The Trip-Day 11

Well...here we find ourselves in Prague...finally, and for too short of a time indeed! (notice all the details on the buildings...I was just fascinated with all of the decoration! The first set of pictures all show buildings where the decorations are painted on)

We started out pretty early with guidebooks in hand...searching out the great resale places that were hidden in this beautiful city. We found one that I really liked, where I bought a lighter jacket than the one I shleped all the way over there! Yes...I brought my wonderful new waterproof down jacket with me...For no apparent reason, as the weather was actually nicer there than it was when I got back to Arizona! Go figure...Anywho, I bought a great lighter black jacket for myself, 2 wonderful vintage Czech slips and a little pile of wonderful square pillow cases made from vintage material...flowers and such! Can you imagine owning a business in a neighborhood where you can look out your windows and see this view????

Or you could get your own franchise for a Kentucky Fried Chicken or a McDonalds...Seriously, they are on almost every block, and if you can't find one easy...Then look up and around, for a sign telling you where one is (sad, I know) it would almost be worth it to be such an amazing setting...

I guess when the iron curtain fell, Kmart went in and bought one of their local department stores and was amazed because they had to "teach" the people there about merchandising (gasp) and the only way they could get people to shop was to offer really cheap potatoes in all the basements of the new stores that were cropping up...but not to worry...the people caught on, and eventually figured out that they were supposed to spend their weekends and free time shopping (I actually read that on a website...Sad that the western world introduce that isn't it?)

These are pictures of one of the main squares...

(the last picture on the left is Joan of Arc!)




There's also this really great Astronomical Clock in the square...Amazing, although, we never got to see all the little bishops dancing around or whatever it is that happens...But just looking at the clockwork and reading about it is really amazing! I mean, 1490...How amazing is that???

And to finish up this day, we went to a museum which was amazing....clocks and costumes, jewelry, advertising, porcelain, furniture...And a great view of the Jewish graveyard that we wanted to go to, but it was very expensive to get in, and we didn't have time for the whole tour...So we did not go! Buy the gravestones were set really close together...And were incredible to see from the window of the museum! Please, please look at these pictures to see what we saw! I guess there is a tradition that you wrap up a wish that you've written on a piece of paper around a coin and leave it on the gravestone of the rabbi who invented golems...and the wish will come true! So, I am sad that we did not get to do that! I guess there are all sorts of famous rabbis buired there!

We found a really great botanical shop with all organic products...soap and lotions...where we bought quite a bit of our souvenirs! AND we stopped to have some pastries (which are everywhere...and amazingly beautiful and tasty...yes, that is the word tiramisu printed on a piece of white chocolate!)