Praha Day 1

We are in love with Prague! Yesterday we had absolutely perfect weather, and really enjoyed just taking everything in whilst walking around the city. We felt less compelled to run from site to site, and just walked around and felt the atmosphere. We started out with breakfast in Old Town Square, which at 8am is a ghost town (we liked it better this way). We then walked across the Charles Bridge, which is an old pedestrian bridge of cobblestones, lined with Biblical statues. We managed to get there early before it was riddled with people, so we got some nice pictures.

We climbed up to Prague Castle to check out St. Vitus' Cathedral and some of the other sites up there. We were trying to conserve money so we didn't see everything it had to offer, but we poked around for awhile. After that we went to the Petrin Tower, which is a large viewing tower that looks just like the Eiffel Tower. The views from there were amazing - you could see the entire city and much of the countryside. As a side note, we also got to take a FUNICULAR up there, and we know how I feel about funiculars (giddy like a schoolgirl). ;)

We walked through (Good King) Wenceslas Square and a nearby market, which had a lot of toys, food and other goods. Including - YES - a HARRY POTTER MARIONETTE. Don't worry, pictures are coming! After lunch, we climbed to the top of the Old Town Hall tower, which also had very nice views - we actually liked it better than the previous two because it was so much closer to the architecture, and you could really see the sights from up there. We then walked through St. Nicholas' church, which had a gigantic chandalier and beautiful frescos painted inside. Lastly, we walked by the National Theater but were unable to get in.

After our marathon week of sight seeing, we were knackered. So we went to a restaurant that had tables that SWING - think of a child's swingset, where you have the swing when two people can face each other in chairs. Now, put a table full of cocktails in the middle. HEAVEN! After a couple of drinks, we met up with Leona for some wine and chat. This morning we're off to meet Leona at a park in southern Prague, and then to the airport to return to London town (for me, Marina is off to Barcelona).