Prague - Beautiful Prague

Deer Goulash with Bread Dumplings

Jen and I on our walking tour - complete with headsets


St Wenceslas Square - Prague

The Astrological Clock - Old town Square - Prague

Charles Bridge - Prague

Our meet and greet went well - made the ultimate small talk with a few people in ear shot swapping names, country/town of origin and by what means of transport did we take to arrive in Prague = Shelley. Perth. Flew via Singapore. x 10.

Brekky was at the crack of dawn because we were all going on a guided walking tour with Jitka. We met some more of our fellow cruisers - some lovely and very chatty, some we're going to do our best to avoid - It's amazing how people think it's ok to talk to you about their various health issues in the first 2 mintues of meeting you over breakfast or how much they disliked the Czechs!!!! (this comes from an ex church minister - where's the love hey?)

So - hooked up to an earpiece - off we go into the Wenceslas Square, which is really a long rectangle if we're going to be mathematically correct about it. We made our way around to the Old Town Square where we watched the Astrological clock do it's thing on the hour. A little look at The Charles Bridge - which the tours guides don't take the punters over anymore, because they kept on losing people!!!??? So we looked at it from one end..... then did it ourselves later.

Our tour finished, as everything should - with coffee and cake then Jen and I headed off to do more touring of our own. A cruise on the Vltava River was lovely - our tour guide was a very talented, multi lingual chap, whose accent unfortuately for us, was so strong that we spent the cruise squinting to unerstand what he was saying and to boot, he said everything twice - once in his heavily accented English and again in his heavily accented Czech which actually sounded the same. An older English gentleman on the boat mentioned to our guide that the people at the back couldn't hear him and our relaxed guide looked at him, shrugged his shoulders and went on with his commentry, however from then on - all heavily accented languages were shouted!

We thought that we would try traditional Prague food - so we tred deer goulash with bread dumplings which was much tastier than it looked.

There was a musical concert of Bach, Schubert and Albinoni at St Nicholas' church which seemed like a typical Praguian thing to do and it was beautiful. An organ and a trumpet. If you closed your eyes you could visualise a scene from a movie where everything was in dramatic slow motion. The lady in front of me chose to work out her finances on her programme whilst her husband drank in the experience!

xxx