Praha

Ok, I've totally overdone it with pictures here, but we are talking about Prague! You can't show Prague in just a few pictures. I left Daša today (so sad!) and rode the train to Prague to visit Bara. It was an absolutely crazy day. Snow one minute, sun the next. It made pictures chancy, and made the day an adventure.

We started (or at least my decent pictures started) at Orloj, or the Municipality Hall Tower.

It has a really neat astronomical clock that is pretty famousEvery hour it plays a song and puts on a show.

I loved this church, it's called Tynsky Church

all of these pictures were taken from Old Town Square

It's Easter, hence the bizarre tree

Prašna brana, or the gunpowder tower. We climbed to the top of this. it was a crazy narrow spiral staircase that made even me nervous. We were halfway up when we met someone coming down... back down we went, sigh
The view, through a break in the snow: another view of the Tinskey Church



From sun to snow, brrrr

Hradčany (Prague castle)
The Charles Bridge (Karlův most)
the bridge gate
Charles IV. (Karel IV, from around year 1348). this is a view that has made generations of Czech school children snigger

On the other side of old town, headed up to the castle
St. Nicolas Church (Kostel Sv. Mikuláše)
A close up view of the Rennaisance building detail. I still think it is strange.
Prague Castle with St. Vit´s Cathedral (Pražský hrad s Katedrálou Sv. Víta)Katedrálou Sv. Víta
Inside
I loved the stained glass

More around the castle. this area is now mostly the seat of the government.

We went down this path. It was pretty, but scary for me. My fancy hiking boots dont grip so well on wet cobblestone!

Vysehrad (Vyšehrad) is across town, and on top of a hill overlooking the city and the Vltava River. It has a cemetary that holds the remains of numerous famous people. And, it has a lovely view.

Romanic rotunda at Vysehrad

Vysehrad
The Vltava River, from the church