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So, we woke up about 8:30 am after a very restful night’s sleep. We had arranged for Hanna to make breakfast for us at 9 and, once again, were not disappointed: scrambled eggs, sausage, waffles, yogurt, fresh bread with butter, jam and honey and fresh orange juice and coffee. After breakfast we took a nap (jet lag).

In the afternoon we drove to Tesco for some shopping. Actually, Cindy shopped and I sat in the café. After shopping, Cindy joined me for coffee (and we still had a few dollars left in the bank, if you can believe that! ;-). Before we left we picked up some more fresh bread and cheese to snack on later.

Sunflower Restaurant Dinner this evening was at the Sunflower Restaurant (pictured), we had Chateaubriand with fresh vegetables and parsley potatoes. Delicious! We also enjoyed a couple of Pilsner Urquells on tap. We were too full for desert, which is regrettable because the deserts here are amazing!

This evening there was a wedding reception in the Bar Uno on the bottom floor of the hotel. Hannah invited us down for drinks, but we didn’t feel right about crashing the reception. The noise was tolerable and the party was over by 11:00 pm. The last time we stayed here there was a party that lasted until almost 3 in the morning and our room was right above the bar! We complained to Hannah who was very apologetic and quite accommodating (I believe she genuinely felt bad–she didn’t charge us for the night and gave us a nice bottle of Czech wine when we left). In fact, she remembered us from our last visit and gave us a key for a room on the top floor so we can sleep if the noise from the wedding reception got to be too much.

Tesco Mall We spent the day shopping at the Tesco Mall. Tesco is one of the largest retailers in the world and operates more than 2,300 supermarkets and convenience stores and employing 326,000 people. Their core business is in the U.K., but they operate throughout Europe and Asia. You’ll find Tesco stores in Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Ireland, Slovakia, Turkey, Japan, Malaysia, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand. They’re the world’s “Wal-Mart”.

We browsed the stores in this Tesco Mall and we (or rather, “I”) marveled at the tremendous selection of beer they had. Bottles, cans, kegs, cases and singles in countless quantities and of sufficient variety that one could easily drink a different beer every day and have something different each day for a good three months. Ah, to have the time to do that…

We had a light snack at a small café in the center of the mall. Well, Cindy had a snack, a small sandwich and a Fanta, and I had fermented hops and barley.

This evening we had dinner with friends and are now enjoying the cool night air and clear sky.

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