.
Since we have been on heavy meat for the past few days, so I planned a vegetarian dinner instead. There were pretty good reviews and rating in Tripadvisor, so we gave it a try... Lehka Hlava (Clear Head)... no idea why "Clear Head" :)
Fantastic drinks by the way, we ordered Ginger Lime Thai (very refreshing!) and Coco Fogo Sunrise (pic below)
For starters, we ordered the "tofoie gras" and soup of the day. Foie gras but made using toufoo, dipped with bread, wasn't that bad (slightly awkward combo since cashew nut, toufoo and cranberries have their own unique taste, didn't blend that well? :P)
Main course, we ordered the first 2 from the mains section. Grilled goat cheese on potato au gratin and steamed spinach. Our first time trying goat cheese, the smell and taste is quite strong. The grilled parts of the cheese matches very well with walnut and spinach! The gooey part inside... umm... too strong :P
Grilled vegetable kebabs, also with potato au gratin. The potato au gratin is really good! Looks like a slice of cake does it? Well, its made from thin slices of grilled potatoes, absolutely stunning taste!
The kebabs? Perfectly grilled... the vegetable and mushrooms juices are still locked in and oozes out with every bite!
The portion is pretty huge though and it feels soooo good eating vegetables after so much heavy meat for the past few days :D
Bill is very reasonable, its vegetables anyway,
€22-23? :)
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