Ok beer is cheap in Prague, it has to be when they drink so much of it. However to put things into perspective:
One medium pizza = 170cz
One Latte = 40cz
One 500 ml. beer = 40cz
Coke 500 ml. = 60cz
One 300 ml. water = 35cz
Tram ride to top of hill on Funicular Railway (cable car) = 18cz
However, and this is the bit that rattles my grunnions….
One SINGLE USE OF PUBLIC TOILET = 20cz (mind you Broom Hilda, the toilet Nazi, pretty much keeps an eye on you to make sure things go as they should). As Derryn Hinch would have said “Shame Shame Shame”. How can you charge so little to fill someone up with beer and then charge so much to recycle it. No wonder our friend Minushka Dolejsi changed her name and moved to Australia. You can run but you can’t hide.
I should note that the prices above are if you eat and drink with the locals, go to the tourist areas and you can double these prices and add a bit for good measure, pretty much like everywhere else on the planet.
So we went up the hill today:
View from Petrin Observation Tower.
Looking straight down.
Below:
Memorial to the Victims of Communism showing seven bronze figures descending a flight of stairs. The statues appear more “decayed” the further away they are from you – losing limbs and their bodies breaking open. It symbolises how political prisoners were affected by Communism.
Looks like they will be building a metronome in Dubai!
By the way we solved the riddle of the beer consumption figures. Beer is available from just about every shop, in fact it’s difficult to go more than a hundred metres or so without seeing beer for sale. On top of that we spotted these guys doing earth works and apparently the beer companies sponsor the work… complete with umbrellas and everything. The big guy … he’s the guy in charge of beer distrbution.
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