Curios Tour Through the Prague

So, it's Saturday evening and I have clear picture of what am I going to do tonight - be with my brother, parents and my uncle from Prague (yeah that one) and have a bbq on our garden. Not so bad, eh? Well, I've just annoyed my mother because she wanted something from me and I told her that I'm just doing something on my computer so she started to yell at me that I don't do anything at all just sit at my computer and "doing something" when is holidays. I hate her hysterical scenes like was this one.

Well, I have few photos from the trip in Prague with my brother and father so check them out. All of them had been made by my brother and even though he's really really good photographer some of these photos are a bit askew. Nevermind, essential part - the different buildings of Prague are there anyway. So, enjoy small tour through the Prague in beautiful sunny weather:

The amazing astronomical clocks on the Old Town square. Every hour people - tourists - gather under it to see small performance of the puppets of apostles which are inside of this whole construction. I don't know if there in Europe exist any more astronomical clocks like these ones but without any doubts this is the most amazing thing from whole Prague! Oh, one thing I forgot to tell you. The man who developed and built these astronomical clocks was blinded by the king (I'm not sure if it was king) because he wanted to have only one copy of the astronomical clocks in HIS city/state. Some people are really weird, eh?

In my opinion the most beautiful building you can see in Prague - czech National Theatre on Narodni (National) avenue. This theatre had to be built twice because first construction burned up in 18th century. The curiosity about the construction of the "second" building is that czech people from whole country even those who were really poor gathered money to re-build the theatre. So, it was built by poor people for whole nation.

Really nice view of the Prague castle and Cathedral of St. Vit.

Me on Kampa near the Charles' Bridge. We were waiting there for our boat to have a look around the shores of Vltava. Meanwhile I've found these markers of the high of water during the floods in different years. The highest one is from the year 2002 when Czech Republic experienced really really bad floods. The underground in Prague was in some stations closed because there was water, Kampa was completely under water, cafés, restaurants on the shores were all gone. Water was just EVERYWHERE! People say that it wasn't cent-year's flood, it was 500-year's flood minimally. ( I'm 1,67m tall for comparing )

Charle's Bridge from Kampa. It's another place you have to see from the closer view. It worths it! It was built before amost 600 years and it's still in quite good condition. There are I guess 16 statues of different saints and famous czech people. Some of these statues had to be restored but they are still there, or their copies. Again, this monument was built thanks to the czech nation and also thanks to our best king ever Charles IV. We learn in history lessons that for the construction of the bridge the raw eggs were put into the mortar. Different villages and town from whole czech state were sending them to the Prague and one village even sent boiled eggs!! :D

This is not the boat we were in but you can booked these small boats with a guide and he/she will tell you everything you want to know about Prague.

The tram which are many in Prague and also in some other cities of Czech Republic. One friend of mine is working with these trams I think with electronics and with stuff like that. Once he had a small talk with me and my friends about the serious accidents which trams can cause and which they caused in the past. He also warned me to NEVER try to run between two waggons of tram. It's really gross story so I'm warning you:

• There was a couple - boy and girl - who were trying to catch the tram. So, the boy went first and he run between two waggons. That girl was following him but the tram had started to move and the girl running between the waggons suddenly disappeared. The boy immediately called dispatching and tell them that his girlfriend had run between the waggons and that she disappeared. The driver of this tram stopped and he went out to look on the waggons if the girl is there or not. She was absolutely nowhere! So, people started the searching party if they find her somewhere else, alive. The tram went back to depo in Hostivar which is about 30 minutes from the station where the girl disappeared. Everything was okay until the tram started to back and (the gross part) the parts of girl's body started to fall down from the undercart of the tram...

So guys NEVER try to run between two waggons of tram or train. It could cost you your life!

Kampa. One of the picturesque parts of Prague. As I was told it's also place of Mission Impossible I intro scene. I haven't seen it so I can't tell you more about it but it's that place. :)

Sorry that I don't have any photos of more parts of town but I think these are those which worth to visit! Prague is really beautiful city but I wouldn't live there. It's too overcrowded by tourists in center and peripheries of city aren't very nice places to live.

Oh, I made today my czech blog on blogger.com (see my profile, it's there). Actually, I've just moved my old design to the blogger's blog - it was work for whole day!! - and from now I will write here my czech blog. I know that most of you don't understand any czech word but if you are interested in me or in czech language, go and check it out :)

Till next post...