Monday 29 July 2013

Sunday 21 July. Prague D

Today we did a trial run on a tram in preparation for our departure tomorrow. We got off a stop too early! It was too crowded in the old town so we walked over a bridge to the left bank and went, via the Kafka museum to the Petrin Funicular railway. We passed the Crawling Babies and the Pissing Men along the way.

A normal public transport ticket can be used on the Funicular. There are great views from the top and some beautiful rose gardens. There is a beer garden at the base of the Petrin Tower, a mini Eiffel Tower. You can walk up and down the tower via a double helix stairway. However 300 steps in a temerature of 30C was not to our taste. We chose instead to visit the Mirror Maze and the Astronomical Observatory.

We were more successful in finding our way back down from this hill and returned by much the same route we'd arrived to the Old Town. We had a very good meal in the Tratoria by Giovani before returning along the banks of the Vlatava to our hotel. Even after 6pm it was a very very hot walk.

Shiel watched the German TV in the evening which she insisted was somehow stuck on the sports channel.

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