Finally in Prague!
Well, we made it! The flight(s) went without incident, other than not being able to sleep as much as we hoped, which is always how it seems to work. That, and ending up watching a pretty bad movie with Liv Tyler, J. Lo, and Ben Affleck. I find it hard to tune in-flight movies out, even if I don't put on the headphones. Terri seems to think it was called Jersey Girl, but I don't recall ever hearing about any movie being made by that name. I believe her, I just somehow missed this. Anyway, this has also caused me to spend more time than I expected to trying to figure out why Ben Affleck is famous, because he really isn't a very good actor.
We switched planes in Amsterdam at 6am, and made it to Prague by 10, which was a full half-hour early. We were too early to check into the hotel, but we dropped off our bags there, took care of getting our train reservations to Vienna for late tomorrow night, and began our belated adventures in Prague.
We checked out the Mucha Museum. I'll let Terri talk about that since Alphonse Mucha is one of her artist guys. Then we wandered our way up to old town square. Everything is very medieval here. That's actually not entirely true. There seems to be something left from every period of history, but it goes all the way back to medieval stuff. There's baroque stuff, Austrian-ish Imperial stuff, fin de siecle stuff, Soviet stuff, and new stuff (they've got a Frank Gehry building too-- it's like a global plague!)
There are hordes and hordes of tourists of all kinds here. And they all seemed to converge on old town square every hour to watch the famous Astronomical Clock chime: a skeleton rings a bell , a little window opens, and a little statue of each of the twelve apostles comes out and faces outward, and then the window closes and the large bell begins tolling. It is really cool. But the kinds of crowds it draws, you'd expect it only happened once a week or something.
Terri is clamouring to make an update; she rightly points out that she has yet to post anything, so I'll turn the keyboard over to her.
We switched planes in Amsterdam at 6am, and made it to Prague by 10, which was a full half-hour early. We were too early to check into the hotel, but we dropped off our bags there, took care of getting our train reservations to Vienna for late tomorrow night, and began our belated adventures in Prague.
We checked out the Mucha Museum. I'll let Terri talk about that since Alphonse Mucha is one of her artist guys. Then we wandered our way up to old town square. Everything is very medieval here. That's actually not entirely true. There seems to be something left from every period of history, but it goes all the way back to medieval stuff. There's baroque stuff, Austrian-ish Imperial stuff, fin de siecle stuff, Soviet stuff, and new stuff (they've got a Frank Gehry building too-- it's like a global plague!)
There are hordes and hordes of tourists of all kinds here. And they all seemed to converge on old town square every hour to watch the famous Astronomical Clock chime: a skeleton rings a bell , a little window opens, and a little statue of each of the twelve apostles comes out and faces outward, and then the window closes and the large bell begins tolling. It is really cool. But the kinds of crowds it draws, you'd expect it only happened once a week or something.
Terri is clamouring to make an update; she rightly points out that she has yet to post anything, so I'll turn the keyboard over to her.
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