Lunch Isn't Just Lunch

When you are traveling there seems to be one common theme. Where is the next meal coming from. Any time we are on a driving trip the usual suspects always come up. There's McDonald's, Burger King, DQ, Pizza Hut and any number of regional fast food joints, each one worse than the last. Ask any of my kids. They rather go hungry than eat at these places. In fact, I have been on hockey weekends with Jordan and another parent and his kid and had arguments over what is acceptable to Jordan. Usually, we settle on Subway.

This time we are in Prague. The first place we see that is familiar is in the airport. It's KFC. Good old Kentucky Fried Chicken. Isabella is laughing and says, "I don't think we'll be eating there." On to town we go. We are staying in Old Town. The choices for dining in town are nearly limitless. Seriously, there is traditional Czeck, Italian, German, Polish, Americi (American), Greek and so on. So with so many choices how do you choose. First you try to follow your nose. Then you whittle the list down by price. Some of the restaurants probably survive on unsuspecting tourists that haven't quite figured out how to quickly perform currency conversion calculations. Then when all else fails and the people in your group start getting bitchy cause they are hungry and tired you duck into the next place that smells good and spend $150.00 on a meal for 4.

The meal is great but sitting there paying the tab you are trying to figure out what the hell went wrong. Get over it, it doesn't matter, you are going to be here a while. The next day gets better. You've had a little rest, you start to go exploring and then you find out that you can have a great lunch for about $3.50 per person. If we eat like this for several days I figure I can bring the average daily meal cost down to less than $15.00 per day per person. Sounds good but not real practical because we are out and about and Eileen decides to have lunch at a monastery because of the view. Don't get me wrong the food was fantastic but the view made it even better. If you ever find yourself in Prague go to the Strahov Monastery and have lunch on the terrace overlooking Prague. With drinks it cost about $65.00 for Eileen, Isabella and myself. But the view is something you will find nowhere else in the world.