I strongly dislike beer, but I was super excited to visit Pilsner Urquell. While on the bus ride over we learned that beer was consumed more than water when Pilsner Urquell was fist established. On the tour it was explained further that the quality of water was often low and dangerous, so beer was a popular substitute. The factory was established by the citizens of the town after they were dissatisfied with the quality of beer they had been receiving. With that being said I was not aware the process of making beer changes. I thought that once a company had a system, they stuck to it. I also did not know that one person makes the beer at Urquell. I found it so cool when they had pictures of all the brewers and how you can see just how old the company is by the pictures.
We also went to the museum of communism. When we first walked into the museum we were greeted with the words “dream, reality, nightmare” which was then shown throughout the tour. Petr our guide who lived during the time the iron curtain was in place explained if you or your family was not part of the communist party you could not go to college or have a higher-level job. Throughout the tour posters explained different forms of torture used to get false confessions out of people so they could throw them in jail.
After visiting the Communism Museum and Terezin memorial I have realized dark tourism is very popular. Learning about the bad parts of history gives a sense of fear as you are often standing in the place that historic event happened in.