I love Prague.

After the bones it was off to the Hotel Archibald City when I have a reservation for the next 3 nights, as you have already seen, Jed has settled in and was looking forward to his soak in the bath. Leaving Jed to explore the room, and mini-bar I wandered out to have a look at the fair city of Prague.

The hotel looks very nice but is in, what appears, to be a sleazy part of the city, just around the corner are 2 strip joints, (I shan't tell Jed about them) However, once past the strip joints I was almost immediatly in Wenceslas Square, which by the way is an oblong and not a square.This is actually in the new town and has large department stores such as M & S, H & M, C & A and Debenhams, just like any major city in the UK then. Wend your way past these though and you soon find your way into the Old City, and this is a differant kettle of fish all together. Beautiful old buildings in tight streets, performers on every corner and market stalls everywhere.


The Town Hall square is something to see and is dominated by the Town Hall itself with its Astrominical Clock. This clock was ordered by the town fathers in the year 1490, and they were so pleased with it they had the clockmaker stricken blind so that he could not build another like it, nice people to deal with, not.

On the hour the crowds gather below the clock to see it go through its performance. On the hour a skeleton, representing Death, looks down at his time piece and pulls a cord that rings a bell, then in windows above the clock Christ and the apostles appear and a cock crows to announce the end of the proceedings. Then, from the top of the tower, a buglar sounds the time to the city. A real crown pleaser as there is normally a round of applause at the end.

As normal, if there is a tower, I go up it. In this case quite easy, a lift to the 3rd floor and then, believe it or not, no steps. This time there are sloping walkways going around the 4 sides of the tower, and although you still gain the height they are a lot easier than climbing flights of steps.

The picture above was taken from the top of the tower so you can get an image of the height.

This the Castle at Prague (again taken from the tower) and it is in the Guinness Book of Records as being the largest Castle in the world, theres a fact for you.

On the way down from the tower I came across this Japanese couple who were having their wedding photos taken , thats something you don't see every day.

This is the famous Charles Bridge that was built in the mid 14C and still going strong.

Although the photo does not show it, the bridge was packed. There are small stalls on either side of the bridge, and the bridge is lined with statues, it really is lovely.

I love Prague and would put it up there with Tallin as my favourites on this trip. The only down side of Prague is that it is packed, and I mean packed with visitors. However, it is a place that I would love to come to visit again and bring Chris with me.

Can you also note the blue sky, today, the weather was gorgeous.