Prague

May 2025
  • Keith Eckersall
  • Jayne Eckersall
A short but fine adventure by Keith & Jayne Read more
  • Keith Eckersall
  • Jayne Eckersall

List of countries

  • Czech Republic Czech Republic
  • England England
Categories
None
  • 1.2kkilometers traveled
Means of transport
  • Flight-kilometers
  • Walking-kilometers
  • Hiking-kilometers
  • Bicycle-kilometers
  • Motorbike-kilometers
  • Tuk Tuk-kilometers
  • Car-kilometers
  • Train-kilometers
  • Bus-kilometers
  • Camper-kilometers
  • Caravan-kilometers
  • 4x4-kilometers
  • Swimming-kilometers
  • Paddling/Rowing-kilometers
  • Motorboat-kilometers
  • Sailing-kilometers
  • Houseboat-kilometers
  • Ferry-kilometers
  • Cruise ship-kilometers
  • Horse-kilometers
  • Skiing-kilometers
  • Hitchhiking-kilometers
  • Cable car-kilometers
  • Helicopter-kilometers
  • Barefoot-kilometers
  • 8footprints
  • 5days
  • 145photos
  • 0likes
  • Travel Day.

    May 15 in England ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C

    Taxi 🚕 booked for 09:45 to drive through chaotic Poulton-le-Fylde for the 10:31 train 🚆 to Manchester Airport. Everything went well, too well Taxi arrived on time drove through Poulton-le-Fylde no problem walked onto the platform and straight onto the train at 10:00, 30 minutes ahead of schedule.
    At the airport, bags checked and headed straight for Departures only to be refused entry and told to come back in 30 minutes. We eventually arrived at the 1903 Lounge, shortly 1:00 pm. for our 2 hours of refreshments 🍻🍾🥂🍷
    All too soon, it was time to make our way to our boarding gate. As usual, the front of the aircraft was last to board, but it wasn't long before our flight was ready for take off, probably just under an hour late. Some 1 hour and 40 minutes later, we are getting ready to disembark the aircraft, get our luggage, and within the hour we are in a taxi heading for Prague City centre about 30 mins away
    Arriving at the hotel, we checked and up to our rooms to quickly unpack before heading out for something to eat and a beer 🍺.
    Read more

  • A Morning of Exploring

    May 16 in Czech Republic ⋅ ☁️ 10 °C

    After breakfast, we set off to see what the city had for us. We walked along a predetermined route to take in as many sights as possible.
    Turning left outside the hotel and left again, we found our 1st landmark; the Powder Tower.
    Completed in 1475, the Powder Gate Tower or Powder Gate is a Gothic tower that formerly served as a gunpowder store. It is one of the original city gates and separates the Old Town from the New Town.
    After walking 🚶‍♀️ 🚶🚶‍♀️🚶underneath the huge gated archway we carried on down Celetna Street towards Staromestske Namesti and; established in 1338 the Old Town, with its unique astronomical clock — known as the Orloj — where, every hour between 8 am and 11 pm, the Twelve Apostles appear. We arrived just in time to see the Apostles appear and dissappear at the two windows above the clock. More than a little disappointed, we then made our way to join the crowds on the 15th Century Charles Bridge.
    Read more

  • A Liquid Lunch and Walk before Dinner

    May 16 in Czech Republic ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C

    Arriving on the other side of the Vitava River in Lesser Town, we decided against walking up the hill to Prague Castle and went for a liquid lunch as in a beer 🍺 and soup 🍲. Just a few yards from our empty bowls and glasses was the Lennon Wall. After the 1980 murder of John Lennon a mural of Lennon was painted by an unknown artist onto the wall and as more people expanded upon it, the wall slowly became a place for free expression of then communist Czechoslovakia.
    As cool Prague became decidedly cold Prague we headed back towards our hotel and the shopping 🛍 centre to buy warmer clothes, before heading out to the Ginger & Fred Restaurant at the top of the Dancing 💃 🕺 House for a lovely meal in celebration of Ian abd Christine's 70th birthdays 🎂 🥳 🎉
    Read more

  • Hop On .... Hop Off.....

    May 17 in Czech Republic ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C

    Dressed in warmer clothes and after a quick "brew" the cafe of the Smetana Hall; a famous and largest concert hall in Prague, we hopped on the Blue Hop On Hop Off Bus 🚌 Tour around Prague. Arriving at Prague Castle, we swapped buses and took the Red route bus tour before jumping off at U Bruskych Kasaren and walking across the Manesuv Must Bridge back into the old town. We walked towards the Quadrio Shopping Centre and the giant 10.6 metre high rotating head of Franz Kafka, (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) a novelist and writer from Prague who was Jewish, Austrian, and Czech and wrote in German. He is widely regarded as a major figure of 20th-century literature.Read more

  • Walking up an Appetite

    May 17 in Czech Republic ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C

    Walking back to the hotel, we came across more works of art and for friends Ian and Christine, a local delicacy, ice cream 🍦 chimneys. Later that evening, we walked back towards Charles Bridge to a lovely little restaurant 🍽 we had come across the previous day, and the food was well worth the day and a trip back in time.Read more

  • A Step Back in Time

    May 18 in Czech Republic ⋅ ☁️ 10 °C

    After breakfast and with less than an hour remaining on our Hop On Hop Off Bus Tour, we jumped on the next bus, getting off at the stop near the Dancing House. 1st point of interest was the Church of Saints Cyril and Methodius where in 1942, during World War II, the cathedral was the scene of a last stand made by SOE-trained Czech and Slovak agents involved in the assassination of SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich. SS-Brigadeführer Karl Fischer von Treuenfeld commanded the Waffen-SS forces that stormed the church on 18 June 1942. After a fierce gun battle, two of the Czechoslovaks were killed, and the rest committed suicide to avoid capture. There is a museum in the church crypt dedicated to them as national heroes.
    After a coffee in the Dancing House cafe and a quick saunter in the next street to see the extensive architecture we headed off to Wenceslas Square, one of the main city squares and where many historical events have occurred, a traditional setting for demonstrations, celebrations, and other public gatherings. At the top of the square is the National Museum; a sandstone building pittered with repaired bullet holes in from the 20th August 1968 failed uprising against Soviet led communism that resulted in a brutal invasion by East German, Polish and Bulgarian military that swiftly bringing any chances of reform to an end.
    Read more

  • I Spy 👁

    May 18 in Czech Republic ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C

    After lunch at the Hotel Jalta, Ian and I went on the Cold War Museum tour in a bunker within the foundations of the Hotel Jalta.
    In 1989 a fallout shelter was discovered under Jalta`s basement. It is spread over two floors with a capacity to accommodate 150 people. Intended to be used as a headquarters for the Warsaw Pact countries, it is believed that the Jalta hotel was purposefully built as a disguise to hide the bunker. The shelter was later used by the Secret Police to spy on hotel guests and foreign dignitaries. Now converted into a Cold War Museum.Read more

  • On The Way Home 🏡

    May 19 in Czech Republic ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C

    After breakfast, we checked out, leaving our bags behind the reception desk ready for our 1:00 pm taxi 🚕 back to the airport. Not wandering too far from the hotel, we came across one of the oldest brewery's in Prague. Soon enough, it was time to head back and onwards to the airport 🛫 for our flight home. Which all went extremely smoothly, and by 18:50 that evening we were on our train heading out of Manchester Airport bound for Poulton-le-Fylde.Read more