True to her desires, Sue asks me to take a picture of a McDonalds in Prague...
The subway in Prague is very deep underground (probably because it has to go under the river).
These statues represented characters from Don Giovani and world musical styles.
There were many cool buildings in Prague.
The Tyn Church.
The (old) town square.
The astronomical clock is on the old town hall, right on the square.
A partially restored building, with some of the original artwork.
The building where Kafka lived. Everything has been replaced except the doors, apparently.
We visited the Jewish quarter. Of couse, we visited the Jewish quarter on a national holiday, which was also a Saturday, so everything was closed.
The Maisel Synagogue.
The Jewish cemetary. This is the only place where Jews were allowed to be buried at some point, and the gravestones are right on top of eachother. (I took a better picture later.)
The Pinkas Synagogue.
This is the original Jewish town hall. It's now apartments (the left door) and a restaurant (the right door).
This is the "old new synagogue." The old-old synagogue was torn down when the restrictions were lifted that all Jews had to live in this quarter.
This is the Jewish cemetary, from around the other side.
We don't remember what this building is, but we think the construction on the right is for the Hotel Pariz.
Next to the old new synagogue.
This is the side of the old new synagogue.
The Tyn Church, again.
This guy swallowed swords like they were nothing.
The National Museum.
We were amazed with architecture like this.
This is the theater where Don Giovanni premiered.
We wound up back on the town square, looking at the astrological clock. This time, there were many other people also looking at the clock...
More of the square. We ate lunch in a restaurant on the square shortly after.
The Pulverturm (Powder Tower).
A picture of the statue on top of the bank, taken from the top of the Pulverturm.
Some of the architectural detail of the top of the Pulverturm.
These are all taken from the top of the tower.
An empty chamber inside the tower.
These are all from the inside of the tower.
And the door to the tower...
After visiting the tower, we wandered by the Hotel Pariz. One of our neighbors went to Prague, and recommended that we visit it.
The Pulverturm again, from the other side.
Prague was full of these pretty little streets. This was our walk from the Pulverturm to the Charles bridge.
These pictures are of and from the Charles bridge. It was packed with people, street vendors, and musicians.
After the bridge, we walked up yet another hill toward the Prague Castle to get dinner.
St. Michael's church.
This is the square around St. Michael's church and Lichtenstein Palace.
Again, walking up the hill...
The Strahov monestary and library at the top of the hill.
Finally, we made it to dinner. We ate at a little asian restaurant. Sue really liked the ashtrays.
After dinner, we walked back to Lichtenstein Palace for our concert of Mozart, Beethoven, Dvorak, and Vivaldi. We had to kill about 20 minutes, so we stopped at a little coffee shop in the palace.
At the concert.
After the concert, we walked to the subway, and went back to our hotel.
It's a shame that this photo didn't come out better: we have the exact same paper boxes in Pennsylvania, and the newspaper's logo (the Metro) is also the same.
