Lola Knows Here Now

Lola knows Prague like the back of her hand, now that we're leaving. Her self-esteem is now restored.  Yesterday, we walked 8 miles according to her Fitbit and never once made a wrong step. That involved consulting a map at every street corner, but still...

We had to pick up our train tickets near the castle; it's a confusing area but we did walk right there and got the tickets. They seem to be valid which we worried about given I had ordered them on the internet. We leave here at 10:30 tonight.

We spent most of the day at the castle. The highlight of that area is St. Vitus cathedral, another building so huge, you can't get far enough away to capture the whole thing in a picture.

St. Vitus

St. Vitus interior

I don't think I was ever in this cathedral even though I've been to Prague twice before. It is magnificent. For Lola, it was her first European Gothic cathedral so she was beside herself, even though there was no dancing in the St. Vitus.

We also toured the palace, walked over the Charles Bridge, bought small watercolor pictures, and ate often. We went to the area where the Kafka Museum is but decided not to go in since we couldn't imagine what is in the museum. We opted for having wine on a terrace that overlooks the bridge.

Our New Friends

Overlooking the Charles Bridge

As "Manneken Pis" picture above shows just one of two moving sculptures; they face each other, peeing into a basin.

After the mountain adventure, we walked through the Jewish section but none of the synagogues were open.
All the big market stores are on one street in this area--Prada, Louis Vuitton, Rolex, etc. We found a French restaurant serving snails and mussels; it turned out to be Belgian though, but the snails and mussels were great. The menu informed us that mussels are the favorite food of Belgians.

Now, we are getting kicked out of our hotel so we will be wandering the streets until 10 tonight when we catch our train. I am now confident Lola will keep us from getting lost, as long as she remembers the maps.