Prancing through Praha

I am just killing with these blog titles. Awesome. Anyway where did I leave off? Thursday night? Okay- Friday Saturday Sunday. Let's go.

Friday:
Early solo trip to the museum of medieval art and a walk along the river. Of note: a bunch of albrecht durers and a couple Lucas Cranach the elders
Met up with tommy and primo for a walking tour of Prague (in sequence: old town square and astronomical clock, new town; wencleslas square, jewish quarter, Charles bridge, powder tower)
Lunch in the main square
The Jewish quarter synagogues. Of note: the Jewish idea of medicine as being a divine calling, and the exhibit of childrens drawings from the holocaust. The latter was incredibly powerful- and so devastatingly normal. Drawings of normal life (suns, houses, families) despite horrendous conditions. Really powerful.
Coffee at the Franz Kafka cafe (Rick Steve sanctioned!)
Chill time at the hostel for primo and Tommy, hungry time for me. Apparently in Barcelona they routinely don't eat till 10pm. Not cool.
Late but delicious delicious dinner
Bar for a couple of drinks

Saturday:
Solo morning walk: a peek into the municipal building concert hall, then to the mucha museum. INSTANT LOVE. Alfons mucha founded the art nuveau (sp?) movement and
I love the work. So cool. Then a quick stop at the "finest chocolate store in Praha" and a surrepticious stop at starbucks. They dont do takeaway coffee anywhere else!
Woke Tommy and primo up, then off to st Nicholas cathedral- pretty baroque church
Yummy grilled vegetable lunch
Prague castle! St vitus's cathedral (with it's mucha stained glass window) then the royal palace (with it's history of jousting in the main hall and apparently perfectly legal defenestrations) then st georges basilica (dating back to 990) and then some great panoramic views of the city. And some sun worshiping.
Oh also we tried and failed to catch the changing of the guards. Twice.
Quick hostel stop
"Aspects of Alice" blacklight theatre production- weird weird weird but very technically cool. Artsy to the extreme. Maybe the high-on-absynth extreme.

Sunday (today):
Lady Tyn cathedral
A unsuccessful hunt for Ungelt Garden
Successful souvenir shopping
Successful catching of plane
Check in to awesomely central hostel and quick dinner

In sum: Prague was gorgeous. Old and cobbled and pulsing with history. And tourists. I would have liked to get a bit further past the gold-plated exterior and more into the funky boho art thing (mucha inspired) but I guess that will have to wait for another trip. It was a lovely trip.

Now, on to Barcelona! Four days here, then back to home base for a few days of recuperation before the fam comes. Seeing nana and papa in a little over a week!! Now shower and bed.

Much love,
Erin