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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 a join me in prague for a day. ah, you'll get to know famous author franz kafka. i learn more about the heaney and dumpling,

a prompt 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 cafe. 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 mean, i would like to be able to be polite. okay. i met hello, hello. yes. so you know, hello, this was funny because it hello if you say hello, it's like a whole, like little bit more formula. so when you come to the shop and it's like a hoity, it's not the best thing you can do. somebody do, benita, and like guten, soc, is saying gluten dog is w, nobody den that nobody, nobody them,

almost perfect. somebody them the leader, nothing. then you need it. then you should probably know how to say goodbye. yeah. no, scott, no, never think i will have to stay here forever. this is a good idea. i would 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? i think it, which brings us to do because if you want to say like i, the bird weight, it's really official, really polite. you can say yes when it was really hard to say you can, which is like thank you can say if you don't think it is good, i can let that rolls off of that. but before you say, you should say like police or something like that. yeah, so it's okay, i have a good news for you because we use processing because we are really influenced by germans cause so many centuries. so we use it in the same case as you do. so when you don't understand like mean this,

when you say like you welcome for us you and as well for see could you? well, so it's really useful. oh yeah. and it's easy to remember compared to all the other ones. i mean, it all seem perfect. ah christiane tells me that prague is full of history. the gallop 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 euro at 41 meters still have to city at your feet. why is

prog and called the golden city? i think 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 aspires. well, 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, our tourists gather in front of the astronomical clock on the town hall facade, to witness a little play. but the true highlight is the clock is it was built in 1410 at 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 to out of numbers, but the roman golden numbers in a blue satisfies at that all re and exact 3 it work of that. the 2nd, 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 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 and 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 close to center. yeah. it's in winter, so it gets al,

you're not. 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 you have the guy with emerge, which represents the 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 where the only thing they were allowed to do by with questions where banking don't have to offer you anything out of the out of the ghetto except with doctors done. we needed them, so we allowed them nicely do 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, is that whatever you do, the message is then member that india is the death. so just like try to fill the

life as a full so life has as much as we can to them. it's really beautiful. this square is a must to where every prog visitor, as you can see, we're not alone. so where are you from different scotland from mexico? some come from austin, texas. from time proof. what brings you to prague? why prague? betty fuson and her foot. i think wandering about actually 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 in boys heard progress such a beautiful city. and it is with telecom on which i looked at, 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'm was the guy legacy. we're adding to this thing for the buildings right. and toasty 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 or to lecture classes with 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 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 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 the spongy fluffy unsolved?

these are a must have side dish in the czech republic. the yeast dumplings are a classic of check cuisine. check chefs like thomas catalina and luke hash weggit is would have needed several 1000 dumped ins in just the 1st year of apprenticeship. ready the basic recipe is simple with. so the chick dog banks who really need the chicklow, what else we want milk to ex freshies. so she'll go and the so bread. the bread comes later lou cache 1st mix is 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 youth up 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 dumplings

are 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, i didn't know you squeeze. the dancing flip with warm served with goulash duck o 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 spectacle taste really, really good. but it is also really filling as well. any site 4 dumplings with sauce

. i'm full and he's so prox time on his coffee house is also service suite version checked dumplings with a fruity sweet filling. mm. these dumplings are the one of the pillars of her, the 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 period would be all over the place and it was a main dish of nutrients. it was sweet to get that energy from the flower and from the cur. there was the cheapest thing to eat, the cheque government even awards a certificate to restaurants of national cuisine. they serving high quality traditional dishes like cheque dum, kings can receive the cheque 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 van long my thought was, you know, the author of the sculpture called it metro marshall's as, as changing metals. this one in progress called k, apparently like kafka and blake, joseph k, which is one of the characters from his. no. hm. mm hm . since 2005, there's been a museum in the city dedicated entirely to kafka. the manhood one day become one of progs to well known authors belong to the cities german speaking minority. ready

noon, 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 i really good example of this corporation or call having 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 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, a writer actually it's interesting because all his life is somehow mainly connected with prague. you know,

so he really loved to me so like he would never leave it unless they would burn it from both ends. you know? so he really loft product 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 char 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 was slightly getting to the high numbers. but as i said before, we giving out in 2009,

yet 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'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, or charles ridge like no people really like a room like a rule 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? tell 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, the main center. so we have like districts which were really industry are like hollis of it's got a lean article, then we have really push areas like vantage over and over that. so there's so many

things to explore just enough. why does the center so what i think is the solution is just to, to little bit direct the people out of the city center and to explore with them. these are beautiful areas. thank you so much. so much sharing your settings. we is in loveland. you're meeting with we've got some hot tips for your bucket list with magic corner tread hotspot for, for me, check, and some great cultural memorials to boot. did 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. ah, i'm 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 the most important because it santia in south general him. yeah. and it ends in humbler. yeah. so which mean it was a, it was a trade, it was and walked away on philly to bring to products. the brand isn't very interesting because the from on the other side and the market because the top hill, it's not of simple to build that a month. it because you want to know who the area to which mean demonica to flood was suck showing here. so they need to build a market here,

and you have to have the connection in, went to 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 wasn't kind of like craig and it's blue rage by this fancy was wet 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 packed all day? so let's to play. that's these documents. and you don't need to go to church because every single statue is a veteran. and the saying, 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, when confessing those are stock you because they said he is the right one and the priest are not the right one because they are not behaving according to the bible.

so they were coming to confess, this is thought you of charles nipple rather than going to the church. sonya wants to show me a different part of frock beyond the old town, a neighbourhood where the actual locals live, and tourists are still a bit of a rarity. we're off to o lesh of 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. hating 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. one good coffee. you don't have to tell me twice with 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 does that you appreciate about how leisure mid july i did for you durham, m d a. relax. no rush. i ever seen what i need 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 like to dine, so we're in the center center because the prizes are here for us better. and we have 2 daughters of baba baker and we've been there. it's on a doris round. that is a tea room here. you can choose what you like, you have everything your name. exactly. so if you would like to me, 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 too. you can find corners 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 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 coons 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 had to program to family, the family 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 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 them check they

are so special and we'll talk, 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 specially 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 noise make the best blanca. all right, and i heard that in the czech republic, there's 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 a lot. the checks. it's the germans that come here and drink all your beer 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 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 maternity with so much to offer, especially off the beaten path with

ah, that's my day and 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 cheque capital time now for me to say good bye or better yet not let her know. ah, with ah, ah, with

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