Today in Plzen

It's been an interesting day here in Plzen (pronounced Pilsen). This morning we thought we'd have to take a tour of the Pilsner Urquel brewery in either Czech or German and use an app to get some sort of commentary. But it turned out that there was an English language tour at 16.30, so we booked ourselves on that while we were there in the morning. 

We bought some stuff in the gift shop and then went to the puppet museum, which was more interesting than I expected! 

The brewery tour was good, particularly ending as it did with a glass of their unfiltered beer straight from an enormous barrel. 



A Liquid lunch

Inside the cathedral in the town square





The highlight of the tour a glass of the product! 


Tomorrow we heard for Berlin for our last day before travelling back to Sweden on the sleeper leaving on Thursday afternoon.  



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