My children Waldo, Natacha and her husband Ralph, their son Michael, Jost and I flew from Brussels to Prague and rented a car to visit my Aunt Hana (92) and my cousins in Libereč . The usual visit with joy, food an drinks.
Libereč a very old city, was once home to a thriving textile industry and hence nicknamed the “Manchester of Bohemia“.
in the 1930s, Liberec became the unofficial capital of Germans in Czechoslovakia. In 1938
it became the capital of the Sudetengau region. Most of the city’s Jewish and Czech population fled to the rest of Czechoslovakia or were expelled .
After World War II the town again became a part of Czechoslovakia and nearly all of the city’s German population was expelled
Anči had a real fun translating amidst this polyglot family : Czceh, German, French, English. Weater was typically cold for this Christmas time of the year.
Time to bring out the famous BECHROCKA after many other tastings.
Becherovka (Czech pronunciation: [ˈbɛxɛˌrofka] is a herbal bitters, often drunk as a digestive aid, that is produced in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic by the Jan Becher company. [ It is made from a secret recipe based on more than twenty types of herbs and spices and contains no chemical ingredients.
Its alcohol content is 38% ABV (76 proof)
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