Tue 20 Jun 2006
As most of you know the World Cup is this year and everyone is soccer crazy over here. There are people from all over the world in the Czech Republic to watch games. My buddy Dan told me to go to the town square of any European city to find a game and I did and there was! People, food, and beer everywhere… They had a hung jumbtron out showing all the games.
I hope you noticed when entering the blog today I switched up the header to a more appropriate travel theme. I took that shot of the Prazsky hrad (Prague Castle) at night from the Karluv most (St. Charles Bridge). I will get a better shot tomorrow evening at the magic hour. I am also going to shoot the bridge this morning at sunrise if I don’t fall asleep. It is about 3:45 AM local time…
One more interesting thing I learn… There is more pivo (beer) consummed in the Czech Republic per capita than anywhere else in the world! It’s the home of the origanl Pilsner Urquell. It all makes sense when we got into town this morning about 10:30 AM local time and there were people at the Hospodas (pubs) having a beer. Even moreover, I notice large groups of people having a draft and most of them were women. At this one place we walked by there was an old couple probably in there mid-to-late 60′s having a brew.
“Neni pivo jako pivo” (There’s no beer like beer) a local phrase.
