I posted extensively from Prague in 2010. The old city is a very beautiful place, especially if you like Art Nouveau, and so I was tempted to go out and see and photograph everything all over again. In part, I did. But I won't post it all over again, hoping mostly to confine myself to a few new things Vicki and I did. For more pix, see my posts from late August, 2010.
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| Fred and Ginger |
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| Rebecca's and Jeremy's apartment building on Dittrichova street |
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| Not Art Nouveau: some nice Social Realism just down the street |
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| Just a block away, at a church, a shrine to the Czech and Slovak partisans who parachuted back in to then Czechoslovakia in 1942 and assassinated Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi governor of Czechoslovakia and thought by some to be Hitler's heir; the partisans and their protectors, including a bishop, as I recall, were all killed; and the village of Lidice was razed in reprisal, all its male inhabitants executed and its women and children sent to death camps; Heydrich was chief architect of much of what was most evil about Nazism... |
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| The commemorative plaque; we were there just a day or two after the June 18th observance |
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| The bar across the street; another way of remembering... |
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| Sunday afternoon on the Charles River |
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| A peek into the old Jewish cemetery in the Josefov |
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| The great Czech restaurant up by the castle, U Labuti, where we all had dinner one night |
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| Rebecca, Jeremy, and Penelope, on the castle grounds |
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| Up in Hradcany castle, the Golden Lane, which was closed when Vicki and I were there in 2010 |
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| Tower by the Municipal House (next post) |
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| View of St. Vitus' Church, from the apartment on Dittrichova |
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| Just one of the great old buildings (I can't help myself!) |
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