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Apr. 4th, 2007 10:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lectrix_lectiI think we have about seventy kilometres worth of cable in the house, and I can't for the life of me find the cable for my camera... Oh, wait. Got it.
I don't seem to have taken as many photos as I usually do. This has something to do with us only purchasing one photopass for Prague castle, where we spent two days, and with me just pottering about with my jaw dragging behind me. Prague is beyond beautiful.
We stayed in a hotel in Malá Strana, the Lesser Town, which was recognised as a town in 1257. Naturally, there was so much to see there that we really didn't have to leave that part of the city (but yes, we managed to get ourselves across the Vltava a few times). Pretty, pretty, ancient buildings chin to chin with more modern ones, intricate paving, so very good restaurants and a really odd (but good) one in a 17th century chapel, Prague Castle, the Petrín Hill, statues and gargoyles and spires, an ultra lovely hipster café with a marvellous Sunday brunch offer... Can you tell I haven't quite managed to sort through all the impressions?
Some things very worth remembering:
Hot chocolate at the restaurant on the Petrín Hill, with one hell of a view.
Seeing the Charles Bridge from another bridge (crossing the Charles Bridge was nothing but annoying and awful, but it's quite a sight at a distance)
The insanely cold and marvellously interesting Prague castle history exhibition (in the Gothic part of the Royal Castle, partly below ground and not heated).
Discovering that in order to visit the old Jewish cemetery (rabbi Löw's grave!) you had to pay way too much money and get admission to a shitload of not-so-interesting synagogues. We passed on that.
The food at a restaurant that shall remain nameless, because we couldn't find its name on the facade or on the menu.
The Mucha Museum. Small but sweet.
The large group of people with dark glasses and white canes sightseeing, heh.
Orbis Pictus.
And and and...
I don't seem to have taken as many photos as I usually do. This has something to do with us only purchasing one photopass for Prague castle, where we spent two days, and with me just pottering about with my jaw dragging behind me. Prague is beyond beautiful.
We stayed in a hotel in Malá Strana, the Lesser Town, which was recognised as a town in 1257. Naturally, there was so much to see there that we really didn't have to leave that part of the city (but yes, we managed to get ourselves across the Vltava a few times). Pretty, pretty, ancient buildings chin to chin with more modern ones, intricate paving, so very good restaurants and a really odd (but good) one in a 17th century chapel, Prague Castle, the Petrín Hill, statues and gargoyles and spires, an ultra lovely hipster café with a marvellous Sunday brunch offer... Can you tell I haven't quite managed to sort through all the impressions?
Some things very worth remembering:
Hot chocolate at the restaurant on the Petrín Hill, with one hell of a view.
Seeing the Charles Bridge from another bridge (crossing the Charles Bridge was nothing but annoying and awful, but it's quite a sight at a distance)
The insanely cold and marvellously interesting Prague castle history exhibition (in the Gothic part of the Royal Castle, partly below ground and not heated).
Discovering that in order to visit the old Jewish cemetery (rabbi Löw's grave!) you had to pay way too much money and get admission to a shitload of not-so-interesting synagogues. We passed on that.
The food at a restaurant that shall remain nameless, because we couldn't find its name on the facade or on the menu.
The Mucha Museum. Small but sweet.
The large group of people with dark glasses and white canes sightseeing, heh.
Orbis Pictus.
And and and...
