What's the best way to get people to come to the museum of Czech Cubism? Operate an awesome restaurant in the same building. Grand Cafe Orient sports one of the most breathtaking dining rooms one could have the pleasure of having breakfast in. It's so airy and beautiful that somehow eating a two thousand calorie breakfast seems like a light-hearted affair in there. Perhaps it's because everything in this dining room looks like a Renoir painting and therefore the food must not be real either. It is though and it is delicious.
A breakfast like this is pretty poetic and of course we want a bit of "culture" after our meal so we head to the House of The Black Madonna aka Museum of Czech Cubism which is located in the same building. Note for future travelers - a museum ticket gets you a discount at the cafe so perhaps we were supposed to do the museum first. Silly glutenous baes didn't know any better.
The museum is comprised of mostly furniture which weirdly seems an appropriate type of art to look at for two women stuffed to the brim with whipped cream, crepes and ice cream. Somehow filled with this concoction I feel a bit unworthy of appreciating fine art so furniture will do.
We wonder around inevitably imagining cubist furniture in our apartments and take obligatory art deco staircase pictures.
We leave the museum with a clear intention to take a break from eating but Prague is a tricky city. One unassuming turn and we end up in one of Prague's magical courtyards. This one is particularly quiet and pastel. I kinda feel like maybe we ended up inside one of these old-fashioned hat boxes that are filled with tissue paper and ribbons and have a faint smell of lilacs and lavender. The sounds of the busy tourist-infested city become muffled and time slows down. Everything is quiet and pretty and invites you to take a seat and rest for a bit.
We order the Czech version of an iced coffee which is basically ice cream and park our tired asses down there for hours. After all, looking at cubist furniture is exhausting! :)
After hours in the cake-like courtyard, it's time to move on. One more visit to Old Town Square is in order where I am reminded that lolo is an amazing photographer.
I wonder if this city is ever not crowded. Prague is one of the top tourist destinations in the world and for great reasons - it's gorgeous, it's delicious, and it's pretty cheap because the currency conversion works in almost everyone's favor. I can definitely see why a ton of Europeans choose Prague as a weekend getaway. The city center is filled with places like this
that somehow make me doubt the "authenticity" of the dining experience. We did manage to find one spot that I am fairly certain was a local gem. Near our hotel was a little wine bar - a store front of some tiny family vineyard - where one could go and purchase wine by the glass or by the liter if you wanted to take a jug home with you. It's kind of like going to Starbucks with your own tumbler but for wine. This place was a hole in the wall and not a single person there spoke English but the wine was delicious and cost next to nothing.
lolo is making me giggle because she is upset about having to leave Prague tomorrow. Our next stop is Amsterdam and she has never been. We will trade the city where all buildings look like wedding cakes to a city where all buildings look like gingerbread houses and I can't wait!
Before we leave we start a new tradition. In the beginning of our trip i got us a couple of Kinder Surprise eggs that came with little toys inside. We decide to leave a little new bae-habitant in each new place we stay.
Oh, the things this little guy will see in the Love Room...
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