Czechia 2026 - Day 02 - Tuesday 26th May 2026 - Polyglot Gathering 2026 - Day 02/09 - Prague
- eusts6
- Jun 9
- 3 min read
None of us got much sleep on the train. By the time we arrived in Berlin at 06:00 everyone was fully awake. The sun had come up and it was already getting hot. We continued down south where we entered Dresden and I remembered a previous trip I had with Stanislav where we went to Berlin and Dresden too. When we left Dresden the scenery started to get very spectacular and everyone forgot their lack of sleep and basked in the beauty of the stunning scenery from the train which snaked along the banks of the Elbe sometimes making metallic screeching sounds at sharp bends.
We arrived into Prague at 11:00 and my rental apartment was pretty close by, so I had a coffee and juice and checked in at 12:00 picking up my keys from a kind Vietnamese guy in a gift shop. Now the scenery was gone my lack of sleep was taking over so I slept for two hours.
My first mission was to find and write postcards, and I didn't have to go too far. There was a very large bookshop which I browsed, but as my Czech is non-existent and the English language books were not t my liking I just settled on postcards and returned to bar "Fat Cat" where Alex my waiter served me a cold beer and I wrote all the postcards which took me two pints of beer to complete. Next mission: buy stamps.
The post office was very close but there was a massive queue, so I took a number and did some people watching realising I was being "Czech" as people were carrying out administrative tasks, or sending parcels and all the tourists were somewhere else taking a selfie but not this post office. This was probably the most authentic thing I did in Prague that day if you forget that I had postcards in my hand.
At that stage I was thinking about food so I made my way to a Georgian restaurant called Dergi and sat outside in the sun. I surprised the people there by speaking Georgian and order a shoti (შოთი) a traditional Georgian bread with ajika (აჯიკა) a hot sauce and some Saperavi wine (საფერავი) and my favourite khachapuri - Imeruli - (იმერული ხაჭაპური) a cheese filled bread with lost of molten hot cheese. I have to say, the wine was reliable but the food was not as good as other places I have been to.
After dinner I continued along the river towards the Charle's bridge, it was very hot and crowded, not like I remembered it before so i just wanted to leave and have a cold beer. I passed by the astronomical clock with was surrounded by zombies motionless and pointing their phones upwards at the same angle, I also swiftly skipped this but on my way to my room entered a lovely cooking shop called "Potten en Pannen" and asked them why it had a Dutch name, turns out the owner trained in The Netherlands!
I found my way back to Fat Cat and Alex served me with a cold beer, one was quite enough and I went to sleep early.
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