Honeymoon (week) Prague, September 2008

It took us a long time to pick up 30 pictures and find the right computer in order to upload an album. If you press Here you will find the chosen ones!

Prague a short story about our Honey-Week

We are back from Prague where we spent our 'honey-week' from the 9th of September til the 18th!

We lived in a private home with our own apartment, two rooms, a dining-room, a kitchen, a bathroom and a toilette.
Our nice hostess - mrs Hana Seflova - served us a lovely breakfast every morning!
She was very kind and offered us good service in every way!
We can recommend her if and when you visit Praha (Prague/Prag): Hana's B&B.
Pragues is a fantastic city with a plentitude of culture and history making the nine days far from sufficient in order to discover all the interesting sites.
We display some photos in the next post on the blog (see above).
To say something:
We visited the Prague 'burg' area - Hradcany - with all the medieval buildings, The Royal castle, Stary krlovsky palac; the dome, The S:t Veit Cathedral and the Golden lane where the alchemists worked.

The 'burg' was constructed some thousand years ago. Today the president of the Czech Republic resides there.
You can also find the Arch bishop Palace here - Arcibiskupsky' palac.
Franz Kafka lived in this area for a while, at the 'alchemists road' . He wrote A country doctor (Ein Landarzt) in house number 22 .

In connection to these buildings you also find Loreto, a copy of Santa Casa di Loreto in Italy where S:t Mary is said to have staid after giving birth to Jesus Christ. It's the most important pilgrimsite in the Czech Republic.

The old town is completely marvellous and in comparison with the Old Town in Stockholm makes the latter look rather bleak.
In the Old Town we saw the Minute House where Kafka lived as a young boy, the town hall with the clock and its classical 'performance' every hour, making hundreds of hundres of people stop and gaze at the clock.


Another interesting building is of course the magnificent Tyr church and the monument over the Christian martyr Jan Hus, burned at the stakes on the square.

We climed the Petrin hill where we looked at the small
-Eiffel tower (60 meters), built by Gustave Eiffel in the 1890's (1893 perhaps),
-the monastery (where we saw a ping-pong table and two tennis courts destroying my picture of monks only praying, making beer, wine and cheese),
-the so called 'Hunger Wall', built by Karl IV to give work and food to the poor in Praha,
-the observatory and
-the rose garden.
We had a marvellous view over the city from here and we strongly recommend a visit.
If you don't want to use your legs there is a funicular.


We crossed the Charles Bridge - Karluv most - of course, looking at all the wonderful statues and ornaments on each side of the bridge.

A visit to the Kakfa museum and the Alfons Mucha museum was also included.
The ambience at the Kafka museum was terrific, frankly speaking somewhat 'Kafkauesque'.

We would also like to recommend the Mucha museum because even if you think you know the art created by Alfons Mucha, you will find a number of works, not so commonly known, that is if you're not an expert in the field.
Finally we bought a card that gave us the possibility to visit all six synagogues in the Jewish Quarters and the exhibitions connected to these synagogues.
We had the chance to see and read about one of Aurore's favourite 'objects' namely the Golem and its creator rabbi Judah Loew!
The history concerning the life of the Jewish community in Praha is very interesting and the exhibitions extremely fine.
Funny enough there was a female employee in one of the synagogues who spoke Swedish!
She told us she had lived in Sweden for only three years during the 1960's but could still speak the language extremely well!
We also saw the National Theatre - a beautiful building - and visited the State Opera House for a performance of Die Fliegende Holländer by Richard Wagner.

A look at the Lennon Wall of course and nearby an interesting art exhibition with giant animals made of concrete in different sparking colours.

There are much more to be told and many more photos to display but we stop here for now as the space and time - yours and ours - are limited.