The Dirty K

Sunday Morning

Alarm goes off at 7:30am. We get on the bus at 9:00am to go to Cesky Krumlov. A small town/village/city about 3 hours away. All the JS/CES students are on the same bus, theres only about 40 of us so no big deal.

I apologize for the following details, but they are necessary for understanding this journey.

So if you recall, I had Chinese food the night before. About 5 minutes into our bus ride, I proceeded to experience the second worst heart burn of my young adult life. It was so awful I thought I would have to stop the bus and run through the fields screaming in agony.

That didn't happen, but it was really awful.

Arrival in CK around 11:45am.

We go to our flats, I roomed with this guy Jack. We got two twin beds, some girls were not that lucky. A group of us grabbed some lunch at a random Czech restaurant. For some reason it took us a very long time to pick a restaurant. I'll be posting pictures shortly of the town so you get some sense of it. Its very historic, some might say backwater, but it was cute.

After racing through lunch with met up with the whole group (including the Film students). We went on a castle tour for about an hour and a half. The main draw of CK is the awesome castle.

We ended our tour in this sweet cafe. CET paid for one drink per person. The hot chocolate was just literally hot... chocolate. It was obviously delicious.

Following a super long lecture from our tour guide, Bryce, a group of us decided to grab a drink before dinner. We had to meet at 7pm and it was only 5pm.

Using the navigational skills of our Czech buddy Petr/Peter/Pedro, we found this weird cave bar/pub. We were put in a backroom where we each enjoyed a very expensive beer. We had some laughs though, and the time soon passed.

Around 6:45pm, we went out into the night. We took a wrong turn but ran into a group of lost film students. Together we found the brewery where CET would be feeding us. We were going to be eating in the beer hall. It was a huge spacious room with tons of tables. Very cool.

The food was great. The beer was interesting. I got the light, and it had an almost caramelly taste to it. Very sweet. But good. A gypsy band was in attendance for us to enjoy. As Jiri said, "merriment and dancing."

Once everyone finished dinner, by everyone I mean 60 some people, everyone went to get more drinks. This is just about when the nickname the Dirty K comes in...

When you see directors of your program dancing with students and drinking things tend to get a little funny. Needless to say, everyone had a great time. Some more than others, but I'm pretty sure we will all remember that night in the Dirty K.

I forgot to mention that it was snowing all day. It was the type of snow that was only snow in the air. Once it hit the ground it might as well have had been rain. So around 1am a group of us decided to walk home. Walking became much more like iceskating. No one slid off the bridge though. Thankfully.

The next morning a bunch of us met to wander the city. We had to be at the bus at 3pm, but had the rest of the day to ourselves. So around 11am we hit up the Fairytale House, which turned out to be nothing more than an attic full of creepy marinonettes.

Then our group split up. Petr and some girls went for a walk, while a bunch of us went to check out the church. The church was boring so we soon left. Some people wanted chocolate so we split up again. After the chocolate we wandering around for a short amount of time then decided to get lunch. It was about 12:30pm. Jiri gave us a coupon for 20% off any of 4 restaurants. So six of us went to one of the restaurants on the list, having no idea what we were in store for.

I ordered the Beef in cream sauce with bread dumplings and cranberry. It was a generous portion of beef with a pile of cranberry on top, then whipped cream on top of that. Along with 5 or 6 dumplings. It was, by far, the best meal I've had in my life. Or close to it. Or top 10. It was so amazing. Theres a picture somewhere that I'll dig up and post. Oh, and the cost, about $5.50...

So at 3 we left the Dirty K behind. It was a good trip. There was a lot of history there, a lot of pictures taken, and a couple of interesting memories.