Prague Castle Complex
Prague Castle
St. Vitus Cathedral
Strahov Monastery
Schwarzenberg Palace - rented to the national art gallery for one Koruna a year, twenty years at a time
Hradcany Square
St. George Basilica
- facade was done in 1923 - rushed for the 1000 year anniversary
Archbishop Palace
Breathtaking Viewpoint - a little foggy, but kinda neat to see over the city
walked down stairs then down thunovska
Lesser Town Area
looked up Nerudova Street
St. Nicholas Church - mozart may have played there?
walked through to Tržiště where the US embassy is - security there since 9/11/2001 checking for bombs - the checkpoint is outside the Irish embassy. (cue IRA joke)
Infant Jesus of Prague
Knights of Malta - funky building, protectors of the wall?
Lennon´s Wall - pretty neat, legal to graffiti on
Lover’s bridge, with the water sprite waiting for his partner. They say you can put a lock on the bridge and throw the key in and your lover will stay? I’d rather just be not-shit. They clear the locks after a few months so that’s no guarantee.
Kampa Island - where they dumped all the debris when the town burned down turned into one of the most expensive places you can live - 5000 euro/m^2 currently
they have 5.5km of flood wall, between 2m and 6m tall tested every year
boat tour
Certovka Canal - didn’t actually see it - they just mentioned it as we went past on the boat tour
saw a bunch of pretty things I can’t possibly remember
The Prague Metronome, erected in 1991, on the plinth left vacant by the demolition in 1962 of an enormous monument to former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
Charles Bridge
longest open air art space in europe? isn’t that the berlin wall?
kids grabbing coins were neat
Old Town Area
Old Town Bridge Tower - yep, it was a bridge tower. Had some pretty things.
Clementinum - university/knowledge centre at the end of the bridge
Astronomical Clock Old Town Square
Tyn Church
Prague Cubism Powder Gate - saw it from a while away, a little annoyed I didn’t really get to see it.
Carolinum - didn’t see it
lunch
chicken broth soup dumplings and pork
Jewish Quarter
Old Jewish Cemetery
Old New Synagogue
Former Jewish Town Hall
Jewish Ceremonial Hall
Pinkas Synagogue
Maisel Synagogue
Spanish Synagogue
Paris Street
super expensive shopping
Franz Kafka House
not actually his house, but it's the spot
we were done
wandered a bit through the town towards the bridge to do some shopping, RMB got some wool beret’s for 399Kr each - they seem really nice quality and we found them later in the evening for nearly twice that!
found a place to have mulled wine (lovely and warm and tasty, even on a hot day) and trdelník - spit cake basically dough wrapped around a mould and cooked slowly on a spit over coals quite a neat way of cooking, even better when you fill it with ice cream and cover it in sugar
dinner - U Dvou Sester (TripAdvisor) - strange little place with jazz
me - Roasted homemade sausage - 135 Kč - 180g, mustard, horseradish, cabbage, onions - really tasty, rich smoky flavour
RMB had marinated camembert with spices and so much onion.
I had pork knuckle, which was lovely and rich and nicely cooked (Country-style roasted pork knuckle - 290 Kč - 650g - served with mustard and horseradish and chips) rmb had goulash and dumplings which was melt-in-your mouth with lovely flavours (Traditional czech angus beef goulash - 230 Kč - 200g, served with dumplings)
Normally I’m not much of a beer drinker, but I saw “Staropramen cool lemon” and figured for 55Kč it’d be worth a try. Wow, what a lovely brew. Refreshing and lemony with nary a hint of yeast. :) I could easily have drunk more than the two I had. Turns out it’s (at most) 2% ABV so I could have drunk quite a few :D
wandered around a bit and came home