Before I get into the water/beer thing, I want to show you the town square, a view from the highest tower. Here's the sad story. There were lots of Germans who grew up in this town of Zatec, Czechoslovakia. They lived there as friends and neighbors of the Czechs all their lives. Right after WWII, German residents were forced to leave forever with just 30 lbs of their belongings. As the Germans were leaving their town over the bridges that day, the Czechs, as an act of revenge, slaughtered hundreds, if not thousands, of their German townspeople who were later found in mass graves. What is WRONG with this world??
Ok, so here is one of their reasons...The yellow building is the local synagogue that had been the worship center for Jews for hundreds of years before the war.
This is what it looked like inside (from a sketch).
This is what it looks like now, never repaired since the Germans set the inside on fire
and took all the Jews away.
Our wonderful tour guide, Lenka Fritschova (a Czech English teacher in Zatec), took us up a forbidden tower (Hytha style) to see this inscription (a heart with 2 names inside) inscribed there is 1811. Really, really old graffiti!
Now here's the beer part. This is hops that grows in the middle of town (sort of as a novelty). There is a "Temple of Hops & Beer" here in town. We didn't have time to visit that temple.
Oh well
However, we did go to dinner (ask us about the home made plum dumplings when we see you later) at Lenka's house in Postloprty. She lives across the street from a pub. She said to us, just go across the street with the pitcher and they will fill it up for you. They know my pitcher.
And, yes, it is half the price of bottled water!
That was easy.
After dinner we visited Lenka's (in black) husband and son at "War Camp". Yeah this is a little weird, and just to be clear, we are saluting no one in particular.
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