Best breakfast in Prague: Café Savoy

We had high hopes for our last morning in Prague. 

When we failed to visit the Jewish neighborhood on Saturday, we had planned to go back on Sunday morning. 

This was before going out to dance the night before & wake up later than planned & completely out of phase.

Oblivious of all the cultural visits, the only thing that could make us to go out was the idea of a huge, fat brunch. 

Possibly in a beautiful place.

Which we found in Café Savoy, probably one of the best places for breakfast & brunch :)

The place itself is wonderful, it's like being back in the 19th century. All in wood, the interior is dominated by a magnificent Neo-Renaissance ceiling dating back to 1893. 

Waiters wear black & white suits & there's a very nice clientele.

There are several brunch menus or you can compose your breakfast yourself, choosing from a varied selection of mouth-watering pastries, different styles eggs & hot beverages.

We went for the French breakfast & I also planned to have an additional dessert after the breakfast, as pastries were too good looking & I was very hungry - obviously, I couldn't.

I could not even finish my breakfast. But honestly it was so huge. Look  for yourself!

First you have the best latte I ever had, orange juice & a croissant.

It even deserves a close-up!

Followed by a salty plate with eggs, sausages, cheese, meat, french fries & a selection of breads.

And French toast. The only thing is that they serve the French toast at the same time than the rest, so by the time you finished your first dish, the French toast is cold...

We spent the morning there relaxing, eating & chatting until it was time to leave to go back home.

I highly recommend a visit to Cafe Savoy while in Prague, it really is a beautiful place.

But as all beautiful places, is often full. I suggest to book in advance (which we didn't, but we've been very lucky to have a table. Most of the people who arrived after us couldn't have one).

We walked along the river to go back to the hotel to take our luggages & go to the airport, enjoying some last views of this beautiful city. 

Thanks Prague for the beautiful time for our first, but not last, cousins week-end! :)

A night out in Prague

As you know, due to the noise, we were obliged to switch to another hotel while in Prague.

Not a big issue, the manager kindly found a new place for us, the only problem being that with this change & the new hotel being a bit less centrally located, we were quite late for dinner ;p

We had a list of local restaurants given to Elena by one of her colleagues, but checking them on internet, we realized that most of them were closing at around 10pm... 

We searched a place on Tripadvisor then and a bit disappointed - it's always better to follow suggestion by locals - chose this place called Kotleta. & I must say it was a really good pick! :)

Food was really good & they have many local specialities, waiters were really kind, the place is simple & nice & it's open late! 

We shared a goulash soup for entré which was really delicious! Ok, I must say it was the first time in my life I had goulash so I cannot really compare, but Elena said it was one of the best she's ever had! 

We then had one of the dishes of the day, salmon with asparagus. They had an asparagus-based special menu, as it was asparagus season, even one of the dessert was made with asparagus!

& a more classical chicken schnitzel. 

All washed out by beer - obviously ;)

After dinner, we stroll the Old Town to head to Karlovy Lazne, apparently the biggest club in Europe!

I was expecting a place too crowded with ugly people, with no space to dance & smelling sweat... 

& when we arrived at the club and I saw people queuing in front of the door, my expectations didn't get any better...

But I was happily wrong! ;)

First thing the queue moves really fast & while waiting, you can enjoy a nice view over the river & the castle at night.

Once inside, yep there are a lot of people, but the place is so big that it's actually not a problem :)

There are 5 floors, each with a different ambiance: radio hits on the first floor, dance music on the second one, old songs on the 3rd floor, RnB on the 4th one & lounge on the last one.

We obviously danced on each floor 

before stopping at the old songs one, spending all night dancing on Michael Jackson, Grease, Take That (!!!), Britney Spears, songs from the '80... #superfun!

& drinking some more beer... #wheninPrague ;)

& chatting with people that kept on asking what I was studying at university. Imagine their faces if I had answered "Hmm, actually I finished college like 10 years ago", which I obviously didn't say! Ahah! (Omg - 10 years!!!!!!:s)

Anyway, we ended up happily dancing until sunrise, which made the hotel change totally useless, as we came back after the club's closing... but honestly who would have thought the the biggest club in Europe was that fun? ;)

Prague: swans, Charles bridge & the Dancing house

Let's continue our walk through Prague, shall we?

From the Old Town square, we crossed the river, to go to one of major Prague attraction, Charles bridge.

Although heading there we stopped at an attraction I found even better: a tiny beach packed with beautiful swans.

We sat there in the sun for a while, observing the swans & ducks...

The children playing with them...

And one girl wearing a wedding dress... ?

We continued to the imposing Charles bridge & crossed it, to go back to the Old town.

The bridge is beautiful, there is a tower on each side of it and baroque statues all the long. 

The view over the river & the city from the bridge is equally beautiful. 

Artists, dancers, musicians & souvenirs sellers line up both side of the bridge.   

Nevertheless I felt, as often in Prague, that the place was really too crowded to fully enjoy it.

Anyway, it's time for an afternoon snack. 
Since we arrived in Prague, we saw people eating a cinnamon rolls stuffed with chocolate, ice cream, fruits, whipped cream... The trdelnik - nope I can't pronounce the word neither..

We compared a couple of stalls, choosing the one that looked nicer and ordered 2 chocolate cinnamon rolls. It's really the perfect afternoon snack, when in Prague :)

Eating our roll, we followed the river to the Dancing House.

Everywhere we looked, people were enjoying the warm sunset on the river banks or on little boats.

We were particularly tempted by these big balloons to walk on the water. 

Before I started to worry that once inside, I wouldn't have enough air to breathe...

Anyway, we were supposed to be at 7pm at our hotel so that the concierge could walk us to our new hotel, so we didn't really have the time to walk on the water...

We continued our stroll then, looking at the beautiful buildings...

until we arrived at the Dancing House.

Also known as Fred & Ginger (from Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers), the Dancing house is a building remembering a pair of dancers, designed by the Croatian-Czech architect Vlado Milunic & the Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry. 

A charming & funny place :)

The afternoon coming to its end, we went back to our hotel to prepare ourselves for the our last night in Prague - do you know that in Prague there is the biggest club in Europe? But this is tomorrow story ;)