that's d w dot com. ah ah, ah, ah, charles bridge products most famous landmark. only the early birds among you will ever get to see it 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. now join me and prague for a day. ah, you'll get to know famous author franz kafka. i learn more about bohemian dumplings, a prod, classic, and will explore the ball tub. the city's main artery with frog is the capital of the czech republic and home to some 1300000 people. since it's my 1st time in town, i'm getting help from

a local at coffee flavio i'm meeting actor and tour guide christiane, my strick. before we hit the town, i want to learn some basic check skills. i would like to be able to be polite. okay . hello. hello. yes. so you know, hello this which one is it? hello, if you say hello, it's like a boy. why it's a little bit more prominent. so when you come to the shop and you feel like a hoity is not the best thing you can do, so we don't need to, and like guten, soc, is saying, right? yeah, so good them, doc is company. nobody den that nobody to somebody that almost perfect somebody that the leader. nothing. then you okay. nobody to then you should probably know how to say goodbye. yeah. not scott. no, never think i will have to stay here forever. this is a good idea. we love people like all right, not fun. i know. yeah. is there not a more informal way of saying that like a whole i was just bringing it,

which brings us to do. because if you want to say like a bird weight, it's really official, really polite. you can say, yeah, well, but it's really hard to say get, which is like, thank you. okay, but we 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 little she okay, i have a good news for you because we use, but i've seen because we are really influenced by germans call so many centuries. so we use it in the same case as you do. so when you don't understand like me bizarre. so when you say like you welcome for us you and as well for seen, could you? well, so it's really useful. oh yeah. and it's easy to remember compared to all the other ones saying, all seem perfect. ah christiane tells me that prague is full of history. the gal at 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 unit, so world heritage, our 1st stop is the old town square and friend up the old town hall. a ticket for the tower costs $250.00 check crown. yep, prague is part of the you. but not the euro zone that's about 10 years. at 41 meters, you'll have to city at your feet. why is prague and called the golden 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 vas. we don't use it any more. surely we locals don't use it as much. we use. no, no, no, we use the expression mother of 100 suppliers. well,

because if you look up from the window from the bars, because he das pires everywhere, actually i would say there's even more definitely done hundreds of them. at the top of every hour tour. it's gather in front of the astronomical clock on the town hall facade to witness a little play. but the true highlight is the clock itself. it was built in 1410, a gothic masterpiece. but even find today's standard, a bit hard to read. when the sun, ace, there's a golden hands you see. yeah. and the golden hand is pointing to out of numbers. but the roman golden numbers in a blue. yeah. this size. it's all re and exact 3. it could, 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 solstice, it's s better from the sun to as possible and on the winter solstice 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 the us closer center. yeah, it's in winter, so it gets al your now and then in summer it's later. maybe about a stick. you 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 of the guy with a merge, which represents vanity. yeah. then you have the guy, which is a greeter. i don't know if you want to talk about that, but are in medieval time, jewish people that were the only thing they were allowed to do by with christians

where banking don't have to offer you anything out of the. 1 out of the ghetto, except with doctors done, we needed them so we allowed them nicely to and again. 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 the skeleton discussion rings about sigh and is that it's quite remarkable that get would be depicted in such a way in that time, isn't it? whatever you do, the message is. remember that india is the death. so just like try to fill the life has a fulfill life is as much as we can really beautiful this where is a must where every prog visitor, as you can see, we're not alone. mm. where are you from where from scotland for mexico. how come from austin, texas, from texas? what brings you to prague? why prague? at betty forcing and her foot,

i think wondering about as she could just get the atmosphere is the kind of thing that we like to do. and just sort of so all in it's examine itself. oh, it's wonderful. and for as heard, progress such a beautiful city and it is with them on which i looked at it. it's true what you hear about prague, sites and culture. there was a piano player in the metro station and music on the bridge and i was like, i never legacy we're adding to this thing for the buildings who are toasting for with the structure of the town and the food and the food of food. good point. time for a little snack. christiane takes me to try a cheque classic with a modern twist. these are like slightly still traditional check check classical feel so you running is like, oh give me 3, give me the one with the potato. sorry. give me one with the ham. you did any road work? oh, by the way, every single party we have new year's eve birthday parties. we have these open face and with okay,

with 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. how to the spongy fluffy, unsolved days i must have side dish in the czech republic. these dumplings are classic of check cuisine. check chefs, like thomas catalina and luke hash weggit is would have needed several 1000 duncans in just the 1st year of apprenticeship. ready the basic recipe is simple a. so the chick dog things who really need the chicklow. what else we want

milk to ex freshies. so she'll go and the cell bread. the bread comes later. lucas 1st mixes the other ingredients and needs the dough to the right consistency. then he adds the stale bread cubes, back in the day spirits. how do recipe? probably started the you duck the old bread. and the dough has to rise for about 40 minutes before its formed into rolls and left to rise again. then the dumb tins of ready to boil and the finish dumped in a to tender to cut with a knife in the traditional way. lu, cash used as a thread to slice the rolls because if you cut it, didn't i use please. the dumpling flip with

warm saved with go lash doubt. oh, roast meets the dumplings, arranged in finger thick slices. they compliment hearty dishes because that light i'm fluffy, but they pack a punch. 100 grams of damn kings have 184 calories almost 3 times as many as boiled potatoes. schmidt, delicious, 6. it tastes really, really good, but it is also really filling as organic food. if i eat for dumplings with sauce, i'm foaming soap. prox time on it. coffee house is also service suite version checked dumplings with a fruity sweet filling. mm. these dumplings are with one of the pillars of her food. they were selling 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 summer

time, the food would be all over the place and it was a main dish of nutrients. it was sweet again, then as you from the flower and from the 1st, it was the cheapest thing to eat. the check government even awards a certificate to restaurants of national cuisine. they serving high quality traditional dishes like cheque dumplings can receive the check specials award. mm 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 sculpture. 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 written by friends kafka is for yvonne long my time. what was it? so the author of the sculptor called it metro marshall's as, as changing metals. this one in progress called k, apparently like kafka and like joseph k, which is one of the characters from his noble and since 2005 there's been a museum in the city dedicated entirely to kafka. the manhood one day become one of progs, most well known authors belong to the cities german speaking minority 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 you think people in prague? i'm st. progress so beautiful because they were checks,

germans and juice living together and from scott christ. actually a really good example of this corporation or call living because he was a check george german. and by the way, he was an alter by the way it was, i believe 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 personally to 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 writer. actually it's interesting because all his life is somehow mainly connected with prague. you know, so he really loved them. he said he would never leave it unless they would burn it from both ends and also he really. busy loft, proc tough guesswork 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 night maritally illogical. and by the afternoon the charles bridge is indeed pretty crowded. despite the

unfavorable weather, but apparently still no comparison to the time before the pandemic back then proc was overflowing with tour with brag, 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, we slightly getting to the high numbers, but as i said before, we giving out in 2019 we had like 8000000 people coming to brock. and now we are, they say we are getting to like 5040 percent of that as a to work on you. of course one people coming to your city. right? so what's problematic about too many people coming or that amount? if it is through the atmosphere, you know, you see all these posters like the proc castillo, charles ridge like no people really like a roof like a roof. this romantic atmosphere, the over there isn't 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 destroys the stuff as well. how can that be managed because that's a. 2 beautiful city and you've done like 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 in the city, but we have a swell, so many beautiful districts all around the main city. i mean the, the main center, so we have like districts which we're really industry. i like whole issue of it's, i got a lead article then we have really push areas like vantage over and over that. so there's so many things to explore just in a widest at the center. so what i think is the solution is just to, to little bit to direct the people out of the citizens and to explore with them. these are beautiful areas. thank you so much. some are sharing your settings, we is in loveland or so. with

that, we've got some hot tips for your bucket list with magic corner tread hotspot for food, please check and some great cultural memorials to booth t w travel off we go. oh, if you happen to visit prague on a rainy day, i have another recommendation for you. take a little spin on the valve cover. mm hm. and joined by sonya, she's a proc native and has worked as a guide in her home town for the past 15 years. mm. mm. how important is the river for other people of wow, the most important because it santia in south general. hm. yeah. and it ends in

humbler. yeah. so which mean it was a repo, it was a trade, it was and walked away to late to bring the products a very interesting because the other side and the market because the top hill, it's not civil to build that a month. it, because you want to know who the area. yes, which mean demonica to flood will suck, showing here what they need to build a market here. and you have to have the connection in between the casa and the market. so the charles bridge was already an important, next is back then. the bridge was built with no statues on there was a kind of like craig and spoof break by this fact. he was way edit in the 17th century. and it's catholic propaganda. we were not catholics, we were reformers. yeah. so which mean we lost the wall?

what to do with does you have to be fantastic. so let's to play. that's the stack use and you don't need to go to church because every single statue is a patron and the same. and you can pray do it. right. if people come to pray, oh yes, we have the john nick from oak on the bridge. and he was the confessor, so the people was confessing. those are stock you because they said he is a right one. and the priests are not the right one because they are not behaving according to the bible. so they're coming to confess. this is thought you of charge of nipple rather than going to the church. mm. sunny, i want 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, oh,

less of it's the hip part of town. fancy will help many and buildings in a district that grew during the industrialization. this is where sonya lives. she takes me to her favorite cafe. so grandma and he needs done with my whole feel like it kidding me. it's one of my favorite grocery is so unexpected . i know that'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 always on the co phase. very good or making ever seen home made and really, really good work. good coffee. you don't have to tell me twice.

i sonya explains that only 20 years ago or less of it, there was a gray and dull part of town that is seen a lot of change in the past year. and they chose to live here. what is that you appreciate about how leisure mid july i did free durham, m. 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 terrific center. therefore, we do not live to dine. so we're in the center center because the prizes are here for us. better and me a few there is a baba baker river. there is unaddressed around. there is a tea room here. you can choose what you i have everything your name. exactly. so

if you would like to meet check people come here and enjoy living with us because why? oh, very hard to opening people and we like to speak with the foreigners. finally, sonya takes me back to the old town here too. you can find coroners that are not overrun before we finally try some of the famous jack beer. she wants to show me something. the bar she has taken me to was built on the remnants of one of the oldest houses in prague. looks like it must have been a pretty lavish house or the i'm right. this is the name of the house is at cooney. dondo crunched on there was a really very famous, 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, so interest, flip head to prevent the family,

the family 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 to day the pub crunch dot to where you can choose between 100 different kinds of beer. or where better to learn about the countries favorite drink. any luck with. so what makes you check their special hopes and what we have a very special helps on day been here and there are have, get the bitterness and this is very special be, i mean, hot water is also very special. i mean, if you have the humps all the procedure and you do it somewhere else, the water is different and will not be facing the same way. what is it about the

water is if very soft, a combination of minerals, okay? so the combination of minerals make the best longer. right. and i heard in the check up on a per capita consumption of beer, anywhere in the world. we beat view with rich and else trillion to. yeah. but i think it's thanks to you guys to go to our coming here to bring back the radio a lot. the checks. it's the germans that come here and drink all your bitter tears to that young man who 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 in 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. ah ah that's my day in progress already over there is of course a lot more to see and discover. but i still hope you enjoy to get a little taste of the check capital time. now for me to say good bye or better yet not let her know. ah ah

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