Friday, October 7, 2022

More Of Mala Strana And Smichov

Another day we decided to walk more of Mala Strana, particularly the riverfront, and then on to Smichov, its market and (Flemish) French fries. Many interesting sights.

Vicki surveys the scene, the Vltava and New Town

Outside the Kafka Museum: "One morning Gregor Samsa awoke
to find he had been transformed into a perpetually pissing bronze
statue..."

Museum not visited

Narrowest alley ever, so far

Famous bookstore (on the Left Bank, too)

At the shot shop; public drinking apparently OK in this precinct

Approaching the Campa sculpture museum: David Cerny's Babies

Closer up

Untitled, by Anonymous

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Montana sculpture

Amazing sequence department: along come some swans and
four guys, unusually suited, paddling an inflatable

Thus

We figure a) they are trying to capture the swans, b) they are going
to do the white water at the dam, c) they are part of the Czech Olympic
inflatable crew team, or d) none of the above

Dangerously close to the white water, the swans turn

The correct answer is d) none of the above; they were just four
construction workers returning from a beer break

Upper Mala Strana street scene

More pretty buildings

Still processing this one

Unusually well-organized veggie stand at the
market (just root veggies on this side...) in Smichov

And more interesting buildings

Not pictured: best frites in Prague at Fancy Fries