Having followed me into the French restaurant the previous night, Dan was very keen to have meal at a little Czech establishment, which had received great revues, called Wine O’Clock. We had to email for a reservation and thus were booked in from 5pm to 7pm on the Saturday evening.
We chilled a bit in the morning and headed off into town for some lunch. While our hotel Le Petit Prague Hotel was pretty basic it was handily placed to the trams, which stopped very near by and went every fifteen minutes.
Dan was very keen to watch the Wales v Ireland rugby match and we found this later in the afternoon at a pub called the Dubliner. Unfortunately because of the time difference we didn’t catch more than twenty minutes of it before we headed off for the little restaurant.
Wine O’Clock was indeed small with three tables for couples and seating for eight along the bar. The food was prepared behind this. As with the French restaurant the walls were stacked with wine, mostly from Italy, but a good selection of Czech wines as well. I enquired about one that looked a bit like a Gewürztraminer, but he said it was a very good one so we decided to try that.
Dan loved the ambience of the restaurant declaring it was just his kind of place.
The meal was excellent and the wine improved with every sip. All in all a lovely experience.
After the meal we headed for the Funicular railway to take us up to Petrin Hill. Dan was keen to get to the top of the tower as the sun was setting When we arrived at the station there was quite a queue. Then there was the rather difficult matter of obtaining tickets from the machine. In the end, with a bit of help from a local Czech, we had to use Czech cash, then the tickets were duly produced. The journey to the top was quite short and we alighted just as darkness was starting to fall and made our way through the gardens to the tower. The gardens themselves would be worth a visit. After obtaining our tickets we climbed the 299 steps to the top where there is an observation platform. There is one halfway as well. There is a lift, but we were happy to climb and you caught glimpses of the city all the way up. The observation platform does a complete circle and the views are stunning;
As a good way of rounding off an excellent day we went for a couple of drinks in a little outside bar to the right of Charles Bridge. It was lovely sitting beside the River Vltava looking at the reflections of the lights in the water and watching an occasional passing boat.
