Last Delightful Day in Prague

I found my way to a salon and had a wash and blow out……it was heavenly (not as good as my best: Lyndsay). My guy told me he learned English watching The Real Housewives shows—- oh boy— I told him we were all not like them.

I then set off to lunch on a boat that cruised the river Vitava..the food was pretty unremarkable but it gave me a whole new perspective of Prague.  The city center area is really condensed with buildings that are lovely but you cannot see more than what is right around you.  The views from the boat are great:

On the hill is a large metronome that moves continuously on its own power.  It has stopped four times and there were floods in the city each of those times. (Bad things happen if it stops–I’m a believer)

After my boat/lunch, I was ready to tackle the castle:

It looks more like a bunch of palaces around a massive Cathedral.  The St. Vitas Cathedral is stunning (going to give that one in Cologne a run for favorite church ranking).  It wasn’t finished until 1929. They ran out of money and Catholics. The Nationalists finished it because they felt pride in Prague’s history.  A Cathedral name comes about from the body/relics buried in the church.  They wanted to name it Saint Wenceslaus but they only had an arm—have to have a whole body.

Prague feels a little like Paris but a “sort of” worn/ tattered version.  It doesn’t have wide streets and very much “greenery “.  The surrounding areas have not been “kept up” and there is graffiti everywhere.  It looks like there were 41 years of “communism” sameness/plainness (the communist made the Czech’s take the beard off one of the statues on the mechanical clock so he would not look different). There are still around 15% communist voters.  It is not likely they will ever have political power because in 1989 when communism ended all the other political parties made a pact to never form any type of coalition with the communists.  Therefore they would need to get 51% of the populace vote.