tv Check-in Deutsche Welle October 1, 2022 9:30am-10:01am CEST
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charles bridge prox most famous landmark, only the early birds among you will ever get to see at this empty. it's 7 am and i've managed to beat the crowds the bridge, the vault of a river. the spires now seems to be the perfect time to take it all in. the vibe is very special progress. one of the most visited cities in all of europe. and that's not really surprising if you consider that it's been a political and cultural center in europe since the middle ages. so what's left of all of that today, we're about to find out a join me and prague for a day. ah, you'll get to know famous author friends kafka
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ah, learn more about those heaney and dumplings abroad classic and will explore the bulk of the city's main artery. ah, frog is the capital of the czech republic and home to some 1300000 people sent it's my 1st time in town. i'm getting help from a local. at cafe flavio i'm meeting actor and tour guide christian my strick. before we hit the town, i want to learn some basic check skills. i mean, i would like to be able to be polite. okay. admit to wow and hello. yes. so you know, hello this with one of these. hello. if you say hello, it's like a whole, like little bit more formula. so when you come to the shopping, it's like a boy, it's not the best thing. you can do something to be done like hooton's. ok. you're saying gluten?
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dog is w, nobody den, nobody to the really them almost perfect. somebody the leader. then you need it. then you should probably know how to say goodbye. yeah. no, scott, no, i'll never think i will have to stay here forever. this is a good idea. we love people like it. all right? not fun. i know. is there not a more informal way of saying that like why you're thinking about it? which brings us to think. because if you want to say like i the bird and it's really official, really polite, you can say, yeah, when it was really hard to say, which is like thanks. i don't think it is good. i can let that rolls off of that. yeah. but before you say, you should say like police or something like that. yeah. so it's okay and other good news for you because we use processing because we are really influenced by germans for so many centuries. use it in the same case as you do. so when you don't
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understand like need possess, all of this, when you say like you welcome and as well. um so you could you well, so it's really useful. oh yeah. and it's easy to remember compared to all the other ones. i mean, i'll seem perfect. ah christiane tells me that prague is full of history. gallus market, for example, has been around since the 13th century. it's remarkable how well maintained the old town. in 1992, proc city center was declared a unesco world heritage. our 1st stop is the old town square and friend up the old town hall. a ticket for the tower. it costs $250.00 check crowns. yup. prague as part of the you, but not the euro zone, that's about 10 years. at 41 meters,
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you'll have the city at your feet. why is prague and called the gold in the city? i think it's in the time that they started to use it, prague was one of the capitals of seats, place of the holy roman empire. for the emperor vos, we don't use it anymore. actually, we locals don't use it as much. we use it. no, no, we use the expression mother of 100 us pyres now because if you look up from the window from the bars, because he the us pires everywhere. actually i would say there's even more definitely done hundreds of them. at the top of every hour tourists gather in front of the astronomical clock on the town hall facade to witness a little play. oh,
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but the true highlight is the clock itself. it was built in 1410, a gothic masterpiece. but even fine, today's standard. a bit hard to read. when the sun is, there's a golden hands you see. yeah. and the golden hand is pointing out of numbers. but the roman golden numbers in a blue. yeah. the size at that all re and exact 3 and so that was like, let's say this just, well this was like 12121230 is not really precise. oh yeah. so only one. but the sun, if you look, this is the hands and here's the sun. sun moves on the axis. yeah. so in summer on a summer sauce this it's s better from the sun to as possible and on a winter. so if this as close to the center as possible, and it's interesting because you see the blue path, the red pod and black park. yeah. so when the sun is in a blue one, it's still today, then it gets to the sunset, then there's a night. and then there's the sunrise on the day. and you can see when it's in rows
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closer center. yeah, it's in winter so it gets al, you're not. and then in summer it's later maybe about a stick used really quickly on the bottom you have the history and you have the archangel michael, you have the astrological and you have the philosopher. yeah. over there on the top you have the guy with emerge, which represents vanity. yeah. and then you have the guy, which is a greeter. well, i don't know if you want to talk about that. but in medieval time, jewish people where the only thing they were allowed to do by was christian where banking don't offer you anything out of the out of the ghetto except why go to doctors done? we needed them. so we allowed them nicely to get him. but what i'm trying to say is this guy is representing greeter and he's done like a jewish jewish. also, it's a lot of really politically correct. and then there's a skeleton discussion rings about standby. and is that it's quite remarkable that would be depicted in such a way that time, isn't it? whatever you do the message,
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remember that india is the death. so just like try to fill the life fulfill life is as much as we can really beautiful. this square is a must for every prog visitor. as you can see, we're not alone. so where are you from? where from scotland for mexico? i'm coming from austin, texas. from tank truth, what brings you to prague? why prague? asked betty forcing and her foot. i think wondering about as she to just get the atmosphere is the kind of thing that we like to do. and just sort of soak it all in . it's a museum in itself. oh, it's wonderful and for as heard, progress such a beautiful city and it is with telecom on which i looked at. it's true. what you hear about prague starts in culture. there was a piano player in the metro station and music on the bridge and i was like a level legacy. we're adding to this thing for the buildings, right? it's hosting for, with the structure of the town and the food and the food of food. good
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point. time for a little snack. christiane takes me to try a cheque classic with a modern twist. these are like slightly still traditional it so gotcha crossed. who else are you running? is like, oh, give me 3, give me the one with the potato. sorry. give me one with the ham you did and you go to work. oh, by the way, every single party we have new year's eve birthday parties. we have these open place and with the i just saw a term to proc and also be a culinary experience. and if you have the time and are still hungry, i have another recommendation for you. traditional check dumplings, i promise you won't regret it.
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how spongy, fluffy and soft days are, i must have side dish in the czech republic that gives dumplings or a classic of check cuisine. check chefs like thomas catalina and lucas weggit ist would have needed several 1000 dumplings in just their 1st year of apprenticeship. the basic recipe is simple with. so the chick dog bang soon. really need the chick floor. what else? we won't milk to ex freshies. so she'll go and the silver the bread comes later. lou cash 1st mix as the other ingredients and needs the dough to the right consistency. then he adds the stale bread cubes. back in the days good's home to recipe. probably father. do you duck the old bread? and the dough has to rise for about 40 minutes before it's formed into rolls and
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left to rise again. then the dumplings are ready to boil and the finish dumped in a to tender to cut with a knife in the traditional way glue can use as a thread to slice the rolls. because if you cut it didn't know you speed the damping flood with warm served with goulash duck o roast, meets that dumplings arranged in finger thick slices. they compliment hearty dishes because that light i'm fluffy, but they pack a punch. 100 grams of dumplings have 184 calories almost 3 times as many as boiled potatoes. schmidt, delicious spectacle tastes really,
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really good. that is also really filling as hold on a few, a fight for dumplings with sauce. i'm foaming soap. prox time on its coffee house is also service suite version checked dumplings with a free tea sweet filling. mm. these dumplings are the one of the pillars of her food that we sell in the restaurant because it's a very traditional thing. we maintain them because historically there was a big version of the thing dumplings in, in this region, because during the summertime the food would be all over the place and it was the main dish of nutrients. it was sweet to get that energy from the flower and from the occur. it was the cheapest thing to eat, the cheque government even. it was a certificate to restaurants of national cuisine. they serving high quality traditional dishes like checked dumb kings and received the cheque specials, awards. mm
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hm. you may have heard of the writer franz kafka, perhaps even more famous than the charles birds. he's one of products, most important claims to fade. you'll run into him all around his home town, post cards and souvenir shops, or as a modern culture. i don't, if you can see the layers actually are moving or not and how of unfortunately, but in special like every whole hour, it's just moving into a different program. so it goes like a spiral. it goes exact different programs and because the most famous piece made by who have written by french kafka is for van long, my thought was it, you know, the author of the sculpture called it metamorphosis as changing metals. this one in progress called k, apparently like kafka and blake, joseph k, which is one of the characters from his noble i'm and since 2005, there's been a museum in the city dedicated and tiredly to costco. the man who would one day
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become one of progs most well known authors belong to the cities, germans speaking minority. ready with but fame only came after his untimely death. at 40 years of age. during his lifetime, he worked at an insurance company who was franz kafka, franz kafka when i'm meeting people in prague, i'm saying progress so beautiful because they were checks, germans and juice living together. and from scott, guys, actually a really good example of this corporation of color thing because he was a check german. and by the way, he was an alter by the way it was, i don't know that world wide famous all through one of the definitely one of the most famous ones we have. definitely, i think transcript was really interesting personal it. that's what i do agree. what do we know about him as a person? because this is dedicated to his time before he even was a, a writer actually it's interesting because all his life is somehow mainly connected
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with proc no. so he really loved to me so like he would never leave it unless they would burn it from both ends. and also he really loved product. tough guess work explores existential anxiety and the absurdity of the mundane and english that even inspired a new adjective. the word cask i ask is used to describe something bizarrely complex or nightmarish. lee illogical boy by the afternoon, the charles bridge is indeed pretty crowded, despite the unfavorable weather, but apparently still no comparison to the time before the pantomime back then prague was overflowing with tour with bragg was having a bit of a problem before the pandemic with over towards definitely definitely. so how big of a problem is it then right now, be slightly getting to the hi numbers. but as i said before, we getting in 2019,
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we had like 8000000 people coming to brock. and now we are, they say we are getting to like 54 to person of that as a to work on you. of course, want people coming to your city, right? so what is problematic about too many people coming or that amount? if it is through the atmosphere, they all, you see all these posters like the proc castillo, or charles ridge like no people really like a roof like a really romantic atmosphere. the over tourism really kills the atmosphere and actually even destroys that thing with this image. and there's like a 1000000 tons of people coming, so it's really destroy the stuff as well. so how can it be managed still because this is a beautiful city and you've done a great work showing it to me. thank you. but how can you keep people out? honestly, i think there's like, because we have the inner city, but we have a swell, so many beautiful district all around the main city. i mean the domain center. so we have like districts which were really industry are like hollis of it's got
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a lean article, then we have really push areas like vantage over and over that. so there's so many things to explore just in a wider city center. so what i think is the solution is just to, to little bit direct the people out of the citizens and to explore with them. these are beautiful areas. thank you so much. so much sharing your thinking. we who is in loveland you're meeting with we've got some hot tips for your bucket list with magic corner check hot spot for food, please check and some great cultural memorials to boot w travel off we go. or if you happen to visit prague on rainy day,
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i have another recommendation for you. take a little spin on the well tub. mm hm. i'm joined by sonya, she's a prog native and has worked as a guide in her hometown for the past 15 years. mm. mm how important is the river for other people of the most important because it's santia in south carolina and it ends in humbler. yeah. so which mean it was a, it was a trade, it was a want to way on. feel like to bring to products, the brand isn't very interesting because it probably is on the other side, but in the market because it's not civil to build that a month. it, because you want to not have the area to which mean demand that the flood was suck
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showing here. so they need to build a market here, and you have to have the connection in front of the casa and the market. so the charles bridge was already an important next is back that the bridge was built with no statues on there was a kind of way, like reagan's blue rage by this fancy was wet edit in the 17th century and its catholic propaganda. we were not catholics, we were reformers. yeah. so which mean we lost the wall? what to do with us? you have to be got all the so let's to play. yeah. that's these documents, and you don't need to go to church because every single statue is a veteran and the same. and you can break to it. right. if people come to pray, oh yes, we have the john of neck from oak saw the bridge and he was the confessor. so the people was confessing. those are stopped you because they said he is a right one and the priest are not the right one because they are not behaving
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according to the bible. so they were coming to confess. this is thought you of john of nipple rather than going to the church. sonya wants to show me a different part of proc beyond the old town neighbourhood where the actual locals live and tourists are still a bit of a rarity. we're off to alicia. it's the hip part of town. fancy wilhelmina and buildings in a district that grew during the industrialization. this is where sonia lives. she takes me to a favorite cafe. so grandma and he nice done with my whole feel like it. kidding me. it's one of my favorite grocery is so unexpected
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. i know that it's like some think like a small paradise or a little paradise. exactly. so there are a lot of different plans and you can be sitting here all ways and dirt co face very good or making ever seen home made and really, really good. one good coffee. you don't have to tell me twice with sonya explains that only 20 years ago. the lesser bit there was a gray and dull part of town that has seen a lot of change in the past year with you chose to live here. what does that you appreciate about how leisure mid july
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the freedom d. a relax. no rush, a bursting board i need to for my living is here. i don't need to. as i mentioned before, i do need to go to the city center and the price is lower than the touristic center. therefore, we do not blind to dine somewhere in the city center because the prizes are here for us better. and we have 2 daughters of baba baker and we've been that is on a doris around that is a tea room here. you can choose what you like. you have everything you need. exactly. so if you would like to meet check people come here and enjoy living with us because we apply a very hard to opening people and we like to speak with the foreigners finally, sonya takes me back to the old town here to you can find coroners that are not overrun before we finally try some of the famous check beer. she wants to show me something. the bar she has taken me to was built on the remnants of one of the
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oldest houses in prague. looks like it must have been a pretty lavish house or the time. right. this is the name of the house is at cooney. dondo crunched on there was a really very fame most rich family. and one of our a king came from the family. oh, which means we are speaking about the money here, the real in money? by best, the family didn't live here. that was for the soldiers. okay, so the so interest flip had to perfect from melinda, pamela live on. that's the 1st floor. so which means here they have to really so help and protect the family. in the case of an attack on the 1st floor today, the pub will crunch dot to where you can choose between 100 different kinds of beer . or where better to learn about the countries favorite drink i.
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oh, so what makes you check there? so special hopes and what we have a very special help on day been here and there are a bitterness. and this is very special be, i mean the hot water is also very specialized. so if mean, if you have the hawks all the procedure and you do it somewhere else, the water is to friendly and will not be facing the same way. what is it about the water? is it very soft? a combination of minerals. okay. so the combination of minerals make the best blanca. all right, and i heard that in the czech republic, there is more per capita consumption of beer than anywhere in the world. we beat view with britain and australia into yeah, but i think it's things to guys to go to our coming here to bring back the radius
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a lot. the checks. it's the germans that come here and drink all your tiers to that . yeah, i mean, we can blame them. ah, night has fallen and time has come to bid prog farewell back. where it all started on charles bridge. mm. mm. and even this time, i'm not entirely by myself. the mass tourism that late the city before the pandemic has not returned the way many fear. mm. and hate, who can blame people for being attracted to this beauty? it's a perfect blend of history and modernity with so much to offer, especially off the beaten path. mm.
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