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When you’ve been traveling a bit too much, non-travel months are SO NICE. And that led to a very, very nice month in May.
May is the best month of the year in Prague — so you bet I was happy to be here!
Destinations Visited
- Prague and Vraňany, Czech Republic
Highlights
A nice, lazy month in Prague. That was good.
The month included visiting new restaurants (including Vietnamese spot Rice Field), and spending lots of time with friends.
We celebrated the St. John Navalis festival in Prague for the first time — which, honestly, is the most religious I’ve ever seen this very atheistic country get! There were religious processions through the city, followed by a finale on the river with paragliders jumping from the sky, some even flying underneath the Charles Bridge!
And food festivals, of course — including Pivo a Burger, one of my all-time favorites, which takes place right in my neighborhood and features all kinds of beers and burgers! There was also Korso Krymska, another fun food festival.
We had our favorite Italian food festival at The Italians Wine and Food Market, which we make sure to hit up every year.
Friends came to visit, including my dear friend Tess and her husband Michael!
Visiting Vraňany. I’m visiting a new Czech destination every month of 2024, and this was my new spot — a strawberry farm in the town of Vraňany, which is accessible both by car and by train.
Yep, Charlie and I went strawberry picking, as it’s the best time of year for strawberries! I think we were the only people there without kids, and soon realized why — strawberry picking is so hard on your knees!!
We ended up making strawberry spoon cake, strawberry summer cake, and strawberry lemon sorbet.
Challenges
I always say that May is the best month of the year to visit Prague, with absolutely gorgeous weather. And it is — but this happened to be a cloudier, rainier May than the past few years.
Oh well. That happens every now and then!
That, and I got a cold for the fourth month in a row. I need a break. (Fortunately, since I’m getting this piece published so late, I can confirm that I was cold-free for the month of June!)
And we were supposed to see Bruce Springsteen at the end of…
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