We set this day aside to visit the Pilsner Urquell brewery in a town near Prague. Jeremy could talk much more intelligently about it, but what I gathered was that it was the birthplace of Pilsner style beer. Our train (which had a final destination in Nurmburg, Germany) was packed with people, and most of the seats were reserved. Jeremy had the presence of mind to snatch a spot in the hallway where extra fold down seats were, so we were able to sit at least. A large group of British backpackers near u s were not so lucky, and wound up sitting on the floor throughout the car and the hallways. The train was (of course) then delayed repeatedly for a cumulative 1.5 hours. Oh, and did I mention that there was no air conditioning, although the windows thankfully opened and it was rather cool outside so it wasn’t the hottest train ride we’d had.
We arrived in Pilsner just 10 minutes before the last tour of the day and rushed the few blocks to the Pilsner Urquell plant, arriving just in time to join the tour. The tour itself was pretty cool and included a section in a rotating theater, which was completely unnecessary but really amusing. There were also free samples of a “special brew” at the end (yay) but they were out of big cups when we got there and got small cups that only held half as much as the others got (boo). After the tour, we took a relatively empty and uneventful 2 hour train ride back to Prague, got Chinese food (where we accidentally ordered meaty spring rolls, much to our disappointment), and spent the rest of the evening planning our Berlin stay at the hostel.
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