He probably never existed Catholics made the story about him up. So that they too would have a Catholic hero saint. To combat the protestant Jan Hus who they burned at the stake. Who all the Czech protestants wanted to revenge for. Hence the Hussite Protestant Wars
@@jabanan Just to clear something up, Jan Hus was around 100 years before the Reformation, and acts more as a proto-Protestant reformer. The first Hussite conflict stated only a few years after Hus was killed
@@djspacebard it is true that there is a 5 year gap. But still the Hussite war has a lot to do with Jan Hus. They even named themselves after him. Even though true be that there were two main groups the Radicals and the Non-Radical, so even they weren't that all united
@@djspacebard and yes he was a sort of pre-protestant but still very similar opinions to Martin Luther. I think it still classifies as protestant Christian, but yes at that time it was Catholic believer who listened to Jan Hus and probably thought that maybe they want change
If John had not been martyred, he probably would never have become a saint... But to shed some light on this - Charles IV could not have been thrown over Charles Bridge, because he founded the bridge in 1357 and at the time of his death (1378) only some of the piers of the bridge were built - it was not completed and opened until 1402. So even with St. John of Nepomuk it was quite a chase because he was killed in 1398 - but by then most of the bridge was already finished... And by the way - he was tortured at the behest of Charles' son King Wenceslas IV, but not because to force him to divulge the confessional secrets of the King's wife (as the Church subsequently invented), but because the King had a dispute with the Archbishop and John was the Archbishop's confidant. John was canonized quite late (in 1715) because the Catholic Church was trying to suppress Protestantism in the Bohemian lands and so every prelate killed was fit to be a saint...
It will always be Beaver Island to me 😂 We had a Wonderfull time in Prague, I laughed so much watching your take on my video, Thanks for the education.
Those are definitely Nutrias. When I worked at a pet register in Germany, sometimes people called to report a nutria found. They thought it was an escaped pet, because it was so trusting and friendly. I would have liked to know what the nutria was thinking when someone took them home with them to try to find the owner 😂
@@ssebb2020 They're an invasive species and have no real natural enemies, even in Prague they've become a problem to local wildlife. So yes, it's not really surprising that they're hunted here in Germany.
Exactly - muscrat is 3 times smaller then nutria and has a flat tail shorter then herself while nutria has orange teeth and round shaped tail that can be longer then nutria's body. 😉
It’s a nutria. They were imported from South America to be used for food, etc. a quick google search turns it up. I joke to the kid that loves to feed them they are delicious!!
Good thing that you keep the old Czech tradition of having a great sense of humour and the ability to laugh at tragedy. How else could we survive in the middle of Europe?
I'm even more shocked how badly these "travel bloggers" get so much wrong and are so uninformed about things that they're technically "educating" others about.
You have made my last two and a half days in Prague so much fun! Had several 😂 local beer, Czech food (pork knuckle, beef in cream gravy with currents and dumpling, goulash with dumplings) at several restaurants, no chimney cakes but yes to Kolasch. Easy city to navigate so lots of walking to allow for more beer. Okay, the show at the clock is short but to see all the functions of the clock and take time to study the. - awesome. Thanks for your help planning this trip and I look forward to returning.
My nephew will be heading to Prague(Praha) soon, told him to watch and subscribe to your channel. I couldn’t stop laughing at your commentary on these clips.. When we travel I try to be as respectful and learn the facts before ever making assumptions. Can’t wait to visit Prague again, this channel has surely made me aware of all the places we missed..
I went back to Prague in 2017 having lived there for 3 years from 2003 to 2006, and the trdelník was a complete novelty to me. I kept asking myself if I was suffering from amnesia because I had no memory of it. I was very confused at how they were calling it an old Prague speciality when I had never seen it before. I actually tried one for the complete novelty of it, & it was like eating sugar-encrusted cardboard.
That's a Capitalism for you. If someone can convince somebody to buy a little something, others will start their copycat stores and in few years it will be "traditional for centuries".
I'd say that's roughly when they started to emerge, around 2003-2006. At least from what I remember. Me and my friends would sometimes get them and I thought they were delicious, but they were much more simple, just the leavened dough, when still hot, put into cinnamon sugar. They were made fresh. Now it seems they often either sit there or are not baked enough, but idk, didn't eat one in couple years here in Prague :)
I'm a Czech woman and I remember EXACTLY when the trdelník all of a sudden appeared in Czech Republic. I was still at High school (so about 20 years ago) and in summer I was searching for a job to make some extra money. The job I found was to sell this total novelty called 'trdelnik' at different spots in my little hometown in the east of Czech Republic... I remember these trdelníks tasting like heaven. Then many years later I bought one of those in Prague and was totally disappointed by the taste. It was NOTHING like the trdelniky I was selling 20 years ago.... It's definitely better to opt for the true Czech dessert, which are all these koláce, or laskonky, or marokánky or vetrniky or indiánky. They are so delicious and 100% Czech. HONEST GUIDE also made a video about those.
You're not wrong about the nutria. I looked it up because I thought they were muskrats, too but they're different again. Closer to muskrats though. BTW, I work in a touristy area in my city and the Lime scooters are everywhere. I will never again be able to look at them and not think of the phrase "I hate them worse than diarrhea."
Czechs should spread funny stories to the tourists and see how far they spread. For example Charles was thrown off the bridge on to the island and eaten by beavers for eating trdelnik.
I’ve seen many of your videos, as an American, but former resident of Prague, who comes back to visit frequently, I’ve really enjoyed watching your videos over the past three years. So informative and also so entertaining! Please keep it up.
I’m with you on the scooters! I live in a tourist city in Poland. People leave those scooters laying on the ground all over the place, often blocking sidewalks. It is like toddlers use them, not responsible adults who would leave them upright and out of the way. They are an eyesore to me. I loathe them!
@@OperationBaboon , muskrats have a tail that's flat on the sides and scaley, nutria have round, hairy tails. These are nutria, as stated in the video.
In Belgium, these nutria, known as Beaver Rat. They are actually from South America and are aquatic rodents. They are exotics that have found habitat here in Europe.
I think the important messeage here is to explore (and perhaps understand) how tourists percive your city. It goes for not only Prague. Still good fun!
The picture at 9:28 is clearly a Nutria, by the thick white "beard" hairs and the teeth. Muskrats (the name presumably originally derived either from an Algonquian word for "it is red" or the Abenaki word mòskwas and no rat at all) are also a bit smaller, have a smaller snout, and their tail looks rather oval. Nutrias come originally from South America, but were introduced to Europe by fur farms (where they sometimes escaped), starting in France and Germany. Muskrats (also called Bisam in some countries) are originally from North America; in 1905 Prince Joseph Colloredo-Mansfeld released some near Stará Huť in Czechia. In 1929 some hundreds were released in northern Russia and Sibiria; in 1930 about 500 escaped from a breeding facility in France.
When you're around the region, you definately have to try lángos. I'm from Hungary, and it is a quite popular street food over here as well, but that's not pizza for sure.
I would say medovnik is quite traditional or at least definitely not just a tourist thing... It may be not originally from Czechia but it's here for quite a long time and locals eat it
The first time I came to Prague was for a Swing Dance event, and we were very lucky to be guided around town by Prague natives, who gave us an impression of the town that was quite different from the usual tourist’s view. Thanks again for that!
I wouldn't say there are a lot of free museums in Prague. The military museum is the only one that comes to mind. The National Museum, the National Gallery, the City of Prague Gallery, the Kampa Museum, etc. all cost money except for a few times a year...
As an Englishman living in the neighbouring country of Slovakia where we also have Langos. The fried pizza thing made me laugh. Also I am fully aware the S at the end of the word should have the little v above I just couldn't get it to work
Lángos is actually Hungarian spelling. 'S' is in Hungarian pronounced as 'sh' in English or 'š' in many Slavic languages, while 'sz' is pronounced like 's' in most other languages.
According to Wikipedia (I know, that can easily be wrong, but these seem right), Beaver names for Nutria: - Dutch, it is known as beverrat (beaver rat). - German, is known as Nutria, Biberratte (beaver rat), or Sumpfbiber (swamp beaver). - Italy, it is also called castorino ("little beaver"), . - In Swedish, the animal is known as sumpbäver (marsh/swamp beaver).
One thing I hate in every flippin tourist video: "The castle is a thousand years old" or "The castle was built in the 9th century". And it's fairly obvious most of them actually think all of it was built back then. Kinda funny and sad at the same time. I also love when someone calls the spires or the front facade of St. Vitus' "medieval". :-)
Yes, I can feel that. I have the same feelings when watching videos about Berlin where I live. That’s exactly why your videos are so valuable and wonderful!
I remeber visiting the museum of communism with my (Australian) ex. She seemed very dissapointed that I wasn't more enthusiastic until I reminded her that I lived through this. I have to admit I did feel a bit of nostalgia upon seeing an old pioneer uniform but it was definitely fleeting.
I'd take exception with guláš. Yes, gulyás is hungarian but that's a very different dish from the Czech one. The Czech version has been here for more than a century. I'd call that traditional.
You know what would be a great thing to do is to invite each one of these people to come and make a video with you. In their video with you, you go around showing them iconic (possibly unknown) places that would be great for them and their viewers to visit and then in your video with them, you follow them while they point out places that they would think about spending their money at and you point out to them why those places are bad (likely scams or tricking tourists.)
What I as a youtuber got wrong about your city was apparently the different subtypes of modernised Tatra T3. I uploaded videos of b-roll footage of the Tatra T3M and the Tatra T3P, and was told that I'd got them the wrong way round.
Hah, that was a smooth transition to the sponsor. I was wondering where it was going, if you just wanted people to start calling the island Shark Island instead or just wanted people to start saying that it's surrounded by sharks and trying to spot sharks, but then the sponsor came through. Well done sir!
Would be interesting to know why there is such a big Nutria population in Prague? This might be a great topic for a video. I am also sure there is someone in Prague (maybe the zoology department of the university etc.) that would be able to tell this story. Nutrias (not the same as muskrats) are no native animals to europe. They originate from south america. The muskrats are north american. But nowadays we have both in europe and are invasive neozoos and listed like that by the EU. From what I could find out in a quick search was that most of them were animals that escaped from fur farms and came to europe for their fur.
U Pavouka is absolutely fun to do once! But more fun : The Brand Experience by Pilsener Urquell, it has been recently opened and is a cool way to visit the plzen brewery's history without a daytrip to plzen!
I stayed in Prague for a week a couple of years ago, just before the covid problem. Loved the city. Saw an opera by Mozart in the same theater Mozart premiered that opera, Don Giovanni . Great experience and very affordable. Prague seemed loaded with inexpensive and sometimes even free musical events. Also want to mention Cafe de Paris as a restaurant I loved.
I LOVE this channel! We are flying to Germany again in November, and Prague is DEFINITELY on the list. I am ONLY using YOUR channel for ideas and information and thank you so much for all your help!
4:07 They also throw Lime Scooters off the bridge and into the water. You did a video about this Janek. 7:50 More like: Alexander Beaverton or Alexander Nutrington (Named after Nutria)
Growing up in a german forest, we once had an infestation with Nutria's, which our neighbour kept feeding and called them "beaveries". I've never actually seen nutria in any media, so that was quite a nice callback to my childhood.
Nutria in English are known as Coypu. The fact that Google translates nutria as otter explains why the guide on the boat trip we took kept referring to them as otters.
tbf wiki states that nutria and coypu are the same thing. Also, nutrias are kind of a new thing here, I only learned about them like 5 years ago. I think I heard they're an invasive species from South America. So a lot of Czechs have never heard about nutrias and call them beavers or otters in Czech as well. Obviously a guide on a boat trip in Prague should know better tho.
I am an American. My first time to Prague was in 1991. My husband and I fell in love with the city. That was before the hoards of tourists were there. Also before there was any hint of westernization, such as Starbucks, was there. It was so charming and authentic. I still love Prague. I have been there 6 times and for the last 10 years I have lived next door in Poland. I view Prague as my second home in Europe. But in my heart, I prefer the Prague of 1991.
I mean, the McDonald's and Starbucks in the city center can be ugly, and the tourists get on my nerves sometimes, but I definitely prefer the Prague of today. Everything is much cleaner and the buildings are in a much better state of repair.
@@Starkiller935 Yes, I very well remember the buildings of 1991. Buildings are cleaner. But the streets are more littered with trash. There are trade offs. We all have our preferences.
I love the way you support tourism’s and share information and I sought you on old video explaining to people on border to pay online and i watch even that i cant visit yr country because of visa and thank you from morocco u r such a nice guy and your friend also
Hi Janek 👋 Hi Honza My husband discovered you last week. He was so impressed with your video that he asked me to watch it the minute I woke up! Once I was done I immediately subscribed. Because of your videos, he wants to visit your beautiful Prague! I’ve always wanted to visit but now he’s on board too! That’s a wonderful thing! We would love to meet you both when we visit and dinners on us! If your in town and available that is 😃 After watching your videos I just want to tell you to PLEASE stay safe!
The trdelnik actually originates from Slovakia, the city of Skalica and it is called Skalicky trdelnik. Slovak people actually do eat it, although it was more popular in the past, but we usually get it on special occasions like at fairs during the holidays etc.
Cracking up here about nutria; we have a LOT of them along the Gulf of Mexico Coast in the Southeastern United States (Texas to Florida). In fact, we have nutria rodeos because they are such an invasive species. The pelts are commonly used. Every day on my commute, I pass quite a few who didn't make it across the road and have had to dodge them myself before.
I have no idea about the traditionality of the honey cake, but I see it as a “traditional” Czech cake and one of the things to eat as a tourist. Just like in England you’d want to eat carrot cake, cheesecake or Victoria sponge. But I will say that it’s hard to find the right way of it in cafes, it’s so easy to have it too dried and it spoils your experience. Also cafes are way too expensive, so when I’m in Prague and feeling like Medovnik, I buy it in a supermarket, either the whole thing or boxed up slice. Still cheaper than in a cafe and because it is wrapped, it will not be dry and hard.
I had to google Nutria, in norwegian they are called sumpbever. directly translated to english it is called swamp beaver. Great video as always, keep it up :D
The coolest Starbucks I have seen is in Varna, Bulgaria on the Black Sea. When you enter the front door, you can look down through a glass section and see old Roman ruins that were found under the street.
Janek, you look so much like my cousin, it’s mind-boggling, right from the scruffy beard over the style and down to the smile. You have a brother by another mother!
The funniest one I saw was the guy who discovered the Kafka Museum, and kept wondering why there were pictures of Anne Frank there. He never did realize the portrait was of Kafka, though he KNEW he was at the Kafka Museum!
We would call Nutrias "Coypu" and it seems they are causing a problem in Prague and shouldn't be fed if possible. Oh, and "laughable" might not be the meaning you were looking for. In the UK this would indicate that you more or less have contempt for the thing, whereas I think you probably meant "made us laugh" - quite different! Love your videos by the way and thank you!
Nutria are smaller than a beaver but larger than a muskrat; unlike beavers or muskrats, however, it has a round, slightly haired tail. The forelegs are small compared with its body size. The forepaws, have five toes; four are clawed and the fifth is reduced in size.
You guys are not wrong about calling those animal "nutria". But neither are tourists calling them "beavers". Actually, the scientific classification of those animals is Myocastor coypus, which means that they are really closer to beavers and rodents in general (the word Myocastor means "mouse beaver".) Those animals are originally from South America and, apparently, Spanish conquerors just wrongly referred to them as "nutria" based on similarities in behavior to otters (otter in Spanish is "nutria"). Therefore, we just learnt different names for the same type of animal! (Who the hell brought nutrias / beavers to Prague!?) Cheers!
If I remember correctly it have something to do with wild and confusing '90s (era of biggest scams, most common bribing in government & healthcare, times of well-known oligarchs/mafians, biggest chaos in everything caused by constant changes in every aspect from lifestyle to law and government system). There were fur farms where nutrias (and other fur animals) originally lived, but then our country changed laws (about lowering or ending dotations for big fur farms - l was child so I don't exactly know and internet doesn't help). But one thing I know for sure that owners of fur farms got "awesome" idea - why spend money to get ridden of their fur animals when they can secretly let that unwanted animals "run away" to wilderness. These people got away with it or they paid only low fine. By the way, even before that change of law there were small population of nutrias in wilderness (since '60s-'70s) but nobody cared about it. These first nutrias probably escaped accidentally without help of humans.
Prague is a beautiful city and I loved my short time there, if I had anything to suggest it would be to just walk around and look at things. Try new stuff. I found some awesome cafes by just walking around. Walked around some nice little neighbourhoods and cute little parks and things just by going in a random direction and walking for a while. Great city, I want to go back there.
I think Janek was pretty inaccurate about this one :) While it's very common to use the cheapest cheese for "smažák" the better restaurants (and I don't mean any luxury ones, just a bit better ones) usually use at least gouda. Of course this kind of gouda would be an insult to the Dutch, but the thing is the cheese can't have too much fat content (more expensive cheese tend to have more fat % in them) because you are aiming for more stiff consistency rather than just cheese pouring out of the crust.
I got recommended your last border crossing video, then went here.. This is amazing marketing for your city and country. Suddenly it's on my list, and I bet I'll find good tips in the rest of your videos!
I had langos in Romania, such a great food. Sadly I didn't know they had them in Prague as well, otherwise I'd definitely have gotten one, or two, or more. I'd highly recommend langos to anyone visiting, well, Central to Eastern Europe.
Hey. What would be the cake you woud consider the most traditional Czech speciality? I think I know more of savoury things than desserts. My foundest name memories is utopenec, I had to try it just for the name, and bramborak which always made me think of Rumburak. (Yes I did grew up on Arabella). Funny thing I remember eating one of the best pizzas in my life in Prague (real one it was an italian place, with a traditional oven you could watch them taking out the pizzas and lasagnas)
@@theoteddy9665 Completely agree! Koláč is the most traditional, větrník the yummiest. If you ever find yourself in a Czech sweet shop, I'd also recommend a "likérová špička" - my international colleagues found them hilarious when they first saw and tasted them. It's a very Czech experience!
There are tons of great pastry. Try buchty, buchtičky se šodó, kremrole, štrůdl, šátečky or rakvičky 🙂 also dumplings can be sweet and filled with all sorts of fruits and you can either eat them with sugar and cinammon butter or gingerbread or cacao powder or other types of toppings
In Ostrava just outside the Nova Karolina mall, there is a thriving trdelník stand. We are not a tourist town, so it seems that at least some of us have embraced this dessert. I still have not tried it, and I probably will not. I will get other desserts at one of the bakeries as I stroll through our city centre instead.
Went to Prague when I was doing a quarter of college in Dresden. It was a long time ago, before Starbucks had traveled outside the US. Our TA was from there so he took us everywhere to go and eat. I never saw those pastry things but knowing they are made for tourists wouldn’t stop me from eating them now. I never saw Beaver Island either. I did however eat lung roast because we let our TA order for us in a restaurant with no English menus and google translate didn’t exist then.
Janku, should make one video in Skalica. If you try real trdelník, where it is made, eaten with Devín wine under the St. George rotunda, you´ll see why people love that pastry.
Could you maybe create a video showcasing free toilets? We spend 8 days in Prague at the start of the month and other than inside museums or other paid attractions, we found just ONE free toilet near the gardens below Prague castle. Most of the paid toilets cost 20ck which is pretty steep, and only accepted cash with no card.
the hungarians must've begun sharpening their knives at the very moment the woman called a langoš a "pizza"
i became a Blaha Lujza square underpass "guard" when she said pizza
when she said pizza instead of lángos i got a heart attack from this
i'm also sharpening my knives for czech peope putting ketchup on lángos :(
@@geo7038 make sure to find them all
@@geo7038 There are close to no Czechs working in the tourist places in the city centre. Look at e.g. the lady that hands over the trdelnik.
"We didn't throw Charles out of the bridge"
Me: of course they couldn't do such thing.
"We tortured and throw St. John"
Me:😮
He probably never existed Catholics made the story about him up. So that they too would have a Catholic hero saint. To combat the protestant Jan Hus who they burned at the stake. Who all the Czech protestants wanted to revenge for. Hence the Hussite Protestant Wars
@@jabanan Just to clear something up, Jan Hus was around 100 years before the Reformation, and acts more as a proto-Protestant reformer. The first Hussite conflict stated only a few years after Hus was killed
@@djspacebard it is true that there is a 5 year gap. But still the Hussite war has a lot to do with Jan Hus. They even named themselves after him. Even though true be that there were two main groups the Radicals and the Non-Radical, so even they weren't that all united
@@djspacebard and yes he was a sort of pre-protestant but still very similar opinions to Martin Luther. I think it still classifies as protestant Christian, but yes at that time it was Catholic believer who listened to Jan Hus and probably thought that maybe they want change
If John had not been martyred, he probably would never have become a saint... But to shed some light on this - Charles IV could not have been thrown over Charles Bridge, because he founded the bridge in 1357 and at the time of his death (1378) only some of the piers of the bridge were built - it was not completed and opened until 1402. So even with St. John of Nepomuk it was quite a chase because he was killed in 1398 - but by then most of the bridge was already finished... And by the way - he was tortured at the behest of Charles' son King Wenceslas IV, but not because to force him to divulge the confessional secrets of the King's wife (as the Church subsequently invented), but because the King had a dispute with the Archbishop and John was the Archbishop's confidant. John was canonized quite late (in 1715) because the Catholic Church was trying to suppress Protestantism in the Bohemian lands and so every prelate killed was fit to be a saint...
It will always be Beaver Island to me 😂 We had a Wonderfull time in Prague, I laughed so much watching your take on my video, Thanks for the education.
You left a lasting legacy, I'm pretty sure I will never call it anything else from now on ;).
Your english is incredibly funny for me as a Czech! Nice video!
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Laughing in Canadian.
We would be seriously disappointed with "Beaver" Island.
@@CraftAero like yeah, this is the mullet of beavers. Party in the front and nothing in the back. Haha
Those are definitely Nutrias. When I worked at a pet register in Germany, sometimes people called to report a nutria found. They thought it was an escaped pet, because it was so trusting and friendly.
I would have liked to know what the nutria was thinking when someone took them home with them to try to find the owner 😂
... and they are hunted in Germany and there is a hunter/butcher who makes canned goulash out of them.
@@ssebb2020 They're an invasive species and have no real natural enemies, even in Prague they've become a problem to local wildlife. So yes, it's not really surprising that they're hunted here in Germany.
Exactly - muscrat is 3 times smaller then nutria and has a flat tail shorter then herself while nutria has orange teeth and round shaped tail that can be longer then nutria's body. 😉
In Dutch a Nutria is called a Beverrat. Litterally translation is Beaver Rat
It’s a nutria. They were imported from South America to be used for food, etc. a quick google search turns it up. I joke to the kid that loves to feed them they are delicious!!
Good thing that you keep the old Czech tradition of having a great sense of humour and the ability to laugh at tragedy. How else could we survive in the middle of Europe?
Bro, normaly i skip the VPN commercials, but you did a great job merging the commercial perfectly into the video. Well done.
It's amazing how Janek can be so blunt yet respectful at the same time, that's quite a skill czechs have!
Love it
Yeah we're really good at complaining! :D
@@amunak_ well, not better then english pensionres. They are master class at complaining :D
@@jirihoralek2201 I would challenge your English pensioners with Czech pensioners, but they know no English, so they can torture just us.
@@amunak_ everyday I see how similiar czechs are to us germans
I'm even more shocked how badly these "travel bloggers" get so much wrong and are so uninformed about things that they're technically "educating" others about.
You have made my last two and a half days in Prague so much fun! Had several 😂 local beer, Czech food (pork knuckle, beef in cream gravy with currents and dumpling, goulash with dumplings) at several restaurants, no chimney cakes but yes to Kolasch. Easy city to navigate so lots of walking to allow for more beer. Okay, the show at the clock is short but to see all the functions of the clock and take time to study the. - awesome. Thanks for your help planning this trip and I look forward to returning.
That's the spirit! Walking allows you to drink more beer! You definitelly had the true Czech experience! 😁
My nephew will be heading to Prague(Praha) soon, told him to watch and subscribe to your channel.
I couldn’t stop laughing at your commentary on these clips..
When we travel I try to be as respectful and learn the facts before ever making assumptions.
Can’t wait to visit Prague again, this channel has surely made me aware of all the places we missed..
Bohemia, it's not just Prague. We have a lot of historical cities. Olomouc is the second oldest city after Prague.
I went back to Prague in 2017 having lived there for 3 years from 2003 to 2006, and the trdelník was a complete novelty to me. I kept asking myself if I was suffering from amnesia because I had no memory of it. I was very confused at how they were calling it an old Prague speciality when I had never seen it before. I actually tried one for the complete novelty of it, & it was like eating sugar-encrusted cardboard.
That's a Capitalism for you. If someone can convince somebody to buy a little something, others will start their copycat stores and in few years it will be "traditional for centuries".
I saw the honest guide videos before I went there. Was afraid to even look at them. 😂
I'd say that's roughly when they started to emerge, around 2003-2006. At least from what I remember. Me and my friends would sometimes get them and I thought they were delicious, but they were much more simple, just the leavened dough, when still hot, put into cinnamon sugar. They were made fresh. Now it seems they often either sit there or are not baked enough, but idk, didn't eat one in couple years here in Prague :)
I'm a Czech woman and I remember EXACTLY when the trdelník all of a sudden appeared in Czech Republic. I was still at High school (so about 20 years ago) and in summer I was searching for a job to make some extra money. The job I found was to sell this total novelty called 'trdelnik' at different spots in my little hometown in the east of Czech Republic... I remember these trdelníks tasting like heaven. Then many years later I bought one of those in Prague and was totally disappointed by the taste. It was NOTHING like the trdelniky I was selling 20 years ago.... It's definitely better to opt for the true Czech dessert, which are all these koláce, or laskonky, or marokánky or vetrniky or indiánky. They are so delicious and 100% Czech. HONEST GUIDE also made a video about those.
You're not wrong about the nutria. I looked it up because I thought they were muskrats, too but they're different again. Closer to muskrats though. BTW, I work in a touristy area in my city and the Lime scooters are everywhere. I will never again be able to look at them and not think of the phrase "I hate them worse than diarrhea."
And also brought to Europe from America, this time (for nutria) the South one.
Some people call nutria "swamp beaver". Doesn't make it a real beaver though =)
Czechs should spread funny stories to the tourists and see how far they spread. For example Charles was thrown off the bridge on to the island and eaten by beavers for eating trdelnik.
That's easy. Just put up a bunch of statues and plaques in honor of the great Jara Cimrman! ;D
At this point I am sure these stories would write themselves...
Well, it isn't the least credible story I've heard on the internet
Agreed. 🤣
I've never heard about nutrias on the Shooters island. Yet it comes up in 2 tourist videos. I learn something new every day.
I’ve seen many of your videos, as an American, but former resident of Prague, who comes back to visit frequently, I’ve really enjoyed watching your videos over the past three years. So informative and also so entertaining! Please keep it up.
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I'm a Czech and even I made a list for myself of go-to Prague restaurants and places based on the HONEST GUIDE videos.
I’m with you on the scooters! I live in a tourist city in Poland. People leave those scooters laying on the ground all over the place, often blocking sidewalks. It is like toddlers use them, not responsible adults who would leave them upright and out of the way. They are an eyesore to me. I loathe them!
*greatings from slovakia, i still dont understand why people dont try classic traditional czech kolace they so tasty ...*
and obviously more on budget than trdelnik:o)
Because Trdelník is everywhere unfortunately...
because they are of the tourist routes but resently Kolacherie open at Celetná 27
They're definitely nutria 😊 We have them here in Oregon, USA too. (I give different names to wild animals, and I call the nutria "George")
Heyy I do the same. For example all robins are Bob and all squirrels are Charlie :D
I also heard the term "Water rats"
Whenever Oregon State is playing, I like to shout, "Go Nutes!"
muskrats, not nutria.
@@OperationBaboon , muskrats have a tail that's flat on the sides and scaley, nutria have round, hairy tails. These are nutria, as stated in the video.
In Belgium, these nutria, known as Beaver Rat. They are actually from South America and are aquatic rodents. They are exotics that have found habitat here in Europe.
Same in German - they are called Biberratte here
I think the important messeage here is to explore (and perhaps understand) how tourists percive your city. It goes for not only Prague.
Still good fun!
The picture at 9:28 is clearly a Nutria, by the thick white "beard" hairs and the teeth. Muskrats (the name presumably originally derived either from an Algonquian word for "it is red" or the Abenaki word mòskwas and no rat at all) are also a bit smaller, have a smaller snout, and their tail looks rather oval. Nutrias come originally from South America, but were introduced to Europe by fur farms (where they sometimes escaped), starting in France and Germany. Muskrats (also called Bisam in some countries) are originally from North America; in 1905 Prince Joseph Colloredo-Mansfeld released some near Stará Huť in Czechia. In 1929 some hundreds were released in northern Russia and Sibiria; in 1930 about 500 escaped from a breeding facility in France.
When you're around the region, you definately have to try lángos. I'm from Hungary, and it is a quite popular street food over here as well, but that's not pizza for sure.
It's great with beer
I would say medovnik is quite traditional or at least definitely not just a tourist thing... It may be not originally from Czechia but it's here for quite a long time and locals eat it
The first time I came to Prague was for a Swing Dance event, and we were very lucky to be guided around town by Prague natives, who gave us an impression of the town that was quite different from the usual tourist’s view. Thanks again for that!
You do swing dance? I love that so much 😍 and funny, the first time I learned about it was on my visit to Prague. 😄
I wouldn't say there are a lot of free museums in Prague. The military museum is the only one that comes to mind. The National Museum, the National Gallery, the City of Prague Gallery, the Kampa Museum, etc. all cost money except for a few times a year...
For students some museums are free, like the national gallery
Infant of Prague museum is free
Not museums per se, but there are always a bunch of free exhibitions going on in Prague
As an Englishman living in the neighbouring country of Slovakia where we also have Langos. The fried pizza thing made me laugh. Also I am fully aware the S at the end of the word should have the little v above I just couldn't get it to work
Feel free to borrow mine: š
welcome in Slovakia :) enjoy it
Lángos is actually Hungarian spelling. 'S' is in Hungarian pronounced as 'sh' in English or 'š' in many Slavic languages, while 'sz' is pronounced like 's' in most other languages.
If you hold down s on your English keyboard, it’ll show the various accented letters
@@9wowable yeah I tried that and the option didn't appear I only this ß I need to download the slovak keyboard
Near From Home says hi from minute 12:51 :D
You had our hearts pounding throughout the whole video.
According to Wikipedia (I know, that can easily be wrong, but these seem right), Beaver names for Nutria:
- Dutch, it is known as beverrat (beaver rat).
- German, is known as Nutria, Biberratte (beaver rat), or Sumpfbiber (swamp beaver).
- Italy, it is also called castorino ("little beaver"), .
- In Swedish, the animal is known as sumpbäver (marsh/swamp beaver).
"Yes" Its a Beaver😂 I love all these comments to me they will always be Beavers, Thanks for the great information👍🏻👍🏻🛠
@@aaanton11 Beavers have flat tails.
How do we call someone who criticizes another person for being wrong, but the critic is totally wrong? ROFL
@@sebastianwei542He wasn't wrong kiddo.
tak to je skvělý :D od teď se na vás koukám tady a ne na českým kanále. Nevím proč ale občas přijde mi strašně vtipné jak mluvíš anglicky
His English is great!
na spoustu videí se dívám v češtině a pak angličtině. Líbí se mi ty rozdíly, jakým to podá nám a jakým cizincům 👍
@@Wlk91 mě taky
Thanks! We gonna visit Prague in one month!
I feel like we could do that with a lot of cities. Most tourists vloggers tend to copy/paste what other tourist do.
This video is proof of why education is so important.
usually misinformation is unintentional, so getting to get the real information is what everyone should strive for, especially these travel vloggers.
The only reason I am considering visiting Progue in the future is because of your videos!!❤
One thing I hate in every flippin tourist video: "The castle is a thousand years old" or "The castle was built in the 9th century". And it's fairly obvious most of them actually think all of it was built back then. Kinda funny and sad at the same time.
I also love when someone calls the spires or the front facade of St. Vitus' "medieval". :-)
Yes, I can feel that. I have the same feelings when watching videos about Berlin where I live. That’s exactly why your videos are so valuable and wonderful!
I remeber visiting the museum of communism with my (Australian) ex.
She seemed very dissapointed that I wasn't more enthusiastic until I reminded her that I lived through this.
I have to admit I did feel a bit of nostalgia upon seeing an old pioneer uniform but it was definitely fleeting.
I’d say medovník is as traditional as langos and guláš
And štrúdl
@@richbulena8847 well played sir, a tradition adopted from the unwanted masters perhaps
I'd take exception with guláš. Yes, gulyás is hungarian but that's a very different dish from the Czech one. The Czech version has been here for more than a century. I'd call that traditional.
You know what would be a great thing to do is to invite each one of these people to come and make a video with you. In their video with you, you go around showing them iconic (possibly unknown) places that would be great for them and their viewers to visit and then in your video with them, you follow them while they point out places that they would think about spending their money at and you point out to them why those places are bad (likely scams or tricking tourists.)
This dude is super nice to the point i wish i had a friend like him
What I as a youtuber got wrong about your city was apparently the different subtypes of modernised Tatra T3. I uploaded videos of b-roll footage of the Tatra T3M and the Tatra T3P, and was told that I'd got them the wrong way round.
Hah, that was a smooth transition to the sponsor. I was wondering where it was going, if you just wanted people to start calling the island Shark Island instead or just wanted people to start saying that it's surrounded by sharks and trying to spot sharks, but then the sponsor came through. Well done sir!
I'm going back to Prague for the 4th time next month - learned so much from your videos. Cannot wait.
I hope you enjoy the stay! 😊
Would be interesting to know why there is such a big Nutria population in Prague?
This might be a great topic for a video. I am also sure there is someone in Prague (maybe the zoology department of the university etc.) that would be able to tell this story.
Nutrias (not the same as muskrats) are no native animals to europe. They originate from south america. The muskrats are north american. But nowadays we have both in europe and are invasive neozoos and listed like that by the EU. From what I could find out in a quick search was that most of them were animals that escaped from fur farms and came to europe for their fur.
U Pavouka is absolutely fun to do once!
But more fun : The Brand Experience by Pilsener Urquell, it has been recently opened and is a cool way to visit the plzen brewery's history without a daytrip to plzen!
I stayed in Prague for a week a couple of years ago, just before the covid problem. Loved the city. Saw an opera by Mozart in the same theater Mozart premiered that opera, Don Giovanni . Great experience and very affordable. Prague seemed loaded with inexpensive and sometimes even free musical events.
Also want to mention Cafe de Paris as a restaurant I loved.
I LOVE this channel! We are flying to Germany again in November, and Prague is DEFINITELY on the list. I am ONLY using YOUR channel for ideas and information and thank you so much for all your help!
4:07 They also throw Lime Scooters off the bridge and into the water. You did a video about this Janek.
7:50 More like: Alexander Beaverton or Alexander Nutrington (Named after Nutria)
Those are most def nutrias, muskrats or ondatry as we say in Czech are like 3x smaller and have different tail
Growing up in a german forest, we once had an infestation with Nutria's, which our neighbour kept feeding and called them "beaveries". I've never actually seen nutria in any media, so that was quite a nice callback to my childhood.
Nutria in English are known as Coypu. The fact that Google translates nutria as otter explains why the guide on the boat trip we took kept referring to them as otters.
tbf wiki states that nutria and coypu are the same thing. Also, nutrias are kind of a new thing here, I only learned about them like 5 years ago. I think I heard they're an invasive species from South America. So a lot of Czechs have never heard about nutrias and call them beavers or otters in Czech as well. Obviously a guide on a boat trip in Prague should know better tho.
I am an American. My first time to Prague was in 1991. My husband and I fell in love with the city. That was before the hoards of tourists were there. Also before there was any hint of westernization, such as Starbucks, was there. It was so charming and authentic. I still love Prague. I have been there 6 times and for the last 10 years I have lived next door in Poland. I view Prague as my second home in Europe. But in my heart, I prefer the Prague of 1991.
I mean, the McDonald's and Starbucks in the city center can be ugly, and the tourists get on my nerves sometimes, but I definitely prefer the Prague of today. Everything is much cleaner and the buildings are in a much better state of repair.
@@Starkiller935 Yes, I very well remember the buildings of 1991. Buildings are cleaner. But the streets are more littered with trash. There are trade offs. We all have our preferences.
@@Sand1955 streets may have more litter in the city center but in residential areas it's definitely cleaner now.
@@Starkiller935 That’s nice for those who live there.
You're a kind person. You're able to correct people without humiliating them 🙏🏼
I love the way you support tourism’s and share information and I sought you on old video explaining to people on border to pay online and i watch even that i cant visit yr country because of visa and thank you from morocco u r such a nice guy and your friend also
Hi Janek 👋 Hi Honza
My husband discovered you last week. He was so impressed with your video that he asked me to watch it the minute I woke up! Once I was done I immediately subscribed. Because of your videos, he wants to visit your beautiful Prague! I’ve always wanted to visit but now he’s on board too! That’s a wonderful thing! We would love to meet you both when we visit and dinners on us! If your in town and available that is 😃 After watching your videos I just want to tell you to PLEASE stay safe!
So? Have you visited yet? :)
@@monikaj2889 Unfortunately not yet. In the bucket list and we will get to it for sure 👍🏻
The trdelnik actually originates from Slovakia, the city of Skalica and it is called Skalicky trdelnik. Slovak people actually do eat it, although it was more popular in the past, but we usually get it on special occasions like at fairs during the holidays etc.
Cracking up here about nutria; we have a LOT of them along the Gulf of Mexico Coast in the Southeastern United States (Texas to Florida). In fact, we have nutria rodeos because they are such an invasive species. The pelts are commonly used. Every day on my commute, I pass quite a few who didn't make it across the road and have had to dodge them myself before.
As a Canadian, it's funny to see people think those are beavers. Beavers have a long, flat tail, like a paddle.
ye its almost like their tails is their most distinctive feature, wide flat and hairless. and here we have something thin and hairy. defo a beaver
I like how you school these you tubers with the correct information but also agree with some things.
My favorite part of Prague is Sharknado Island where Karl IV was crowned
Well, medovník is already traditional, it's here for decades, but I saw trdelník for the first time in like 2012. 😀
I have no idea about the traditionality of the honey cake, but I see it as a “traditional” Czech cake and one of the things to eat as a tourist. Just like in England you’d want to eat carrot cake, cheesecake or Victoria sponge. But I will say that it’s hard to find the right way of it in cafes, it’s so easy to have it too dried and it spoils your experience. Also cafes are way too expensive, so when I’m in Prague and feeling like Medovnik, I buy it in a supermarket, either the whole thing or boxed up slice. Still cheaper than in a cafe and because it is wrapped, it will not be dry and hard.
Yes but it is not a czech cake. Try original kolac buchtle or chlebicek in Café.
Trdelník apparently is traditionally from Slovakia and related to Kürtőskalács or German Baumstriezel.
I love the irony of most museums being free but you have to pay for the Museum of Communism. xD
That's another inaccuracy - actually most museums in Prague R NOT free... :)
I had to google Nutria, in norwegian they are called sumpbever. directly translated to english it is called swamp beaver. Great video as always, keep it up :D
6:27 in the background a child is being attacked by a Nutria, just wanted to point that out :D
Absolutely love Prague. Spent one week in the city around 5 years ago.
A nutria is called beverrat in Dutch, which doesn't really need a translation. An actual beaver is bigger, more shy and has a very broad flat tail.
The coolest Starbucks I have seen is in Varna, Bulgaria on the Black Sea. When you enter the front door, you can look down through a glass section and see old Roman ruins that were found under the street.
Janek, you look so much like my cousin, it’s mind-boggling, right from the scruffy beard over the style and down to the smile. You have a brother by another mother!
The funniest one I saw was the guy who discovered the Kafka Museum, and kept wondering why there were pictures of Anne Frank there. He never did realize the portrait was of Kafka, though he KNEW he was at the Kafka Museum!
Thanks for being an Honest Guide
We would call Nutrias "Coypu" and it seems they are causing a problem in Prague and shouldn't be fed if possible. Oh, and "laughable" might not be the meaning you were looking for. In the UK this would indicate that you more or less have contempt for the thing, whereas I think you probably meant "made us laugh" - quite different! Love your videos by the way and thank you!
As an American, I do not know why anyone would think they are beavers. The tail looks nothing like a beaver tail.
Coming to Prague on Tuesday! So excited. Can’t wait to feed the beavers trdelnik. 😂😂😂
:D Enjoy your stay!
With pizza lángos 😂
I recommend the 'caprese' variant with mozzarella
I think I need to visit Praque again! 🎉
Nutria are smaller than a beaver but larger than a muskrat; unlike beavers or muskrats, however, it has a round, slightly haired tail. The forelegs are small compared with its body size. The forepaws, have five toes; four are clawed and the fifth is reduced in size.
You guys are not wrong about calling those animal "nutria". But neither are tourists calling them "beavers". Actually, the scientific classification of those animals is Myocastor coypus, which means that they are really closer to beavers and rodents in general (the word Myocastor means "mouse beaver".) Those animals are originally from South America and, apparently, Spanish conquerors just wrongly referred to them as "nutria" based on similarities in behavior to otters (otter in Spanish is "nutria"). Therefore, we just learnt different names for the same type of animal!
(Who the hell brought nutrias / beavers to Prague!?)
Cheers!
If I remember correctly it have something to do with wild and confusing '90s (era of biggest scams, most common bribing in government & healthcare, times of well-known oligarchs/mafians, biggest chaos in everything caused by constant changes in every aspect from lifestyle to law and government system).
There were fur farms where nutrias (and other fur animals) originally lived, but then our country changed laws (about lowering or ending dotations for big fur farms - l was child so I don't exactly know and internet doesn't help). But one thing I know for sure that owners of fur farms got "awesome" idea - why spend money to get ridden of their fur animals when they can secretly let that unwanted animals "run away" to wilderness. These people got away with it or they paid only low fine.
By the way, even before that change of law there were small population of nutrias in wilderness (since '60s-'70s) but nobody cared about it. These first nutrias probably escaped accidentally without help of humans.
Prague is a beautiful city and I loved my short time there, if I had anything to suggest it would be to just walk around and look at things. Try new stuff. I found some awesome cafes by just walking around. Walked around some nice little neighbourhoods and cute little parks and things just by going in a random direction and walking for a while. Great city, I want to go back there.
I was there three months ago. I'm going back too. My dad's parents were Moravian.
4:26 nutria is actually called sumpbäver in Swedish… which means swamp beaver.. maybe nutria is called similar things in other languages aswell🤷♂️
Holy crap! They still got those Lame Scooters in Prague?
13:10 I ate lots of fried cheese when I visited Prague. Everytime it tasted like Gouda, which has a distinct taste, different from Edam.
You can fry any type of cheese. I have seen fried gouda, camembert, mozzarella, blue cheese or even olomoucké tvarůžky (stinky cheese)
I think Janek was pretty inaccurate about this one :) While it's very common to use the cheapest cheese for "smažák" the better restaurants (and I don't mean any luxury ones, just a bit better ones) usually use at least gouda. Of course this kind of gouda would be an insult to the Dutch, but the thing is the cheese can't have too much fat content (more expensive cheese tend to have more fat % in them) because you are aiming for more stiff consistency rather than just cheese pouring out of the crust.
"I hate it more than diarrhea"... Thanks for one of the best episodes ever...
11:19 the frustration 😂😂😂😂
It's hilarious 😆
If I'm in Prague one day, I want to do a video of me eating trdelnik just to trigger Janek, hahah. Love your content, guys!
You daredevil 😂
Love this, I was in Prague a few weeks ago for 24 hours and dis a video. From a running perspective so a bit different, I will be back it’s beautiful
This was great! I laughed my head off + especially enjoyed your reactions. 😊
I got recommended your last border crossing video, then went here..
This is amazing marketing for your city and country. Suddenly it's on my list, and I bet I'll find good tips in the rest of your videos!
Here in Scotland tourists think the wild Haggis are beavers too ;)
Youre the only guide I watch
The dutch name for a nutria is beverrat (beaver rat). so they aren't 100% wrong in calling them beavers but more like 99% wrong.
Best ad break I have seen for a long time 😂
I had langos in Romania, such a great food. Sadly I didn't know they had them in Prague as well, otherwise I'd definitely have gotten one, or two, or more.
I'd highly recommend langos to anyone visiting, well, Central to Eastern Europe.
Hey. What would be the cake you woud consider the most traditional Czech speciality? I think I know more of savoury things than desserts. My foundest name memories is utopenec, I had to try it just for the name, and bramborak which always made me think of Rumburak. (Yes I did grew up on Arabella). Funny thing I remember eating one of the best pizzas in my life in Prague (real one it was an italian place, with a traditional oven you could watch them taking out the pizzas and lasagnas)
koláč, větrnik are top for me, bramborak is delicious
@@theoteddy9665 Completely agree! Koláč is the most traditional, větrník the yummiest.
If you ever find yourself in a Czech sweet shop, I'd also recommend a "likérová špička" - my international colleagues found them hilarious when they first saw and tasted them. It's a very Czech experience!
There are tons of great pastry. Try buchty, buchtičky se šodó, kremrole, štrůdl, šátečky or rakvičky 🙂 also dumplings can be sweet and filled with all sorts of fruits and you can either eat them with sugar and cinammon butter or gingerbread or cacao powder or other types of toppings
In Ostrava just outside the Nova Karolina mall, there is a thriving trdelník stand. We are not a tourist town, so it seems that at least some of us have embraced this dessert. I still have not tried it, and I probably will not. I will get other desserts at one of the bakeries as I stroll through our city centre instead.
Went to Prague when I was doing a quarter of college in Dresden. It was a long time ago, before Starbucks had traveled outside the US. Our TA was from there so he took us everywhere to go and eat. I never saw those pastry things but knowing they are made for tourists wouldn’t stop me from eating them now. I never saw Beaver Island either. I did however eat lung roast because we let our TA order for us in a restaurant with no English menus and google translate didn’t exist then.
at least medovník is popular amongst locals/czechs, unlike trdelnik which is a touristy thing
In Danish, a nutria is called a Sumpbæver= Swamp Beaver in english =)
honestly, thats the best surfshark promotion i saw till now..😁
We usually call the Nutria Coypu. They are an invasive species in UK too.
Janku, should make one video in Skalica. If you try real trdelník, where it is made, eaten with Devín wine under the St. George rotunda, you´ll see why people love that pastry.
Could you maybe create a video showcasing free toilets?
We spend 8 days in Prague at the start of the month and other than inside museums or other paid attractions, we found just ONE free toilet near the gardens below Prague castle. Most of the paid toilets cost 20ck which is pretty steep, and only accepted cash with no card.