Czech Grocery Shopping

I am exhausted. It has been a non-stop past five days since we arrived in Prague! Exploring the city by foot for hours on end, eating fried cheese sandwiches and sausages for every meal, drinking mulled wine and lots of Pilsner beer throughout the day and into the wee hours of the morning, all while trying to get to know everyone in our TEFL course has officially wiped me out.

I wanted to do a blog post on every experience that I have had while here but it has been difficult to find a moment to even sit down and rest! Definitely something that I am not used to!

Grocery shopping was the hardest thing that we have had to do since being here. It was challenging and frustrating trying to figure out all the different Czech food labels. We had the hardest time in the meat section. Apparently they don't have ground beef in the Czech Republic, but they have ground pork! Stu pointed out that all the beer was sold warm; not refigerated. In the beer aisle, there was a small freezer that kept frozen foods (pizza, ice cream, vegetables, and fish.)

To get a shopping cart, a 5 or 10 crown coin must be inserted into a slot on the handle of the shopping cart to unlock it from the others. When you're finished with it, a key from another shopping cart goes into the slot to push out your coin and locks the carts together.

They also do not have plastic bags; you have to bring your own reusable grocery bags and quickly bag your own groceries as the cashier is ringing up your items. Then you have to carry everything  by foot to where you live.

After we did all of that we went to the "Walmart of Prague", Tesco, by bus to find items like towels and kitchen supplies that we needed. We took a bus there, about ten minutes, and passed row after row of massive communist-era apartment buildings. I will get a pic soon