Prague - Thursday

A glimpse into the busyness of life is seen in this blog as I am writing about our holiday that is a full two weeks ago, although I can still picture it all, how lovely. After eating one more knockout breakfast at the Step we found our way back to the city centre, how picturesqe it is, especially with the beautiful weather that we encountered. The goal of the day was to stroll through the Jewish section, visit a Salvador Dali exhibition and finish at the Communism Museum. Maybe some of that itinerary is not what you would choose for a cosmopolitan city like Prague, but alas we are into other culture, and I am really into history, the Dali part sounded unique, and it was. The Jewish section comprises some very affluent shopping areas, what looked to be incredibly old narrow streets, upper crust flats and seven synagogues that have been used for many years. We did not go into all, instead we chose to go into the New-Old Synagogue. After visiting it, I realized it is Old, not so much New, but it is called New because when built it was new, then after others being built after it was old. It has been in continual use since the 13th century, so ya it is old, and I have no pics they are not allowed. It was an impressive site to sit in, to observe and learn about, I feel better about myself after hanging in there for a while. After perusing the shops, getting a coffee, and walking around somewhat tiredly (word?) we swung into the Dali exhibit. It was not the norm, some of the artwork was fabulous, some played with your mind, some was offending, some was just flat out there. I really enjoyed the carvings of rhinos that were normal bodies with incredibly long spindly legs, and elephants like that as well were great too. We found some culture there in the Old Square, and wandererd around some more unfound streets until we came to the Communism Museum. I was worn out at this point, but new that I had to go on, so I perverbially buckled my belt and went in. I find amazing that the city of Prague after being occupied by Nazi, going through two World Wars and an intense Soviet influence and occupation that the city is in such nice shape. Very little of the impressive architecture has been ruined throughout the tumultuous time of the city. The museum was an eye into life in communist Czechoslovakia (still can spell it Mom and Dad:) and I would not want to have lived there, a bleakness and a worry seemed to be the words that popped into my head. After visiting the museum our work was done in Prague and we headed back to the hotel to then head to Ruyzne Airport outside of town. There was nothing of note during the rest of the trip except to say that there was nothing of note, so nothing went wrong. Our housemate Jazz picked us up at East Midlands airport, and she had sandwiches and Coke, that was music to my ears. Go to Prague if you can, later

earl How do you not take a pic of this cute police car?

Here is one of the synagogues in the Jewish section

Check out the narrow streets lined by baroque, it is quite unique