Yesterday afternoon, myself and the current Mrs M arrived home, after spending a few days visiting the lovely city of Prague.
It’s a great place to visit if you like art galleries and bookshops. There are SO many art galleries and bookshops.
It’s also great if you are into old churches, because there are plenty of those too.
And, if differing styles of old architecture are your thing, then Prague needs to be on your list: Gothic, Renaissance, Baraque, to name just a few, are in abundance.
However, Mrs M and I aren’t into any of that rubbish – one Gothic church looks exactly the same as another, to me.
What it did have for us though, was some good weather, cheap food, cheap beer and lots of history – I don’t mind a bit of history, me.
Unfortunately, our last day there was marred by me picking up some sort of bug – possibly from the overcrowded Hop ‘n’ Stop buses, that we used so much to get around.
So, I have returned to Blighty, feeling absolutely shite and am currently missing the club BBQ that I was so looking forward to.
I have looked up my syptoms on Dr Google and it looks like I have contracted a dose of Spanish Flu – not the mild one that lays you low for a few days, but the one that killed about 50 milion people at the turn of last century.
Mrs M is constantly dosing me up with Paracetamol, so I’m sure I’ll be fine.
I’m intrigued by the bookshops. Are all the books in Czechoslovakian, or a range of languages? Or maybe you didn’t investigate that, but still. Sorry to hear you’ve been struck down, but congratulations on not adding to the 50 million! I’ve never been to Czechoslovakia, I should remedy that one day.
Didn’t really investigate, Bren. From looking in a couple of windows though, they seemed to be mainly books about the history of Prague and the architecture of Prague and the culinary delights of Prague and the religious denominations of Prague. I didn’t see anything on the science fiction of Prague, if that’s what you’re after.
Despite that, it’s a nice place to visit.
Glad you had a good time and sorry I recommended the bus; it was germ free when we used it earlier in the year…honestly!
The bus was a good idea… apart from that one time when we couldn’t figure out for the life of us, how to get to the pickup point on the other side of the dual-carriageway behind the main train station. Took us bloody ages!
Our bus was full of germs… and Germans.
Ah yep, we stopped at that one too and, yep, we couldn’t find the crossing so we could walk to our hotel. In the end we had to walk for ages to find the underpass and ended up by the river, which was no where near where we were staying!