23/01/2015 - Today we woke up early and we had breakfast in the hotel. It is from 6.15 a.m. till 10.00 a.m. It's a continental breakfast, with mostly bread, eggs, bacon and salty food. They also have some marmelade and some crepes if you like it sweet. We drove for almost three hours, then we spent the morning in having meeting. We ended at 2 p.m., not haveing lunch yet. I was quite full, as I ate a lot of strawberries and other stuff during the meeting. We decided to stop in a Billa supermarket to buy some beers (we tasted it yesterday and we liked it too much), so we got 24 bottles of Gambrinus (unpastorised) beer, three eight bottles pack.
We paid 124 Kc plus 3 Kc deposit a bottle. We also ate some sandwiches, both salty and sweet. We reached our apartment in Prague at about 5 p.m. The name is Anyday Apartments, and they are quite central (not too central, as we have a car and we need the parking). We paid 150 € for 3 nights, and 10 € a night for the private parking next to the hotel. The apartment is big and clean, on the 4th floor. There's really everything you need, we are already thinking about having some pasta. Almost soon after we decided to have a walk in the city centre. We went through Venceslas Square, stopping in U Dvou Sester to eat. We ate a Traditional roast pork with Czech dumplings and sauerkraut, a Bohemian-style braised beef in cream sauce, bread dumplings and cranberries and a Traditional Czech beef goulash with dumplings. Drinking two small beers and a big one, we spent 600 Kc and something. Right in the centre. Then we had to come back as my parents were freezing.
22/01/2015 - I’m going
with mum and dad to Prague, again, but this time for work. We left at 9.15 this
moring and, as we are travelling by car, it took us almost 8 hour to reach our
hotel in Plzen. We just stopped to eat something in a Mc Donald’s and later on
for the fuel+toilet+coffee combo. Let’s talk about the toilet. No one ever
talks about the toilets. I think that this is kinda important. In this place
there was some toilets called Saniform or something like this. They were a little bit expensive (0,70
€), but then you receive a coupon of 0,5 € value to spend in the self service
and in the little supermarket, so you actually pay 0,20 €. They were so clean!
After you flush the seat starts rotating ad it cleans up by itself!
That’s simply amazing. Anyway, my parents got a XXL cafè cream and I got a
fruits tea, both from Dallmayr (about 4,6 € after the discount). We reached our
hotel in Plzen (the Hotel Plzen) at about 6 p.m. It’s 70 € for a triple room,
with breakfast and private parking included (with booking.com). The room is
quite big and clean, the double bed is huge.
The bathroom is nice as well, and
not small at all. We found some Mentos, cotton pads and ear plugs on each pillow. Almost soon after, we had a walk till the city centre, which
it’s just 5 minute far away. We took some pictures in the main square, then we
had a look around to find a place where to eat. We found a steak house next to
the river, The Angus Steak House, which my mum read about in the Lonely Planet guide,
but unfortunately it was full. They told us that there is another restaurant on
the other side of the square which is owned by the same person. So we went
downstairs (most of the time you have to go downstairs to eat) and we sat in
this a little bit more modern version of The Original. My father wanted to try
a gulash (it is three days that he is like “gulash, gulash, gulash”), so he got
gulash and my mum and I had a beef mix (filet, rib eye and another piece of meat
that I cannot remember, served with vegetables cooked in a strange way) along
with three small unpastorized beers. It was more that delicious. The meat was
really good, we read that it is from Czech farms, and the beer was special. We
ended up spending about 44 €. Now, straight to bed, as tomorrow we have to wake
up at 6 a.m.
10/12/2014 - Today my mum and I went to Milan to buy some Christmas gift and to see a Van Gogh exhibition in Palazzo Reale. Luckly the train was late as always, so we were able to catch it. Once there, we walked from Cadorna train station till the cathedral, stopping at Lush. My mum fell in love with it and she ended up buying a Ultrabalm (14€). When we reached Palazzo Reale we decided to see the Segantini exhibition istead of the Vang Gogh one. We had some shopping later on, waiting for the Christmas tree in the evening.
08/12/2014 - As Alessio today didn't have to work, we decided to have a look at Como and its Christmas lights. We left at 4 p.m., and it took us almost an hour to get to the city centre and park. As we saw the traffic becoming bigger, we went near my university and parked there (10 minutes walk from the city centre). There was not that much Christmas stuff, but the Christmas lights were amazing.
