Havelska Prague

... a dance with them. Witek was pulled out of the audience by one of the girls and of course he put on a great show! Apparently she was quite surprised at his fancy footwork. It was funny to watch some of the other men give it a crack though! Some of them had obviously been tucking in to the free grog for a bit longer than us! They did a kind of slow dance where there were lots of turns and changing partners, Witek was a star!

We really enjoyed chatting with our group, everyone ...

... up at a hat party with one of those. Unless the party was serving re-fried beans.

Puppets are big in Prague. Theres a huge puppet culture here. Maybe it started with the Czech government.

The typical food is beef goulash, pork and all kinds of meat dishes with little to zero veggies. But if you order a side dish of spinach...WOW it tastes really garlicy and flavorful. They know how to cook spinach just right. But they're super carnivores, It ...

... after John Lennon).  It is actually a random wall in a pretty, yet less travelled part of Prague.  A lot of embassies were in this area.  I randomly found the Danish Embassy and took a pic of it.  The Lennon Wall got its name because people wrote Beatles' lyrics on it as a form of protest in communist times.  The government kept on covering the protests and so a constant fight over the wall ensued.  Since the fall of communism, people are free to ...

... of Prague. The campsite, when we finally reached it, was great. Super new facilities, good spacious pitches, indoor and outdoor pools, friendly English speaking owner and wi-fi which was strong enough to be able to use in the caravan. It is situated in the countryside about 10 miles south of Prague, far enough away to be peaceful but close enough to make sightseeing easy. There is a bus stop directly outside the site ...

... from when you returned from your travels and told me about this place. There is so much to see in addition to all the touristy stuff (which also good but I really do hate crowds). I think my highlight has to be walking down an alley in what seems like the middle of town, walking through a doorway and finding yourself in the most beautifully manicured terrace gardens. One down-side of this would have to be the steps, I have never climbed so many ...

... a book entitled "Civilisation" by Roger Osborne where his excellently researched history of the West since Year Dot got very ragged at the end and he had a little emotional dummy spit to wrap things up. He noted that the great masacres of the world had come exclusively from Western Europe. Um, except for 50m under Stalin and 60m under Mao, Roger. News in the week's Economist noted the sweeping changes in Russian textbooks being undertaken ...

Well who would have thought we would end up here first. The reason for this change in plan from going to spain was simple, the flight was cheap and so are we. Also seeing as we are very lazy we didn't get round to booking it till the day before and so faced the problem of finding a bed. Prague is great fun, full of old buildings like the rest of europe, you have to limit the number of photos you take because almost every thing is note worthy. We spent today on a free ...

... to wrestle with it, but once open a cobblestone street leads to the courtyard where a doubledecker garage lift allows four cars to park in the space of two. Once inside our sixth floor apartment our balcony looks across the courtyard to a round glass and steel tower inserted in a Franciscan monastery and we gaze all the way through the glass tower to the Baroque buildings in the next block. Strange perspective. We found a surreal art ...

... out they clost the place down at 1. There is a grassy area in front of the station, so we layed out a tarp and tried to sleep, depsite the slew of drunk bums around. It was scary, and made for a restless night. At some point during the night, close to 3, I was woken somehow. When I opened my eyes there was a man kneeling over me. I quickly slid away and, being groggy as I was, just sat and stared at the guy. He went off in Czech and when Ian said ...

... department store - none to be found in the corner shops. Does everyone use cloth in Prague? Mind you, finding public toilets not always easy on demand either. At the top of Petřin Hill over looking the city is a restored Tram/funicular that was well worth the time and effort to ride. Also on Petrin Hill is a vintage Hall of Mirrors and Maze built in the 1890's - quite a hoot for the kids. Especially the mirrors that distort your size and shape. We ...