Christmas eve and christmas

Merry Christmas everyone!!!!

Bit of a chill week this one, not too much happened. We went out for drinks to say goodbye to Ozge on thursday which ended up being quite an eventful night. We wanted to go to a bunch of bars and order as many weird drinks as we could, I had lots of strange euro spirits, a christmas tree pine needle flavoured beer, a negroni, a Cuba libre and some other cocktails I forgot the name of. At the end of the night we ended up at a club a few doors down from our apartment which we had never noticed before, it was filled with 30-40 year olds and was a pretty strange vibe but that was fine coz it meant we got to have a big, long last chat with Ozge.

We wanted to make pavlova and eggnog for Christmas so on Christmas eve we set out to buy all the ingredients. What we originally expected to be an hour long errand ended up taking most of the day because all the big shopping centres in prague are closed from Christmas eve to boxing day. This meant we had to search through a bunch of corner stores slowly collecting all the stuff we needed. Eventually, the search for fresh berries took us back to the old town Christmas markets, it was absolutely stunning, the lights and the atmosphere felt so festive and we had a great time soaking it all in, which was lucky coz there were no berries and wouldve walked all that way for nothing lol. On the way home we partook in a bit of shenanigans and then spent the rest of the night cooking. Overall the cooking was a bit of a nightmare, spencer never got a whisk so we had to mix the egg whites for almost two hours with a fork and then i got distracted while adding the spices to my eggnog which resulted in me adding way too many cloves and kinda ruining it :/

For Christmas day we opened presents and then went for a big lunch at the local pub. I had to pretend I wasn't a vegetarian for the day coz the pub didn't have great vege options so for mains we got a pork knuckle which came on a spit type thing, some ribs and some chicken wings. It was all super delicious and really really filling. The bar had such a nice cosy winter vibe and it felt very christmasy with all the lights and decorations, it was the perfect spot to have our Christmas lunch. We stayed for two hours enjoying mulled wines and grogs (hot rum tea I think) before going home to have a big nap. We just finished having the pavlova which was surprisingly good!Read more