The Second Big Euro Trip (Prague, July 2017)

We finally made it to Prague! Turns out, we visited Prague in the Czech Republic twice, once in July 2017 and again in 2018. In July 2017 we stayed for nearly a month. Part of our visit was living in a smelly studio acquired through AirBnB outside of Prague in a downtrodden neighborhood with drunken immigrants from Poland and Moldova lining the streets. The other part was living it up as a tourist seeing Old Town and New Town. In what follows you'll get the cool tourist part. Beautiful, beautiful city. Check out these pics.

The square in Old Town. We got out of the airport and walked into a downpour. When the rain stopped, we started taking pics. You go sort of agog in Prague--it's visually striking and downright powerful. Tourists flock to it. Here the weather has been bad (rainy), so the square is empty. Emptier.

Old Town at night. A typical night.

Night creatures.

From the lookout point at the Prague Castle at night. The Prague Castle sits atop a hill a few kilometers (actually, many, and we walked) from the city center and is accessible by car up a long road or you can hoof it. Anyway, this is Prague the city at night.

One of the churches in Prague Castle. I think St. Vitus Cathedral.

Old Town statue.

Fun.

Famous restaurant where someone I don't remember once worked. Perhaps the Czech writer and gadfly Jaroslav Hasek.

Part of Wenceslas Square, the historical open square in what is now New Town Prague. Wenceslas is famous for mass demonstrations and revolutions going back to the Bohemian King Charles IV in 1348 when he founded Prague. In 1969 a student, Jan Palach, set himself on fire in this square to protest the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia the following year. After the Soviet occupation of then Czecholslovakia, Wendeslas was the seat of many protests. It saw the Soviet talks roll through in the late 1960s. Check out the movie The Unbearable Lightness of Being for some real photage (and a great movie) that highlights the square.