[000:00:00;00] ah ah ah ah, charles bridge products 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 in join me in prague for a day. ah, you'll get to know famous author franz kafka. i learn more about the lenient 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 after and tour guide christian mike 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 to wow. and hello. yes. so you know, hello. this was one of these. hello. if you say hello, it's like a hoity why it's a little bit more familiar. so when you come to the shopping, it's like a hoity, it's not the best thing. you can do something to be done like hooton's hockey saying wooten dog is w, nobody den that nobody to somebody them almost perfect. somebody will be there dumping, then you need it. then you should from a know how to say goodbye. yes. now, scott, no, i'll never think i will have to stay here forever. that's 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

a whole i was just thinking 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 it, which is like thanks. i don't think it is good. i can let that rolls off the tongue . but before you say, you should say like police or something like that. yeah. so it's a little she okay, and i've been 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're welcome for us, you and as well foreseen, could you? well, so it's really useful, we're all young and it's easy to remember compared to all the other one say 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 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, you'll have to city at your feet. i why is progress 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 anymore. surely we locals don't use it as much we use. no, no, no. we use the expression mother of 100 us pires here 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 plain. 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 satisfies that henri and it's not 3 it that the so let's say this is 12. this was like 12121232 is not really precise. oh yeah. so only one by the

sun. if you look, this is the have and here's the song to sing, song moves on the excess. yeah. so in summer on a summer solstice, it's s better from the sun to as possible. and on a winter solstice as close to the center as possible. and it's interesting because you see the blue path, the red pod and the 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 in the day. and you can see when it's in the us closer center. yeah. it's in winter, so it gets alley or not. and then in summer it's later maybe about a stick use really quickly. on the bottom, you have the history and you have the archangel michael, you have the astral just and you have the philosopher. yeah. over there on the top, you have the guy with a merge, which represents 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 are in medieval time, jewish people where the only thing they were allowed to do by was christian where

banking don't want to talk to anything out of the. 1 out of the ghetto, except they would go to doctors done, we needed them. so we allowed them nicely to have 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 really politically correct, and then there's a skeleton discussion, rings about die and is death. it's quite remarkable that death would be depicted in such a way that time isn't it? whatever you do, the message is then then, but india is the death. so just like try to fill the life as a fulfill life. us as much as we can do to really beautiful this where is a must to where every prague visitor as you can see, we're not alone. so where are you from richard scotland prefix eco? i'm come from austin, texas from tank truth. what brings you to prague?

why prague asked betty fuson and her i didn't wondering about actually to just get the atmosphere is the kind of thing that we like to do and to sort of soak it all in. it's a museum in itself. oh, it's wonderful in for is heard progress such a beautiful city. and it is with a local mom 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 like a lever legacy. we're adding to this thing for the buildings were toasty for with the structure of the town and the food and the food of course, 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 similar to lecture classes, but they also are you running of 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 years eve birthday parties. we have these open face and with okay,

with the i just saw a term to pry can 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 days. i must have side dish in the czech republic. the east dumplings are a classic of check cuisine. check shafts like tom ask. helena and luc hash weggit east would have needed several 1000 duncans in just the 1st year of apprenticeship. ready the basic recipe is simple. it. so the chick dog things who really need the chick flow,

what else we want milk to ex freshies. so she'll go and to celebrate. the bread comes later lou cash 1st mixes the other ingredients and needs the dough to the right consistency. then he adds the stale bread cubes back in the days that 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 dumplings of ready to boil and 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 kind of the deny you squeeze the dumpling and flip

with warm gl saved with goulash dock 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 dumb kings have 184 calories almost 3 times as many as boiled potatoes. schmidt, delicious specs. it tastes really, really good, but it is also really filling as all any food. if i eat for dumplings with sauce, i'm foam, and if so, prox time on it. coffee houses also serve as sweet version. check them things with a fruity sweet filling these dumplings. i was 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 region because during the summer times 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 her. it 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 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 in 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 the moving and the different programs. so it goes like

a spiral. it goes exact different programs. and what, because the most famous piece made by who have written by 1st is for van long let them, what was it? so the author of the sculptor called it metro morsels as, as changing missiles, this one in progress called k, apparently like kafka and like joseph k, which is one of the characters from his noble bmw. since 2005, there's been a museum in the city dedicated entirely to kafka. the man who had 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, franz kafka when i'm the think people in prague. i'm saying progress so beautiful

because there were checks germans and juice living together. and friends cries, actually a really good example of this corporation all cultivating because he was a check german. and by the way, he was an altar. 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 francophone is really interesting. personal it, that's what i do. i agree. what do you know about him as a other 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 now. 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 products, cough 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 nightmare actually illogical.

by the afternoon the charles bridge is indeed pretty crowded. despite the unfavourable weather, but apparently still no comparison to the time before the pantomime 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, be 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 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, you know, you see all of these posters like the proc cost flow. charles ridge like no people really like a roof like a really romantic atmosphere. the overthrow isn't really kills the atmosphere and

actually even destroys that thing. because images mills, tons of people coming with really destroys the stuff as well. so how can that be managed though? 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 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, whole issue of it's gotta lead our cisco then 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 areas. thank you so much. i'm are sharing your think i was in love lender meeting

with we've got some hot tips for your bucket list, a magic corner, tread hot spot for food, check and some great cultural memorials to boot 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 hometown for the past 15 years. mm. mm. how important is the river for the people

of law the most important because it santia in south during bohemia, anita i lou in hunger. yeah. which mean it was a, it was a trade, it was a want to wait until late to bring to products. the brown isn't very interesting because it from under i just saw it in the market because that's how it's not civil to build a market because you want to not have the area to which mean demonica to flood will suck, show to hear what they need to build a market here, and you have to have the connection isn't one of 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 reagan's blu ray h by this fancy was way added 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. yeah, that's these documents and you don't need to go to church because every single statue is a patron and the same and you can break to it. right. did people come to pray? oh yes, we have the john of next homework on the bridge and he was the confessor. so the people were confessing. those are stopped you because they said he is a ride run 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, of nipple rather than going to church. mm. 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 alicia. it's the hip part of town. fancy will help many and buildings in a district that grew during the industrialization. this is where sonia lives. she takes me to her favorite cafe. so grandma and he needs done with my whole, you're located kidding me. it's one of my favorite go figure is so unexpected. i know that's like some think like a small paradigm or a little paradise. exactly. so there are a lot of different plans and you can be sitting here always on turco. phase very good or making ever seen 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 year. so you 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. a roosting 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 a price is lower than the terrific center. therefore, we do not live to dine. so we're in the city center because the prizes are here for us, better and me a few, there is a bubba baker river. there is unaddressed surround that is

a tea room here. you can choose what you, i have everything in a. 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 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 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 the sullen trust flip had to perfect defend 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 to day 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 mean, not good, i mean so. so what makes it checked there? so special hops and we'll talk, we have a very special help on day been here and there are have give be a bitterness. and this is very special be, i mean, the hot water is also very special. so you 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 if very soft, i combination of minerals. okay? so the combination elfman was making the best longer and 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 thanks to guys to go to al, coming here to bring back the radius of it's not the checks, it's the germans that come here and drink all your beer tiers to that. yeah. who can blame them? ah, knight 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'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 good bye or better yet not let her know

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