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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 vall tava 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.

ah, learn more about the median dumplings, a broad 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'm a bit slow and hello. yes, so you know, hello, this is one of these. hello, if you say hello, it's like a hoity. but it's a little bit more familiar. so when you come to the shop and it's like a hoity is not the best thing you can do. i do, benita. and like guten, soc, is saying, right? yeah, wooten dog is w, nobody den that nobody, nobody them,

almost perfect. somebody that the meta dumping, then you don't need it. then you should probably know how to say goodbye. now, scott. no, never think i will have to stay here forever. this is a good idea. good luck. people like it. all right, not one. i know they're not a more informal way of saying that like who i was just saying, which brings us to do it. 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 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 i've been good news for you because we use processing because we are really influenced by germans for so many centuries. so we use it in the same case. and so

when you don't understand like the business of this, when you say like to welcome for us, you and as well for so you could, you know, 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 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 costs $250.00 check crown. yep, prague as part of the you, but not the euro zone. that's about 10 years. at 41 meters still have to

city at your feet. why is prague then 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 us pires. 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 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 itself. it was built in 1410, a gothic masterpiece. but even find today's standard a bit hard to read. when the sun is a golden hands, you see it. yeah. and the golden hand is pointing out of the numbers. but the roman golden numbers in a blue sky size at that all re an exact 3. it work of that, the 2nd, let's say this just, well this was like 12121230. so it's 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. 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 time today. and you can see when it's in the us 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. you really quickly on the bottom you have the history and you have the archangel michael, you have the astro just and you have the philosopher. yeah. over there on the top, you have the guy with a merge, which represents the vanity. yeah. then you have the guy which is a greeter. you know, i don't know if you want to talk about that, but in medieval time, jewish people were the only thing they were allowed to do by it was christians. where banking? no, no, we're not allowed to get anything out of the out of the ghetto, except they with doctors done, we needed them. so we allowed them nicely. do we have to get it? but what i'm trying to say is this guy is representing greeter and he's done like a jewish jewish. also, it's not really politically correct. and then there's the skeleton discussed and rings the bell, sy time will go up and is that it's quite remarkable that again would be depicted in such a way in that time. isn't that what you do? the message is, remember that in is

a so just like try to fill the live as a full, full life. as much as we can do that. it's really beautiful. this square is a must to where every prog visitor, as you can see or not along. where are you from? griffin, scotland for mexico. some come from austin, texas from tank roof. what brings you to prague? why prague asked betty fuson and her foot. i didn't wondering about that she could 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 was the guy legacy wanting to this thing for the buildings. right. and toasty for 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 fairly short, so gotcha. 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 eat it and you go to 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 spongy,

fluffy and soft, these are a must have side dish. in the czech republic, they used dumplings or a classic of cheque cuisine, checked chefs like thomas catalina and lu. cash weggit is would have needed several 1000 dumplings in just their 1st year of apprenticeship. ready the basic recipe is simple with. so the chick dog banks who really need the chick flower. what else we want milk to ex freshies. so sugar and the so bread. the bread crumbs later. lu, cash 1st mixes the other ingredients and needs the dough to the right consistency. then he adds the stale bread cubes, back in the day, 6, how do recipe problem? his father, 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 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 can, i didn't. i used to be the daunting flood warm served with goulash duck o roast, meets the dumplings, arranged in finger thick slices. they compliment hardy 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, mac, delicious spectacle tastes really, really good. it is also really filling as well and a few

a fight for dumplings with sauce. i'm full and he's so prox time on his coffee houses also service suite version checked them things with a fruity 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 summer time, the food would be all over the place and it was a main dish full of nutrients. it was, we could 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 check dumplings can receive the checks specials, awards. mm hm

. you may have heard of the writer franz kafka, perhaps even more famous than the charles bridge. he's one of products most important claims to fail. 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 your notes 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 franz kafka is for van long let on what was it? so the author of the sculpture called it natural morsels 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 noble mm . since 2005, there's been a museum in the city dedicated entirely to kafka. the man who would one day become

one of progs most well known authors belong to the cities, germans speaking minority. ready with but faith only came after his untimely death. at 40 years of age. during his lifetime he worked at an insurance company who was franz kafka from se 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 really good example of this corporation or call living because he was a check german. and by the way, he was an altar. by the way, it was, i know that world wide famous all through one of the definitely one of the most famous ones we have definitely, i think 1st was really interesting personally to that's what i do. i 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 proc, you know, so he really loved them. he said he would never leave it unless they would burn it from both ends. also, he really loft products, cough guesswork, explores existential anxiety and the absurdity of the mundane and english that even inspired a new adjective. the word tough guy ask is used to describe something bizarrely complex or night maritally 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 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're slightly getting to the high numbers. but as i said before,

we giving in 2019 we had like 8000000 people coming to brock. and now we have, they say we are getting to like 5040 person of that as a tour guide. 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 gospel, charles ridge like no people really like a roof like a rule this romantic atmosphere. the overthrow isn't really kills the atmosphere and actually even destroys that thing because image and there's like a 1000000 tons of people coming. so it's really destroys the stuff as well. so how can that be managed? so because this is a 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 a city by, with a swell, so many beautiful districts all around the main city. i mean the, the main center. so we have like districts which were really industry are like hollis, it's i got

a lean article than we have really push areas like vantage over and over that. so there's so many things to explore just in the widest at the 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 are yes, thank you so much. i'm, we are sharing your think what we do is in loveland you're meeting with we've got some hot tips for your bucket list. magic corner check hot spot for food, check and some great cultural, laborious to boot w travel off we go. or if you happen to visit prague on a rainy day,

i have another recommendation for you. take a little spin on the ball tub. mm hm. i'm joined by sonya, she's a prog native and has worked as a guide in her home town for the past 15 years. mm. mm. how important is the river for people of the most important because it sounds here in sal durable. hm. yeah. and it ends in humbler. yeah. so which mean it was a repo, it was a trade, it was a lot to way unfairly to bring to products. the brand isn't very interesting because the from the other side of the market because that's how it's not of simple to build that a market because you want to not have the area to which mean demonica to fled. well,

suck showing here. so 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 that the bridge was built with north statues on there was a kind of like craig and spook 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 catholic? so let's to play. yeah, that's these back use and you don't need to go to church because every single statue is up patron 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 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 were coming to confess. this is thought you of chung, off melbourne rather than going visited 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 her favorite cafe. so could i not? and he needs done with no hope you're liking, hating me. it's one of my favorite grocery is so unexpected. i know that's like

some think like a small paradise, a little paradise. exactly. so there are a lot of different plans and you can be sitting here all ways and do a co phase. very good or making everything home made and really, really good. one 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 years. and they chose to live here. what does that you appreciate about how letterman de life i do for you durham the relax?

no rush, i received. 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 tourist center. therefore we do not live to dine. so we're in the center center because the prices are here for us. better a bubba bakery and that is on a direct around. there is a tea room here. you can choose what you, i have everything your name. exactly. so if you would like to me check people come here and enjoy living, read to 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 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. they will for the soldiers. ok. so the so interests live had to perfect the 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? i mean, not good, i mean, oh,

what makes you checked there? so special ups and we'll talk, we have a very special help on day been here and they are a bitterness. and this is very special. be, i mean the hot water is also very special and i mean if you have the hawks 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 very soft. a combination of minerals. okay. so the combination of noise make the best longer. and 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, we beat return it was trailed into. yeah. but i think it's, thanks to you guys because you all coming here to bring back the radius of the baton the checks. it's the germans that come in during all your beer tiers to that,

you know, i mean, who can blame them? ah, night has fallen and time has come to bid product 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 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 check capital time. now for me to say goodbye or better yet, not split up with with

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