"Well, I've finally recovered from jet lag - what a great trip! Lee and Sandi, let's do that again!(I wonder if Kimber missed me?)"
"Well, I've finally recovered from jet lag - what a great trip! Lee and Sandi, let's do that again!(I wonder if Kimber missed me?)"
With several days to kill in Praha we signed up for a couple of out of Prague excursions. The glass factory was quite an interesting place. They hand blown and cut the glass there. The factory is open 24/7 because it would take too long to get the furnaces heated up if they shut it down. It's only shut down after beaucoup years.
Any how - at the end of the video you can see they hand cut their glass using diamond saws. Each person only does one particular type of cut. It must get monotonous. Our guide said it's a dying art.
"I thought Pilzner was only a town in the Czech Republic, but after a long educational tour at the Pilzner Urquell beer factory I'm an educated monkey!
I even toured the old fashioned underground caves where beer was brewed in large wooden barrels.
The best part was getting a free glass of unfiltered, unpasterized pilsner beer out of the keg!
Lee and Sandi didn't like it but (smack, smack) I loved it!"
That's one big glass of beer!
Here we are in Neuremburg. Site of the famous Nazi war crime trials. We went by the courthouse where the trials were held and got an explanation of why they were held in Germany rather than Russia. (Russia just wanted to execute them rather than hold trials - which would have made justice a mockery)
We were dropped off on a square for lunch and I notice this sign above a jewelery store. I guess schmuck has no derogatory connotations in German.
Next stop Czech Republic.
"Hey, I like this Francian wine, give me a couple of glasses! (I'm not a lush!)"
"Hey, this big guy's ok!"
We had a side trip to Wurberg today. Viking cruises has been feeding us gourmet lunches and dinners non stop since we've boarded the ship. This was a change of pace. Our tour guide assures me that the German people eat all of what is on the plate.
For lunch we had a leg of a pig, cabbage and dumpling with gravy. 
Lee's is posing for the picture. This was before he actually took a bite. Fear not, he said it was good!
I asked for coffee with cream after lunch. This is not a picture of a condom but the back of the sugar packet. Our tour guide assures me that this is an ad for a sauna
Our next stop was Miltenburg, Germany. This is in the Bavarian provincee. I didn't realize that much of this area was a wine growing area.
Here are some typical pictures of the the small village here.
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