Monday, May 26, 2008

Praha - Day 5 - Peanut's Day Out

Peanut is my traveling companion in the absence of Anthony, since Anthony has Eddie, his pal since the day he was born, it was felt I should have a pal too.

On the last day of my Prague visit, I decided that I should take Peanut out and show him the city. I think he really enjoyed himself, he had a smile on his face all day long. And it was a glorious warm and sunny day.

We started off the day walking down Wenceslas Square, which has a great front view of the national museum.

At the Lucerna Palace off Wenceslas Square, you can find one of David Černý's sculptures. Entitled Horse, it represents St. Wenceslas raiding a dead horse.

Inside the National Museum. We got bored of that quickly.
Another of Černý's sculptures can be found crawling over the Prague TV Tower. Allegedly it's an homage to materialism, I thought was kinda creepy in a cool sort of way.


City view from a park.

A great example of art nouveau architecture. The Europa Hotel.
And we got to ride the tram.
Another example of Frank Gehry's somewhat irresponsible architecture - Dancing House.
The home of Prague's Philharmonic Orchestra - Municipal House - is another example of the city's impressive architecture.
After a hard day of touristing, we needed a caramel frappucino break.
And alas, that was the end of our little weekend getaway. We buckled up and headed back to London.

7 comments:

Tony said...

You're such a dork. Cute, but a dork :p

Anonymous said...

so cute:)

Ameet said...

Love the dancing house - it's more Gaudi-esque than his other works.

CKC123 said...

Ok, now your scaring me.

dit said...

Peanut is adorable. How nice of you to show him such a good time in such a great city.

Anonymous said...

sweet photos))))

Florizel said...

I am both sad and excitied that there is a starbucks in Prague now.

Sorry to hear that you are home too.

Did you make it outside the city?