Here we go again. Prague and a little bit of Czech Republic. Day 1

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.