We started our walking tour today at 8.30AM…in a bus. This is the form of our favourite walking
tour. It dropped us off at the Prague Palace on the second highest hill
overlooking Prague. The series of palaces makes it the biggest palace complex
in Europe. We saw them change the guard on the palace complex.
Apparently their uniforms had been designed by the same person who
designed the costumes for the film Amadeus (I have no idea if that is a good
thing or a bad thing). We toured through the St Vitus Cathedral that took
hundreds of years before it was finally completed. The Prague Castle complex
gave us lovely views over the city. We had coffee on a lovely veranda with
limited views. The tour took us through
the Wallenstein garden complete with maze, white peacocks, grotto wall - dripstone, live giant
owls in an avaiary(and I mean giant!), Charles Bridge,
the Market Square with Prague’s astronomical clock (designed 605 years ago). Lunch was in a beautiful Municipal Hall which
was decorated art deco style. Went on a
tour of Lobkowicz Palace this afternoon.
It had a small but impressive collection of 16th-17th
Century portraits, ceramics, firearms, manuscripts of Beethoven and Mozart a
painting by Canaletto and Bruegal possibly would be worth that if they were
able be sold they would be worth $10-15 million dollars each.
Prague city is reasonably compact but is easy to get lost
with some of the side streets as not all have names on the street corners. The buildings often are Art Deco and do make
it attractive.
We had dinner tonight at the Lobkowicz Palace or at least in
the cellar. The food was lovely, the
accordion player a little too noisy and the bus ride home quite entertaining
and educational trip from our fellow cruise buddies who had enjoyed Czech beer
who then enjoyed more alcohol before heading home.
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