Another really enjoyable visit to Prague
Vee and I have now returned to London after a long weekend (four nights) in Prague. We have both been there more than 20 times so this was not a trip to see sights but to catch up with very close friends. We managed to see a total of 20 which included a new boyfriend and a new baby.
There was snow when we first landed and the temperature hovered just below and just above zero all weekend. As always, we did lots of long walks. Prague is a fabulous city with magnificent architecture and lots of cobbled streets and hidden courtyards. This is probably the time of year when the city has the fewest tourists, so we were able to savour all the magic of the place.
Of course, since we have been to Prague so many times, we have seen all the sights and museums, but we always manage to fit in something new.
This time, we called into locations commemorating three famous men from Czech history: the astronomer Johannes Kepler whose discoveries are celebrated in a one-room museum off Karlova street, religious reformer Jan Hus who was the subject of a large exhibition at the Clam-Gallas Palace, and filmmaker Karel Zeman whose ground-breaking work in animation is illustrated in a museum near the west end of the Charles Bridge.
Also we made a repeat visit to the Museum of Communism which ironically is located above a McDonald’s and next to the Casino on Na Prikope. As we first visited the then Czechoslovakia before the ‘velvet revolution’ of 1989, we know that the situation described in the museum is no exaggeration.
You can find an overview of my visits to Prague here.