The heat wave and jet-lag have made touring Prague a challenge, but we have managed to walk around the narrow cobblestone streets. They are a maze of barely navigable streets arranged helter-skelter around the old town center. Our apartment is in the center of the old town, only a block off the main tourist area but fairly quiet and uncrowded. Yesterday we set out in the heat for the main bridge and tourist office to get a map. We used our intuition to blindly set out in the direction of the bridge and quickly got mixed up in all the alleys, plazas, and dead-ends. Two hours later we found the bridge and got our much-needed map. It turns out had we gone right out of our door instead of left we would have walked one block to the bridge.
View from the Charles Bridge
We like to learn some basic phrases in whatever language is spoken in the countries that we visit. From the moment that we set foot here we realized that it wasn't going to be easy. Czech is a very complicated language, with no words looking similar at all and even the most simple of words being multi-syllable tongue twisters. We simply annoyed the locals trying to stumble through their language so now we just jump straight into English. Prague is very heavy with tourists, but mostly Russians and Germans from what we can tell. In spite of that, it is a great introduction to Europe. An amazing city with incredibly preserved architecture and history.
Escaping the heat along the river.
Gothic spires and sculpture
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