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<\/a>\"Overlooking<\/a>The Czech Republic\u00a0is a country my father could love.\u00a0 Not so much the walking around everywhere, because Prague is certainly a walking man’s city and my dad is not that kind of tourist.\u00a0 I’m mainly talking about the\u00a0cuisine.\u00a0\u00a0It is absolutely made to satisfy the midwestern pallet; it\u00a0is entirely based off of meat and potatoes and in such a way to require a beer in hand.\u00a0 To use Andy’s new favorite word, it’s dipsomaniacal<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sure, that may sound boring for some, but the thing about meat and potatoes is that when it’s done right it’s absolutely fantastic.\u00a0 And every meal I’ve had so far has been great, from street vendor sausage to pub-goulash.\u00a0\u00a0Sauerkraut,\u00a0pork, lamb, beef, potatoes, and bread are the basis for pretty much every standard Czech dish.\u00a0\u00a0The only thing I’ve seen that was outside of the meat & potatoes genre has been the ‘turdlo’ which\u00a0is a\u00a0thin dough baked on wide spinning cylinders, covered with a light dusting of sugar.\u00a0 And that, my friends, is delicious.<\/p>\n

As for what it’s like being in Prague:\u00a0it’s the history that\u00a0just astounds me.\u00a0 Being from America, I feel like I have such a shallow history, at least in terms of how short the history of my country is.\u00a0 Roughly 230+ years of history are nothing compared to the centuries of culture, history, stories, and lifetimes lived in a country like The Czech Republic, formerly Czechoslovakia, formerly Nazi German occupied, formerly part of Austria-Hungary, formerly…\u00a0 Realizing that the U.S.of A. has only had 2 major skirmishes on\u00a0our soil, and that scant few of our buildings are hardly over two centuries old, makes us look like wee babes in the world of geo-politicalness.\u00a0 So, wondering around castles that are older than my country kinda helps me put it all into perspective.
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\nWe have just seen the most beautiful things.\u00a0 It’s really hard to take it all in when every building looks like a work of art compared to what I walk past every day in the states.\u00a0 Between the castles, the bridges, the churches, and the museums I’ve had more input than I can really deal with in two days.\u00a0 And I’m love’n it. Today was a re-tour of the Prague Castle (we missed a lot on the first day) and the Museum of Communism.\u00a0 Andy and I also got the chance to explore Hradcany, which is the neighborhood around the castle.\u00a0 It was kind of nice to be on our own for the good part of the day and just explore at our leisure.<\/p>\n

(The picture below is from the Museum of Communism: this was propaganda in the late ’50s, inciting fear about possible American chemical warfare on the communists.\u00a0 Remember, kids, hold hands when you’re running for your life.)<\/p>\n

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The Czech Republic\u00a0is a country my father could love.\u00a0 Not so much the walking around everywhere, because Prague is certainly a walking man’s city and my dad is not that kind of tourist.\u00a0 I’m mainly talking about the\u00a0cuisine.\u00a0\u00a0It is absolutely made to satisfy the midwestern pallet; it\u00a0is entirely based off of meat and potatoes and … Continue reading touristically satisfied<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[29,27],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-prague","tag-vacation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}