The Czech language easy or hard?
Hey guys I'm Ross and I'm Bek! We've been staying in Prague for just over a
month and today we want to tell you our honest opinion of the place so I've come
up with a list of hard-hitting questions and I'm gonna be throwing them Ross's
way. She's throwing it down at me get ready
Sum up Prague in one sentence?
an overwhelmingly beautiful city
with lots of quirky things to do and eat as well
Where did we stay? We search for value we went to
Prague ten and well the cost of life there is about half the price of Prague
one it was 10 to 15 minutes on the train or tram into the city and but yeah to
save half the cost we were happy with that also we were completely immersed
with local Czechs rather than being right in the buzz of things
Most unique food?
Pickled cheese now that delicacy here pickled cheese is
actually pretty cool I don't mind it. Your maybe not as much of a fan Bek isn't. We
had a weird one we had a beer cheese with anchovies and onions on there too
and that was quite funky I liked it though I liked it perfect with the pint
Favorite Czech food?
has to be Koleno. I hope I said that right I've been saying it all month but the
knee knuckle from the pig is unbelievable you can get it like dry
roasted or you know in this dark beer braised or glaze that they put in it. Both
versions are incredible we've tried 10 plus knuckles since we've been here and
fallen in love with it perfect dish to share check out our tribute to pork
video if you want to see the most incredible Koleno that we've had
Czech language, easy or hard?
right like we are very respectful travelers we always tried to learn the
basic phrases especially because we're staying in more local areas we really
struggled the Czech language is incredibly complex even just those basic
phrases we kind of failed at you know nailing those so yeah it's really hard
if you're a Czech person please drop some comments down below and tell us if
you think it's easy or hard it seems very tricky for us so many words without
vowels you know like that's very confusing for an English speaker
Worst thing about the place?
Has to be the stag do's the hen do's
Like I get it that it is a spot for you know
beat nights out and like we had a fair few big nights out but just the singing
in the street the stumbling it's a bit overrun in that sense especially at
night time it's a little bit crazy
Something unique?
other than the pandas pretty random pandas walking around in the streets if
you've been to Prague you will know what we mean the other unique thing is just
the sheer portion size here I remember the first night we were here we just
couldn't believe the size of the dish that we got it was off the charts for us
2nd favorite Czech food?
2nd favorite Czech food. How do you? Did you just add this because you want me to
talk about the duck yeah yeah the duck is my second favorite
it's definitely Bek's first favorite 1/4 duck with potato dumplings and this
sort of pickled gravy that's going on like sauerkraut through the gravy
amazing value hundred and twenty crowns really delicious is it too late to
change this to my first favorite all right it's a close second
What do you think it would be like to be a local?
well we loved them they seemed pretty happy but in the districts around Prague 1.
I honestly guys and that's what this is an honest opinion it feels a little
bit of a shame that the locals would really struggle to go into the city
center and enjoy it it's overrun with tourists there's more tourists in prague
than there are locals so at any one time there's more tourists
than locals and yeah you just get this feeling like there's a slight resentment
at people just over running their city and we totally don't blame them we get
it we get it if you stay for one month it will do your head in.
They are level when it comes to desserts but like I said before you don't see many of the
locals eating these they're in Prague one there in all the tourist spots they
go for 120 maybe a 150 crowns but yet all different types of
fillings ice creams and chocolates and all sorts of stuff in there this amazing
cylinder cone that they make out of this special dough it's I don't know it's
next level packed full of sugar you should try one but acknowledge that
you're a tourist the locals are not eating it
Favorite thing to do?
has to be food and great value beer like you know you spend the whole day out
searching Prague for all these amazing experiences and you build up massive
appetite and then for a really good value amount you can go and feed your
face and drink six pints whatever you want it's so affordable my favorite
Our thing to do our favorite thing to do
Most underwhelming thing?
it has to be that astronomical clock it is
beautiful and the whole tower there that whole Old Town Square is amazing but
the routine that it does is is pretty underwhelming I actually googled it and
it was voted the second most overrated tourist thing in Europe there will be
5,000 tourists standing there with their arms in the air with their cameras
taking footage of this yeah on the hour every hour very underwhelming
Prague, good value or not?
There's 22 districts in Prague and it's great value in most of the districts like incredible value for travellers.
The main reason being in the other districts you know
locals earning local wages that's what the prices are set for but in Prague one
you'll pay double and to be honest that's still not too bad and you might
pay 60 crowns for a beer in Prague 1 you might pay 30 crowns for a half litre
beer in Prague 10. 60 crowns is still only four Australian dollars pretty good
for global prices so yes overall Prague is a great value destination still
Favorite drink?
the Pilsner Urquell I have to say is the popular drink for locals it's kind
of like you know you you are only a few hours from Pilsner drink it but I like
the craft beers Bek actually like some of those dark beers there's lots of dark
beers here on tap as well I think Kozel do a few of them and they're
delicious not too alcoholic either most beers are less than 5% alcohol
The best overwhelming thing?
What sort of question is this? It has to be has to be
our first night here we thought we've got to go out and try this knuckle let's
go have the Koleno and we went to a pub local authentic pub
we've got a 1.4 kilo knuckle for 285 crowns and well we didn't think that
would be enough so we ordered some other stuff and just the amount of food that
came out was so overwhelming we were embarrassed we kind of thought and
everyone thinks we're big fat pigs but it was yummy it was so good
How did you get around?
Trams, trains and buses are all the same price it's a universal 24 for crowns gets you
a 30-minute ticket or you can pay a little bit more if you want a longer
period but it's super easy they kind of synchronize all the stops
so the trains link in with the trams and you know it's never more than 20 minutes
from one side to the other wherever you want to go is an amazing place to explore
Is it worth visiting?
absolutely it is contrary to me saying there's too many tourists here yeah it's
an amazing place lots of history so beautiful my challenge to you is step
outside of Prague one and get momentary glimpses of Czech society don't just
stay in the zone get out and kind of see it and you'll get a different experience
Ok you passed the test! Guys we loved our stay we made so many
new Czech friends so hello to all of you and thank you for making our stay
amazing next week we're gonna share some Czech food traditional Czech food with
you so stay tuned for that hit all the buttons you need to and well much love
from Ross and and me that's Bek! Alright guys we'll see you soon thanks for
watching bye