re: #240 Vicious Babushka

Just like that.

Also, on the flight from Moscow to Amsterdam, full-size bottles everywhere brought on board in the carryons.

In the Czech Republic, it’s not that radically different. It’s quite legal to drink in public here, and no one uses the brown bag approach either.

When I first came here back in 2001, it was during the summer, so it was warm. I thought, “I’ll get a cold beer” at the local convenience store. Took it up to the counter, paid my 12 Kč for it (about 62 cents for a half liter bottle) and was expecting the cashier to put it in a bag or something.

Instead, she opened it and said, “Nazdravi” - “To your health” - and out I walked with an open bottle of beer in my hand. No brown bag, nothing. I was thinking to myself, “Damn……I hope there’s no cops around” and of course, a beat cop turned the corner. He walked by me, doing nothing, so I thought I’d ask him. Most cops in Prague speak English, so I asked him if it was legal to walk down the street drinking a beer. “Of course!” he said. Then he figured out, “Ah….you must be from America”!