So yesterday we just left everything and went off for dinner at the best Thai here. Nice food, nice people - though the place was empty (then again, it was early).
Afterwards we decided to walk home - about a one-hour leisurely walk and as we had the camera, here is an impression what a summer walk through Prague is like.
It's long, it's romantic (in the sense of Victorian Romanticism) and it's probably sentimental in parts. There are also lots of pictures. So the first half is behind this cut. With more to follow tomorrow.
It began with walking past this facade - on the riverside. We've walked past it many times before, but never photographed, so finally we did.
Then it got a bit out of hand as we turned and walked down one of the most outrageously Art Nouveau streets in Prague -
This one (below) was amusing, as all along the facade the shields above the window were just plain shields. But on this one the artist had turned one into an animal head. Actually, there are loads of these jokes on Prague facades (my favourite has to be the Puss in Boots in Old Town who is in a state of, er, considerable excitement). You just have to learn to look up and look closely.
Not much to say - except that this is just a "take your breath away" building.
To top it all a pair of sparrowhawks were nesting behind an Art Nouveau depiction of "Night" next door. Hawks with aspirations I assume.
What a great building to house a Gender Studies centre (below). I mean, you too would love to have androgynous cherubs kissing passionately on YOUR Gender Studies centre, wouldn't you?
And then it was round the corner and there was the Frank Gehry "Dancing House". And a bride standing under it:
So - that was the first half of the walk. The bit I'll talk about tomorrow is a little different. Think the wedding scene from The Godfather.
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