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...
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.
Nutrias are quite tasty btw. Like a mix of poultry and freshwater fish. But smells so-so For those shocked or curious, here in some regions of Ukraine (primary in Dnipro valley of central Ukraine) we grow nutrias as a sort of delicacy food. You can even buy them skinned and processed in a regular supermarket (not in every supermarket though) PS No, they are definitely nutrias, not ondatras (muskrats)
These "beavers" are usually called coypu in the UK. Nutria and coypu are the same animal, Myocastor coypus by its scientific name. Nutria is the name used in North America, while coypu is the name used in most other parts of the world. The name coypu comes from a name used by the Araucanian Indians of Argentina and Chile. Nutria are also known by other names, including nutria-rat, South American beaver, Argentine beaver, and swamp beaver.
Don't worry, Prague is not alone! You should see the inaccuracies plastered all over UA-cam about my hometown of London, especially by our cousins across the Pond! 😉
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?
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'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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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!
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". :-)
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'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.
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 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...
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.
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
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.
Beavers have huge flat tails. I'd assume it's a big rat 🐀 lol but we have nutria here in US . Fashion shows in New Orleans 😅 with nutria furs . I don't wear fur myself , but people do .
Nutrias are actually invasive species in Czech Republic, most likely because they bred them here for their fur and some of them escaped, and since they don't have a predator, they breed like crazy
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!
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.
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).
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.
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!
Trdelnik prdelnik. When there are so bad Basics in History, why you Guys don‘t make a Video about it? Charles IV was Kaiser Karl of Holy Roman Empire of German Nation. There were a lot of very important throwouts in Prague (from Castle Window), some of them lead to the most devasting Wars in Germany and Bohemia, more than WWII. Prague/ Praha/ Prag has a very rich history of German, Jewish and Czech People in the City. For some times more German than Czech People lived in the City. The Culture Heritage and Great and also not so Great Common history is directly linked with Austria and Germany. Especially to the City of Nuremberg (they are official Partner Towns yet). King and Kaiser Charles moved often, via Charles Bridge, to near Nuremberg and vice versa. He used the famous Golden Road. The Border of New Bohemia was at that time only 3 km from Historic City Wall of Nuremberg. There is still an old Stone in nowadays Part of Nuremberg called Erlenstegen. Few km more there is also still a Vaceslav (Wenzel) Castle. There were also big fights next to Prague that decided German history. You can make dozens of Videos to show only a small overview of Pragues History. Happy to see more about that.
I can only see those people looking at the price in EUR and USD and thinking "you say that's not on budget? What are you smoking man?" :D :D Yeah. What's cheaper for you guys, may be quite expensive for us, and what's cheaper for us, you may call almost free of charge, or just for a penny :D
Think I went to that island a few years back but never heard about the beavers. Are they new? Do they still have all the peacocks (some white) in the Parliament/senate gardens?
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!
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!
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.
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!
Here in the Netherlands we would call them either Nutria's or the more common translation: beverrat (beaver rat). Also, how incredibly ironic how the Museum of Communism actually costs that much compared to other (free) museums.
Just checked to see what we call nutria here in Sweden and found out it's Sumpbäver, which translates to Wetlands Beaver in english. That is a weird name considering actual beavers lives in... wetlands. 🤔
Been to Prague several times now. Never made a video...we don't care for likes or need public approval. My wife and I stayed in the 'Dancing House' for a couple of nights. No better or worse than any other hotel. Like most hotels, they gave me a pot of milk for my tea (yeah...Brits and their tea). The rooftop bar was populated mostly by folk not staying at the hotel but only going up for the view and to get selfies (sigh). We didn't get Trdelnik (my wife calls it turtleneck). We can get that here in Bratislava. In point of fact, the last time we went was purely to go to TGI Friday for cocktails...and we enjoyed quite a few of them. Not exactly traditional tourist stuff but there is a lack of such a place in Slovakia. I expect we shall return again sometime soon...probably for cocktails.
Trdelnik… I will never eat it in Your country. After all Your videos from last couple of years as I am a subscriber I know that is nit Your tradition. It is similar to kebab in Poland where I live. You can find it everywhere… but about 40 years ago only it was known to people travelling abroad.
trdelník is not bad but in prague it is not good at all, i live next to german borders and here they don't put garbage on it, they just put cinnamon on it and it cost 50czk, btw we also have bunch of kebab shops but we actually love them, in my small town there was new kebab shop and i legit never had better kebab than that and the mega durum one cost the same as prague trdelník it's wild.
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.
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.
Those Nutriae are called "BeaverRat" in Dutch....my guess is the translated version in more than just my language could possibly containt the word "Beaver", so calling it a beaver isn't that far off in a way ;)
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.
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
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!
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!
Tourist feeding nutria is the most adorably weird thing I've ever seen. At least in Louisiana, yes, they're called nutria, and they're an invasive species partially responsible for the erosion of the coastal wetlands. So there's bounties put out on them, the government released cookbooks hoping people would hunt their numbers down, they're pretty much seen as evil overgrown rats in that region. So that was a trip to watch.
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...
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.
Nutrias are quite tasty btw. Like a mix of poultry and freshwater fish. But smells so-so
For those shocked or curious, here in some regions of Ukraine (primary in Dnipro valley of central Ukraine) we grow nutrias as a sort of delicacy food. You can even buy them skinned and processed in a regular supermarket (not in every supermarket though)
PS No, they are definitely nutrias, not ondatras (muskrats)
Are they nutricious?
These "beavers" are usually called coypu in the UK. Nutria and coypu are the same animal, Myocastor coypus by its scientific name. Nutria is the name used in North America, while coypu is the name used in most other parts of the world. The name coypu comes from a name used by the Araucanian Indians of Argentina and Chile. Nutria are also known by other names, including nutria-rat, South American beaver, Argentine beaver, and swamp beaver.
honestly, thats the best surfshark promotion i saw till now..😁
Is this a repost or did you talk about the pizza/langos video previously?
Don't worry, Prague is not alone! You should see the inaccuracies plastered all over UA-cam about my hometown of London, especially by our cousins across the Pond! 😉
Nice video! about the person who claimed charles the 4th was throw off the bridge, that was just british sarcasm.
0:40 I bet Tour Eiffel and Statue of Libery have the same architect / constructeur.
And they were both made in France!
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.
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.
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. 🤣
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.
*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.
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 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.
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
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!
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". :-)
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’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.
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 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
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!
I guess "we're on a budget" was probably true, they just forgot to say the amount 😆
Or it went out the window at the 1st interesting thing
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.
I've never heard about nutrias on the Shooters island. Yet it comes up in 2 tourist videos. I learn something new every day.
This video is proof of why education is so important.
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
Well, medovník is already traditional, it's here for decades, but I saw trdelník for the first time in like 2012. 😀
The only reason I am considering visiting Progue in the future is because of your videos!!❤
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
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.
Beavers have huge flat tails. I'd assume it's a big rat 🐀 lol but we have nutria here in US . Fashion shows in New Orleans 😅 with nutria furs . I don't wear fur myself , but people do .
Nutrias are actually invasive species in Czech Republic, most likely because they bred them here for their fur and some of them escaped, and since they don't have a predator, they breed like crazy
Nutria were originally brought to Europe for their fur as a cheaper version of the beaver's.
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 👍🏻
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.
Harry Small says Hi 😂
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.
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.
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
I feel like we could do that with a lot of cities. Most tourists vloggers tend to copy/paste what other tourist do.
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.
ooh i hate those fucking scooters too, they are just left all over the place :V
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 think I need to visit Praque again! 🎉
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 👍
@@jakubwolf1858 mě taky
When I heard "free beavers" I genuinely thought it was a euphemism. Was about to get excited.
They will give you expired Belarussian beavers.
Trdelnik prdelnik. When there are so bad Basics in History, why you Guys don‘t make a Video about it? Charles IV was Kaiser Karl of Holy Roman Empire of German Nation. There were a lot of very important throwouts in Prague (from Castle Window), some of them lead to the most devasting Wars in Germany and Bohemia, more than WWII. Prague/ Praha/ Prag has a very rich history of German, Jewish and Czech People in the City. For some times more German than Czech People lived in the City. The Culture Heritage and Great and also not so Great Common history is directly linked with Austria and Germany. Especially to the City of Nuremberg (they are official Partner Towns yet). King and Kaiser Charles moved often, via Charles Bridge, to near Nuremberg and vice versa. He used the famous Golden Road. The Border of New Bohemia was at that time only 3 km from Historic City Wall of Nuremberg. There is still an old Stone in nowadays Part of Nuremberg called Erlenstegen. Few km more there is also still a Vaceslav (Wenzel) Castle. There were also big fights next to Prague that decided German history. You can make dozens of Videos to show only a small overview of Pragues History. Happy to see more about that.
This dude is super nice to the point i wish i had a friend like him
I can only see those people looking at the price in EUR and USD and thinking "you say that's not on budget? What are you smoking man?" :D :D Yeah. What's cheaper for you guys, may be quite expensive for us, and what's cheaper for us, you may call almost free of charge, or just for a penny :D
Janek, I swear I first heard of medovník from an Honest Guide video about actual Czech desserts to get instead of trdelník. For shame! 😉
Think I went to that island a few years back but never heard about the beavers. Are they new?
Do they still have all the peacocks (some white) in the Parliament/senate gardens?
As a person from the south of Slovakia, traditional Czech Trdelník and calling Langoš a pizza are just too triggering for me 😅
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!
My favorite part of Prague is Sharknado Island where Karl IV was crowned
In Danish, a nutria is called a Sumpbæver= Swamp Beaver in english =)
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!
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.
Those are most def nutrias, muskrats or ondatry as we say in Czech are like 3x smaller and have different tail
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!
Beavers, you know, with their distinctive long skinny tails.
The fact that most of the museums are free except the communism museum makes this American very proud of his Czech cousins.
Yes, internet troll, I'm sure there is just an arbitrary reason why the museum isn't free, it's just a joke.
Here in the Netherlands we would call them either Nutria's or the more common translation: beverrat (beaver rat). Also, how incredibly ironic how the Museum of Communism actually costs that much compared to other (free) museums.
Just checked to see what we call nutria here in Sweden and found out it's Sumpbäver, which translates to Wetlands Beaver in english. That is a weird name considering actual beavers lives in... wetlands. 🤔
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
You start to remind me of Linus Tech Tips with these segways to sponsors haha
at least medovník is popular amongst locals/czechs, unlike trdelnik which is a touristy thing
"Were not in Switzerland" 😂
"I hate it more than diarrhea"... Thanks for one of the best episodes ever...
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! 😊
Americans... they think we come to visit them from EU ... by train.... why even to bother explaining ...
Been to Prague several times now. Never made a video...we don't care for likes or need public approval. My wife and I stayed in the 'Dancing House' for a couple of nights. No better or worse than any other hotel. Like most hotels, they gave me a pot of milk for my tea (yeah...Brits and their tea). The rooftop bar was populated mostly by folk not staying at the hotel but only going up for the view and to get selfies (sigh).
We didn't get Trdelnik (my wife calls it turtleneck). We can get that here in Bratislava. In point of fact, the last time we went was purely to go to TGI Friday for cocktails...and we enjoyed quite a few of them. Not exactly traditional tourist stuff but there is a lack of such a place in Slovakia.
I expect we shall return again sometime soon...probably for cocktails.
Trdelnik… I will never eat it in Your country. After all Your videos from last couple of years as I am a subscriber I know that is nit Your tradition. It is similar to kebab in Poland where I live. You can find it everywhere… but about 40 years ago only it was known to people travelling abroad.
trdelník is not bad but in prague it is not good at all, i live next to german borders and here they don't put garbage on it, they just put cinnamon on it and it cost 50czk, btw we also have bunch of kebab shops but we actually love them, in my small town there was new kebab shop and i legit never had better kebab than that and the mega durum one cost the same as prague trdelník it's wild.
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.
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.
@@SandraHof 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.
Those Nutriae are called "BeaverRat" in Dutch....my guess is the translated version in more than just my language could possibly containt the word "Beaver", so calling it a beaver isn't that far off in a way ;)
In czechia we called them by their name "Nutrie" or by their nickname "river rats"
Here in Scotland tourists think the wild Haggis are beavers too ;)
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 😂
This was great! I laughed my head off + especially enjoyed your reactions. 😊
as a canadian.. the beaver mistake they all make is hilarious to me xD
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.
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
I’m waiting to see what you think of Adam Something talking about Prague.
Thought he actually used to live in Prague, so he probably will have done his homework properly.
@@jdjphotographynl That’s why I suggested it.
لا إله إلا اللّه محمد رسول اللّه
Langos is ridiculous delicious
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!
The tredelnik place for the second couple (Alex) claims falsely to be kosher but in Hebrew gives itself away as the Hungarian Kariotush
Every person from Florida watching people feed and interact with the nutria must be furious
usually misinformation is unintentional, so getting to get the real information is what everyone should strive for, especially these travel vloggers.
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!
Amazing ❤️🇮🇩
I was never interested in Prague..... until I heard 'Free Beavers'.... Now I'm thinking about moving there.... permanently.
I learn toooo much from Your chanel, and I'm still learning about Prague after 6 years living here. But im already feel like Pražak! :D
Tourist feeding nutria is the most adorably weird thing I've ever seen. At least in Louisiana, yes, they're called nutria, and they're an invasive species partially responsible for the erosion of the coastal wetlands. So there's bounties put out on them, the government released cookbooks hoping people would hunt their numbers down, they're pretty much seen as evil overgrown rats in that region. So that was a trip to watch.
Basically like dogs then.