Trip log SE: Europe - Olomouc city and the night life

[Edit: After uploading the post, I realized this is more of a "Special Edition" of my log since it doesn't really include the travel descriptions haha. Nevertheless, enjoy!]

Hey guys! It's been a while since I updated the last post. I have been preoccupied with a lot of things and have been quite busy these days. I should be busy at the moment as well (lol) but I decided to update the blog some more or I'll never get to finish my trip log haha. So here we go!

Besides going on business trips and stuff, I mostly stayed in my room/office because the lab was literally in the building right next to where I stayed. I mostly ate at the faculty cafeteria or picked up simple stuff from a local market. I learned how to speak Czech because I  had to buy bus tickets, groceries, etc.. basically to survive haha.

Meal 1: Very fresh and steamy pasta made with tomato sauce and salami slices. Beer: Zlaty Bazant, a Slovak beer.

Kofola: a soda drink very popular in Czech. It tastes like Coke + Pocari Sweat. I got used to it pretty fast haha.

Meal 2: Bun with cheese and ham slice. A plum for a dessert. Beer: Radegast (Czech)

Meal 3: Meatball, small bun, a pickle, and mashed potatoes. Drinks: Kofola and Gambrinus (Czech)

Meal 4: Cream pasta, pickled peppers, salami sandwiches, and orange juice.

Meal 5: Chicken thigh, sauce, soup, dumplings (just breads, actually- but they're called dumplings because of the way they're made), and lemon drink.

Meal 6: Garlic soup and Czech-style fire roasted half chicken with potato dumplings and cabbage. This was my favorite menu in Czech by far, and all that meal only cost about $7USD. The restaurant is located at the top floor of a skyscraper in Olomouc, and I was quite fortunate to get a window seat. The window seats are popular date spots and always get reserved beforehand. Note: the tallest buildings in the town are all Catholic churches.

I was lucky to be considered as one of the guest faculties because of the research I have been doing. I was invited to a dinner with the head of the Cell Biology department and a guest Japanese professor followed by a nice cold mug of local-brewed beer. They were so delicious, but I thought it wouldn't be polite to be carrying around my camera to a dinner I got invited to with other professors. One thing I can say is that Czech people love their beer.

I was also lucky to be invited as one of the panel audiences for the students at Palacky University Honors Research presentations. Afterwards, a few students invited me over to their graduation party.

So here are a couple of pictures that I took while we had some great times talking in broken English and Czech:

The picture on the right is with the shot of absinthe the girls had ordered for me. It was also fun because the bartender there made me use my broken Czech to order my drinks.

Bar #3. We had even more beer and more conversations. Another department joined us and we had some interesting conversation in Czech + English + French. That doesn't mean I understood them- I understood like 20% of the conversation, but so did everyone else. The power of alcohol seemingly enabled us to be able to carry conversations with each other pretty decently.

We went to several different bars- and when we were done, the sun was already coming up and I was supposed to be in the laboratory in 4 hours.

This concludes the log #8 for now. Next up is my bus trip to the Holy Hill (Svatý kopeček). Stay tuned!