Prague

After four full days in Prague I am still enjoying the romance and beauty of its cobblestone streets and its skyline of spires. The city is old, by American standards certainly, but also in comparison to the post-WWII restorations that dominated Berlin and Dresden. Neither of us had any inkling how beautiful it would be here, and we had an awe-filled stroll through the old town square our first night here.


Since then we've seen the sights (the guidebook's highlights were at the Prague Castle, on the Charles Bridge, and in St. Nicholas Church - mine have been the Old Town streets at night, the Castle Gardens, the art nouveau interior of the cathedral at Vysehrad, and beer halls).


We've sampled some authenic Czech cuisine and thuroughly enjoyed the pub scene. Behold svickova and knedliky:













Today we took a trip out of town to Kutna Hora, home to a 40,000 body ossuary. Bizarre doesn't even begin to describe ...



xoxo Jessie