Tuesday, October 26, 2004
beautiful prague
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 13:18:45 -0700 (PDT)
We are in prague now, we have been for three days. The first day we did two
self guided walking tours. we saw the old town and the new town, including
the astrological clock/glockenspiel and its show that goes every hour, we
also saw several churches, the powder tower - which used to be part of the
town wall, and the municipal building, and the old opera house there don
giovanni premeired. then we went across the charles bridge and saw all the
statues on it, and the church with the wax figure of christ, which is
supposedly an important catholic relic - we both thought it was
unimpressive. The next day we did a guided tour of the old jewish ghetto,
unfortunately there isnt really anything left becuase it was destroyed for
sanitation reasons years ago. but there are still a few synagogues standing,
including the one that is the oldest in europe. apparently prague was spared
a lot of the ravages of war becuase hitler wanted it to be the second seat
of nazi power (after berlin) and so it
should stay the way it is, also he saved many jewish religious relics for
his "musuem of an extinct race" that he planned. That is disturbing but
lucky for us, becuase there is so much left here that we can see. Tommorrow
we are going to go in the old synagogues and see the relics that were saved.
today we pretty much just walked around the market areas and shopped a
little. a big thing to do in prague is to just hang out, try to get lost and
see the "undiscovered" parts of the city, becuase it is all beautiful!!! the
best part of this city, is the city itself! the buildings are wonderful and
the streets are winding and quaint.
Today we had dinner in a restaurant that is housed in a building that used
to be a kinghts of malta charity. we sat in the basement, that was so old
and quaint, with the sloping walls, that we had to take a picture.
Meg and Seth
We are in prague now, we have been for three days. The first day we did two
self guided walking tours. we saw the old town and the new town, including
the astrological clock/glockenspiel and its show that goes every hour, we
also saw several churches, the powder tower - which used to be part of the
town wall, and the municipal building, and the old opera house there don
giovanni premeired. then we went across the charles bridge and saw all the
statues on it, and the church with the wax figure of christ, which is
supposedly an important catholic relic - we both thought it was
unimpressive. The next day we did a guided tour of the old jewish ghetto,
unfortunately there isnt really anything left becuase it was destroyed for
sanitation reasons years ago. but there are still a few synagogues standing,
including the one that is the oldest in europe. apparently prague was spared
a lot of the ravages of war becuase hitler wanted it to be the second seat
of nazi power (after berlin) and so it
should stay the way it is, also he saved many jewish religious relics for
his "musuem of an extinct race" that he planned. That is disturbing but
lucky for us, becuase there is so much left here that we can see. Tommorrow
we are going to go in the old synagogues and see the relics that were saved.
today we pretty much just walked around the market areas and shopped a
little. a big thing to do in prague is to just hang out, try to get lost and
see the "undiscovered" parts of the city, becuase it is all beautiful!!! the
best part of this city, is the city itself! the buildings are wonderful and
the streets are winding and quaint.
Today we had dinner in a restaurant that is housed in a building that used
to be a kinghts of malta charity. we sat in the basement, that was so old
and quaint, with the sloping walls, that we had to take a picture.
Meg and Seth
