Prague Old Town Tour & History

The piling on of both interesting and sad history. I’ve learned so much and forgotten so much. Just like school really. We stood where the Germans invaded - I took a pic of his pic! Then the Astronomical Clock. Put together in 1410, it does a number of things besides telling the time! Calendar etc, Has moving characters - Google it! Where we stood in the square - the medieval buildings are beneath - 6 or 7 ft (not metres like the Tour Guide’s slip of the toungue) 2-4 metres below. Flooding was an ongoing problem so they’d raised the area, I think with earth from the moat around the Castle?
The upside down horse with King Wenceslas astride, is in the Lucerna Palace built by a wealthy entrepreneur Václav Havel who financed, designed and constructed it. Lucerna comes with a Mall, Cinema and an enormous Ball Room downstairs - a pillar-less one. They still hold Proms there. All the family go to the Proms! Big entertainment night but the school leavers at least have their after party. Havel’s grandson later became President. The horse - on that skinny rope, and suspended by not much - is polystyrene . Artist: David Černý.
There are Churches / Synagogues for Africa. Bldg upon beautiful bldg. and some - so incredibly old!
Bata shoes - it’s Czech! Head office is here. We had Kolaches which I had avoided because I thought they looked too bready but oh my - it’s special pastry - is thin under the filling and they are gorgeous. I had raspberry and custard. They like dense poppyseed fillings in cakes here. Czech Republic is a big producer of the Poppy Seeds. They’re still banned in Dubai I think. Come summer, Police are kept busy arresting the ‘campers’ in the poppyseed fields making očka which mimics heroin. That’s from my research! Tour Guide in the making.
I had a hearty trad lunch - Goulash - Beef option which was I believe corned beef. Was good and good price. The homemade lemonade delicious. Not so cheap / half as much as the Goulash! About $NZ25 all up.
Check out the pram. I’m sure Paris Hilton has this one. They had radical buggies! All sorts of radical baby stuff.
-Mmm, buggy couldn’t fit sorry. Limits on number of photos which is a good thing! Czytaj więcej