Prague - some thoughts

So we have spent the morning walking about taking in the sights. We are now only at an internet cafe to book our bus to Czesky Krumlov tomorrow.

A few strange things first

* Men here love to double denim- don't know who told them this was ok.
* The toilets have a weird extra shelf in the bowl so you do your business and it sits on this shelf (maybe so you can inspect it?) before you flush it away!
* There are a lot of Police wandering around- I mean a lot! Makes you feel safe though
*When we were on the train headed to our hotel there was a family all wearing blue jumpers that said LUBE

A few delightful things
* The people are very friendly
* The buildings are colourful
*The food is cheap
* The food is good!

Anyway we went to a Jewish Synagogue this morning- just wandering past and were so captivatd by its beautiful colourful, detailed front that we wandered in. It is one of the mot beutiful interiors I have ever seen. Amazing details and colours and amazingly it survived German occupation. Apparently they used it as a storage space which is why it wasn't destroyed.

Sat in a lovely cafe and drank coffee and ate 'little czeck cakes' - gorgeous.
Tonight we are oing on a dinner cruise along the river as an anniversary celebrations. Tim and I have been together for 3 years.

Anyway will update when we have the time.

Ok so after we finally figured out how to book a bus to Cesky Krumlov we wandered down (pretty much by accident) into the old Town Centre- which was abuzz with much excitement. We were later to find out that there was a big volleyball tournament on in Prague! Which also explained the family wearing the LUBE T Shirts- perhaps the name of their team?

The Old Town Centre is rather amazing. All the buildings are brightly coloured and painted with either scenery or fake decorations that would usually take the form of sculpted gargoyles and the like. Really lovely. There was some sort of fair happening with singing and revelry and msot excitingly lots of food and beer options. So We stood at a tall table and tucked into some Czeck goods- a couple of massive (and cheap!) beers and Tim had these potato pancakes that were pretty much leaking lard (they like oil and fat in this country) with a side of cabbage and I had what was labelled 'Old Prague ham' and should better have been described as nearly a whole baby pig. They just carve off a hunk from the spit and give it to you on a plate with two bits of bread. It feels incredibly medievel and it tasted pretty bloody good.

After this we both felt a bit ridiculously full and slightly drunk so we just wandered about the old centre which is an amazing maze of little cobblestone streets, lovely shops and cafes etc. There is no time to try and head anywhere specific because you get so easily distracted by one alley or another and again you are off track. We checked out the 'astronomical clock' which is one of the meeting points for a billion tours.

We ended up in a coffee shop which specialised in hot chocolates- you could get hot chocolate with pretty much anything your heat desired- so Tim had hot chocolat4e and coconut milk and I had hot chocolate with ginger. It was a traditional sludgy cup of liquid chocolate with your additional flavours in a little dish next to it! Neither of us could finish and felt slightly ill after. But we just rolled on out and around the streets again until we realised we had been wandering for about 12 hours and our feet hurt and we wanted to go home to bed.