January 23, 2015

Exploring Pilsen: The Brewery Museum, The Underground Tour and European Capital of Culture

January 23, 2015/ Meghan Oaks

While in Pilsen, there were a couple of other places that we wanted to visit: the brewery museum and the underground tour. I did some research before we went and noted that if you purchases tickets for multiple tours on the same day, you would get a 25% discount. Always looking for a good value, this is what we ended up doing. I thought three tours in one day would be too much but as it turns out, it wasn't.

January 21, 2015

Exploring Pilsen: The Pilsner Urquell Brewery

January 21, 2015/ Meghan Oaks

The morning after our beer bathing experience, we headed on to Pilsen. It was only 45 minutes from Chodovar Plana and made for a nice way to extend our long weekend in the Czech Republic. I had booked us a hotel in the city center of Pilsen, but due to the opening ceremonies of the European Capital of Culture festivities that weekend, car traffic was restricted. Thankfully, there was a parking structure not far away. Our first stop when we got into Pilsen was the Pilsner Urquell brewery. We had planned ...

January 20, 2015

Bucket List: Bathing in Beer

January 20, 2015/ Meghan Oaks

Yes, you read that title correctly. No, we did not accidentally fall into a vat of beer. We did it on purpose. Just kidding, we didn't fall, we carefully stepped into it. This past weekend, we knocked another item off our European Bucket List and took a bath in a tub full of beer, while drinking beer, all in the name of our health!

Czech is known for it's beer. It's given the world the Pilsner style of beer, including Pilsner Urquell and Budweiser (among many others). Ok, so the version of the latter with which most Americans are familiar ...