December 10, 2005

On Monday 5th Dec we arrived in Prague - what an amazing city. It is just beautiful. It was everything people said it would be and more. There are just so many amazing buildings. We arrived in the evening and all the key buildings were lit and the place just looked like magic. I had arranged an appartment for us, and it looked directly out on the river, and was across the bridge from the well known modern 'Dancing Building'. We tried lots of Czech food, visited the markets, rode the trams, visited the Castle - St Vitus Cathedral, Franz Kafka's house on the Golden Lane, saw the old town ...  

Today I wandered through the old Jewish quarter of Prague. There's a lot of history here. The first jews came to Prague just over 1,000 years ago. There are a couple of synagogues which have a history of the Jewish people in Prague and the Czech country. This is Maisel Synagogue, which contains a lot of historical documents and ...  

I still need to get over to Prague Castle. I’m a bad tourist. But in my defense, I knew I’d be here for four months, so I spaced out my tourism. This past week has been filled with school work. Of the End of the Semester variety. I still have a few more papers to do and then an actual exam in Czech Music. On Wednesday, Jeff and I made the executive decision to make it an evening of differences. Mainly, the difference between TGI Fridays and the National Theatre’s Opera ...