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Thursday July 7th
My night’s sleeps were improving but not by a great deal and by now I was getting an ulcer on my tongue. Not fun. Next time I go away I’ll definitely take something for it rather than just try and deal with it on my return.
I went back up to the National Museum, having left the hotel around 10.45am and in my shorts, but I didn’t go the same route as last time. I went up so that I came out in Wenceslas Square around the halfway point and then walked up. On entering the museum, it was good for a while but then I got a bit bored with it all. Plus, I paid 200kr (£8) for the audioguide which was okay for a while but you soon find it drones on and on, and if I wanted that then I’d have got married(!)
For lunch it was KFC again, around 2pm. but this time I went back to the one near the Square. For the rest of the day I went into the Wax Museum and did some gift shopping, including buying a clock that was apparently hand-painted in Prague, yet said “Made in Germany” on the back. This was the same clock that was sold in lots of places.
As it was my last full evening in Prague, I went for dinner at the Staromacek again, where I’d been for a meal on Tuesday and the drink on Weds, and where at least one waiter laughed to see me again because it was my third night in a row (well, it was cheap and delicious). After the meal and a couple of drinks, I went for a wander and eventually to a bar on the way back to the hotel, the U Vejvodu, which had one of the cheapest beers I’d seen listed at 32.90kr (I don’t know why they don’t round it up to 33kr as when I bought crisps at 19.90kr from a supermarket, they managed to add a random tax to make it a round 20). I went on, ordered a beer, gave the surly barman 35kr and watched how he didn’t return with my change. Okay, so I didn’t care about 2kr (around 8p) but I still thought, “You cheeky twat. How many more people are you doing that to?” Maybe it’s like the ‘take a penny, leave a penny’ trays in the US where you get your small change from those, but I didn’t see one. Hey ho.
After that, it was heading towards midnight and I had to get everything packed in the morning for a latest check-out time of midday.
I tried out the clock which I bought, but even when testing it with some of the newly charged batteries, the hands would not go round. Shit. We’d been told by Deanna, on Tuesday, how poor customer service is in the Czech Republic, so I didn’t know how I’d fare in the morning when I took it back. Hey, at least I’ve got my receipt!
Reviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor from the same year. Running DVDfever.co.uk since 2000. Nobel Peace Prize winner 2021.