Eurotrip with Dorbz: Czech Republic and Germany!

It’s been a while since our last post and it probably will be longer till our next. Trying to bring yourself to write in the evenings when you’re exhausted from walking (and usually eating) is pretty tough, especially when a bed is so close by.

I’ll keep this one simple as I'm tired and have forgotten the name of many of the places we've visited.

So, the Czech Republic!

This was our first stop in Europe and for me, it was pretty emotional finally touching down in my 'ancestral' country for the first time (my parents, grandparents, great-grandparents and great-great grandparents are all Czechs). We stayed at a lovely hotel that has been used in the past as a convent, a jail, a hostel and now a hotel. Anyone staying in Prague should go there=) It’s called Unitas

We spent a few days in Prague with my brother, tour guide Tim, and checked out every church we crossed and many other ancient attractions. As I said, Im too tired to list them all, but truest me when I say we we very tired at the end of each day.
On our second day there, I was unfortunet enough to come down with heat stroke. It didnt hold me back from going for a pub dinner, but the roast duck and dumplings were cold in comparison to my tempreture=(
It was amazing to here so many stories and legends. Mum and Tim has a story to tell about almost everything we saw.

Tim took us to a pub called The Pub where taps are on your own table. Since how much you pour is recorded, there is also a giant screen showing the drinking scores of other tables in pubs across Europe.

I’ll leave Prague at that for now. There is so much more I wanted to write about, but I would be here forever. Next, we travelled to the small village of Malé Babice where my relatives lived. Besides my direct family and one of my cousins, it was the first time I had ever spoken and met my relatives, including my grandad, Funda. They were all a wonderful bunch of food, beer and slivovitsa loving people. Even with my broken Czech, I managed to get some conversation in. You learn very quickly while in Europe that you don’t need to know the language to get along, although it sure does help!

I should also mention that they had a beautiful piece of property, as well as a garden full of cherry trees, berries, strawberries, apples, plums and pears. I was so delighted spending some of the afternoon picking cherries of the trees=)

Walking through the village where my mum grew up. She came back for the first time in 30 years last year and she was still getting over at how much things had changed.

Brendan judges the trees.

Cheery tree!

After our stay in Czech, it was over the border to Germany to Dresden for 1 day, Berlin for 2 and then Breman (where we are now) for 1 day. Even with its past history, Berlin is not a city I would like to go back to. Dresden and Breman are beautiful in comparison and also had a lot to see. Too sleepy to type, so have some pictures!