Our Last Day in Prague

It was our last day in Prague and we were excited to do some things we hadn’t yet had a chance to do, but we started off the day doing what we had done every other day…going to Wenceslas Square. It’s hard to describe why we liked it there so much. The food booths in the large square (essentially a boulevard) made standing outside inviting even when we were freezing. There is something electric about it that made it a nice place to hang out for a while each day. Many demonstrations, protests and celebrations have occurred in Wenceslas Square throughout Prague’s history. Maybe it’s the energy from some of those events that was palpable or maybe we just really liked hot wine. On this day we also tried the delicious trdelnik (a round pastry with sugar, honey and walnuts) and honey wine (Vcelovina), which was really good! 

Honey wine

The trdelnik booth

Wenceslas Square at night

After finishing some errands we needed to do to be ready to leave Prague the following morning, we finally walked across Charles Bridge in the late afternoon. We were in Prague when they ended daylight savings there, so it was getting dark by 4:30. But the sun was out for the entire late afternoon and sunset, making it a beautiful walk across a beautiful bridge. Once on the other side, we went to the Lennon Wall and wandered around the Mala Strana neighborhood and up to the Church of St. Nicholas (we didn’t go inside since they were 

closing).   

Charles Bridge

Our walk across Charles Bridge

Lennon Wall

A beautiful sunset

We took a tram back across the river to Nove Mesto (New Town). We found a bar there to warm up and have a beer and a snack. We used this time to look up a tankovna pub where they serve tank beer. We had wanted to try beer from a tank, which is unpasteurized beer that is pressed out of tanks using a high pressure air compressor so it remains free of any bacteria, but had not run across a tankovna pub on our own. We walked over to U Pinkasu, which is a block off of Wenceslas Square and tried a tank Pilsner Urquell. It was good, not overly dissimilar from the pasteurized Pilsner Urquell, but I’m sure if we had tried them back-to-back the taste difference would have been much clearer.

Tried pivo z tanku at U Pinkasu

We finished up the day with another dinner at Merenda. We really enjoyed it there and its convenient location made it a great place to wrap up our time in Prague. We had a few beers that night wanting to finish off the list of microbrews we’d started the night before. It was a fun end to our last day in Prague. 

Cheers to our last night in Prague! (Note: I was a little behind, not a full beer ahead in the beer drinking seen here.)