Day 3 from Prague

Since our last addition to our blog we have spent a fair bit of time walking to the main tourist arrea of Old Prague - Wenceslas Square, seeing the Astronomical Clock (I won't try to describe its workings - Mom's comment was that you needed an engineering and astronomy degree to understand the brochure I picked up that describes what it is all about), walking down the long,long street to get to the National Museum (paleoentology, geology, fossils, etc.) at the end, then walked over to the train station so that we would know where to go on Friday when we head off to Vienna. Made our way back to the room where we had a bit of rest then went back to the Charles bridge and ended up haveing dinner on the river just under the Bridge (have included a picture of the beautiful couple on their vacation!!), then walked against the backdrop of the early evening and the lights on the Prague Castle complex - Mom's description of it was "medieval fairy-tale" and it was all that.

Today we took the funicular r.r. up to the Castle complex, did a lot more walking, just saw the church (St. Vitus Church) that is part of the complex (have included a pic of one of the huge stained glass windows in it - quite amazing.

It has been getting hotter and hotter, 35 today scheduled to go up to 38 tomorrow. It gets to be rather incapacitating after a while. For lunch today, we went to a restaurant, next to the Crown Plaza-Prague Castle Hotel that was built inside one of the old catacombs - really neat atmosphere, the real McCoy and about 20 degrees cooler.

Here are some more pics with brief descriptions of what we are seeing.

Sorry gang - tried to upload 6 pics and only 3 came through - the computer was swearing at us in Czech or something so you will have to settle for these three. Will try to send more tomorrow.

Jim & Joan