Day Eighteen
Prague
25 August 2007 23:43

We got up a little earlier than the past couple of days and after breakfast headed to the giant metronome which sits atop a large hill overlooking the city. Why it’s there is hard to guess, but it is considered a “sculpture”. The site on which it stands used to be the site of a massive Stalin statue and the Czech people tore it down so perhaps in some way it’s a reminder.

Now on the other side of the river, we tried to look for the church of St Nicholas but after looking for a while couldn’t find it.

We decided to kill some time by taking a cruise along the river that separates the city but we just missed the departure time by a few minutes. Instead, the tour operator asked another guy nearby to give us the same tour but on his small catamaran; it ended up being a private tour with just the two of us (and the boat’s owner)! It was nice to cruise in the sun, relaxing, taking in the sights. The owner even took photos of us and let me drive for a while.

It seems that the “old city” of Prague (the “old city” is over 1,000 years old and the “new city” is only 650) encourages wandering as this is what we did again. We found a small market so we did some souvenir shopping then did a little more shopping. I bought a pair of shorts and three t-shirts for under $45 (Justine bought a pair of shorts yesterday for around $55) before we did more walking.

We headed back to the hotel, with me snapping photos all the while, and went to a small restaurant two doors down for dinner.