The End of Prague or just the beginning . . .

Welcome to our blog about our 2008 visit to Prague.  It is best read in chronological order starting with Hello World! For our current Prague Blog please go to the link at the bottom of this post. We’ve finally and sadly come to the end of our trip.  However, I want to mention a few [...]

Prague Christmas Carp

Christmas is almost here.  We have been keeping our eyes open for two things!  One was a restaurant to have a Christmas Dinner on Christmas Day…the other?  Watching for the selling of carp!  Carp?  The fish, carp?  Yes!  Tradition has it that carp is what Czech’s eat on the 24th, the night of the BIG [...]

Mozart Museum & A Taste of Egypt

Bertramka is the name given the Prague Mozart Museum. In 1787, shortly before the premiere of Don Giovanni at the Estates Theatre, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart moved to Bertramka to finish his masterpiece.  The part of the villa that served as the living quarters is now a museum and features a permanent exhibition on W.A. Mozart [...]

Fred & Ginger, The Dancing Building

Now we are going to walk down the street(s) and cross a bridge to go to the Mozart Museum.  We will pass by an architectural wonder of a building called: Fred and Ginger!  (The Dancing Couple) and also called the "Dancing Building"!!!! Coming up onto it…         Interesting, no?       [...]

Dvorak Museum at Vila Amerika

One of the things we decided to do was visit a few museums.  There are so many to choose from.  Michael is not a Museum Person, so I chose three I wanted to see.  Dvorak, Mozart and Mucha.  Dvorak and Mozart for music, and Mucha as an artist.  I wanted to see the Communism Museum [...]