In Prague
My last full day in Prague and after a week of sunshine and heat the weather has turned cooler with spots of rain.
All round Prague I've seen shops and kiosks selling something called Trdlo of Trdelnik. (Trdelnik sounds like it's connected to Zwilnik in the Lensman books.) At first I thought it was the Czech for ice cream cone but I finally realised it was something different after seeing signs for Trdlo and ice cream. In the Jewish area, there was a sign advertising the first and only kosher Trdelnik in Prague. "A traditional Bohemian food" said one advert.
So I looked it up. It appears from Wikipedia that it's been a tradition in Prague since 2010, which probably explains why I don't remember it from the last time I was here in 2006. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trdelník It is also described as a kind of spit cake, which sounds disgusting but just means it's cooked on a spit.
Another old Czech tradition seems to be a large number of places offering Thai massage. Sounds a bit dodgy, but it looks like the massages are taking place in the room with windows on to the street so probably nothing naughty going on.
Several shops are offering cannabis beer and I've even seen a cannabis beer pub. I've never tried cannabis and I'm quite happy to drink Czech beer without such additives.
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All round Prague I've seen shops and kiosks selling something called Trdlo of Trdelnik. (Trdelnik sounds like it's connected to Zwilnik in the Lensman books.) At first I thought it was the Czech for ice cream cone but I finally realised it was something different after seeing signs for Trdlo and ice cream. In the Jewish area, there was a sign advertising the first and only kosher Trdelnik in Prague. "A traditional Bohemian food" said one advert.
So I looked it up. It appears from Wikipedia that it's been a tradition in Prague since 2010, which probably explains why I don't remember it from the last time I was here in 2006. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trdelník It is also described as a kind of spit cake, which sounds disgusting but just means it's cooked on a spit.
Another old Czech tradition seems to be a large number of places offering Thai massage. Sounds a bit dodgy, but it looks like the massages are taking place in the room with windows on to the street so probably nothing naughty going on.
Several shops are offering cannabis beer and I've even seen a cannabis beer pub. I've never tried cannabis and I'm quite happy to drink Czech beer without such additives.
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comments there so far.