December 5, 2005

It’s St. Nicholas Day tomorrow, so Jeff and I went to look at the Old Town Square to see the Mikuláš processions (you can read more about the tradition here). It was more fun than I expected. We got there a little after 5 p.m. and things were slowly getting going. The first groups of [...]  

Charles Bridge - Prague favorite bridge  

I went to PRAGUE! It was absolutely beautiful, although veryvery COLD (compared to Italy at least). My favorite part of the city was actually the architecture, there were so many beautiful churches and buildings - I really enjoyed the gothic and neo-gothic stuff (yes, I am a huge dork) i.e. churches with all these elaborate spires and external details. There were also tons of little Christmas markets set up in the various squares, which were fun to walk around ...  

Old town's view in Prague the year is 2005  

The day after, I headed out to Prague while Nick continued in Wroclaw (still in Poland) because he had already been to Prague 4 years ago. prague is another one of these cities that have been saved from bombing in the WWII so the architecture is absolutely out of this world with different colors and sculpture for each building. The first thing I noticed in Prague is the amount of tourists ...  

Saturday: Imagine a house full of furniture covered in sheets, windows open to the world (and to the weather), painters swarming about in overalls and Will at work. Caroline seems unperturbed by the chaos and is discussing her favorite baby doll with the painters, trying to eat a baguette and carry three...