Tag: Prague
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Holiday superlatives…
It’s summer holiday time, everyone’s favourite season. We have sunshine (hopefully), we have freedom – so what’ll we remember most about summer ’17?? Some of my past hols have been more memorable than others – for various reasons. A small selection: Best childhood holiday: That would be the first year we went to Cornwall, when…
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Goodbye, Prague…
I took enough pics to keep the blog busy for months on end, but we’ll stop here. A trilogy of posts is enough. So – the final photos… The streets around my hotel reminded me of the film Goodbye, Lenin! which came out in the early noughties. It’s about a young East German whose dedicated…
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Prague – the hanging man, and the speediest escalators ever…
Prague is an easy city to get around in. Most of the sights in the centre are within walking distance of each other, and for the rest, you can buy an all-day transport ticket for a very reasonable price. The buses and trams come every few minutes. And then there’s the underground… One of my…
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Prague: John Lennon, the upside down horse, and Frank Kafka…
I spent a week in Prague recently, visiting Son 2 who is spending a semester at uni there. What an amazing city; I could blog all week and still not do it justice. So here are a few pics of some of the best bits of my week: To start with, the lovely view over…