I've heard so many nice things about Prague over the years that I had to
discover if they were true for myself so when Chrissa and I were road tripping
around Austria last Christmas we decided it would be nice to end the trip at the
capital of the Czech Republic.
We jumped on the train in Vienna and in less than five hours we were bang in the
middle of Prague.
It was cloudy and wet but the narrow cobblestone streets and Baroque
architecture really stood out to me and made me forget about the rain.
The city was far more beautiful than I could have pictured in my mind's eye, especially
under all the Christmas decorations and the flickering lights.
There's history everywhere you look, from the colorful rows of the huge apartment blocks to the
many towers scattered around, once the gates to the old city, everything comes
together to make you feel like you're in a medieval fairytale.
Amongst all this history however there are some modern architectural jewels the dancing house
by Melanie Cheng Gary well amazing confuse you with its illusion of
movement
if the old city square team church looks just like one of Walt Disney's castles
with its great towers and spires
even at sunrise Charles Bridge is swarming with people from all around the
world who've come to admire splendor the ridge connects the lesser town of Prague
to the old town and under its 16 arches flows the river Vltava
as the Sun sets the light fades and the old street lamps light up Prague shifts
from a romantic fairy tale town - what could easily be the setting of a dark
gothic thriller but don't let that scare you rather let it excite you and intrigue you.
as it did me