A trip to Prague and Pilsen offers gothic grandeur, friendly locals - and plenty of good Czech beer
Kudos to the Czechs! A trip to Prague and nearby Pilsen offers Gothic grandeur, friendly locals - and lots of good beerOliver Bennett enjoyed 'beer, food and culture' in Prague and PilsenHe visited the Purkmistr Beer Spa exterior of Pilsen for a beer-infused bath impressed by the "excellent" Museum of Communism
Spas are scented places with plinkety-plunk music. They don't tend to include baths full of lager. But the Purkmistr beer spa outside the Czech town of Pilsen offers precisely that.
In this steamy hotspot, I stepped into a bathtub with hot beer-infused water - and was given a one-liter dimple beer mug to fill from a barrel near the bath.
Beer - and I, sorry to say - were bottomless. I felt like Cleopatra for around £30 (), and it left me delirious.
I had been to Prague and in Pilsen on a trip to enjoy beer, food and culture ahead of the 30th anniversary of the separation of the Czech Republic and Slovakia on January 1. Luckily, the city dials up the swill-and-spill gang and goes for the greedy ones.
So shortly after landing, I dove into a deep Czech meal of garlic soup and duck at Café Imperial (), a place of Habsburg grandeur, and met guide Eva Vondrusova who raves about King Wenceslas, "the father of the Czech nation" .
This "Good King", also patron of wine, watches over the Republic and under threat, his heroic statue in Wenceslas Square will come to life and lead an army of zombies at war. Don't even think about it, Putin.
One cool morning, I gathered at Strahov Monastery...
Spas are scented places with plinkety-plunk music. They don't tend to include baths full of lager. But the Purkmistr beer spa outside the Czech town of Pilsen offers precisely that.
In this steamy hotspot, I stepped into a bathtub with hot beer-infused water - and was given a one-liter dimple beer mug to fill from a barrel near the bath.
Beer - and I, sorry to say - were bottomless. I felt like Cleopatra for around £30 (), and it left me delirious.
I had been to Prague and in Pilsen on a trip to enjoy beer, food and culture ahead of the 30th anniversary of the separation of the Czech Republic and Slovakia on January 1. Luckily, the city dials up the swill-and-spill gang and goes for the greedy ones.
So shortly after landing, I dove into a deep Czech meal of garlic soup and duck at Café Imperial (), a place of Habsburg grandeur, and met guide Eva Vondrusova who raves about King Wenceslas, "the father of the Czech nation" .
This "Good King", also patron of wine, watches over the Republic and under threat, his heroic statue in Wenceslas Square will come to life and lead an army of zombies at war. Don't even think about it, Putin.
One cool morning, I gathered at Strahov Monastery...
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