An evolving city Prague

 We spent 4 nights in Prague, did 2 walking tours, and 2 musical shows.  Prague is marvelous from the moment you arrived from the underground, carry a 20 kg suitcase  (a nice Czech helped me up the last set of stairs, which describes Czech people well) and throughputs our stay wandering streets and taking the trams.  We wandered around a found some modern sculptures and groceries our first day my favorite was Kafka bust, I’m quite sure his mind worked similarly. 

 



The architecture was a lot of gothic, baroque, and Soviet eras.   








We where lucky to wander onto the Charles bridge early Friday morning as the crowds over the spweekend where emense latter in the day. Our guide Mike was an interesting fellow who retold stories of his dad being in the resistance including being active in the Prague spring uprising in 68.

Highlights os course was the castle, the original church was built in the 14 century but the front was completed in the 1920s.   



To feed our musical soul we went to see a string orchestra and organ with a soprano singer in a gothic church.  The played a lot of recognizable classics including ave Maria and ending with a version of Vivaldis 4 seasons.



Sunday we were relaxing up in the wine area, pjz, and found a big band show with a big orchastra and singers at the Jazz dock great way to spend a rainy afternoon.  The added bonus was we seen the tour boats going through the locks. 





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