The buildings in Prague are amazing - topped with onion domes, or spiky points with little balls or bingles on top (these are not technical terms, I assure you), laden with intricate carved stone statues and ornate railings. It is wonderful it all survived two world wars and communism mostly intact. We went up to the old castle and popped into numerous ornate churches, and Miles went into a meltdown taking architectural photos.
And we fueled all our walking with goulash, dumplings, apple strudel, and other sundry pastries, washed down with delicious Czech beer. The food and beer was not expensive, but everything else was. We were a bit surprised because clothes, shoes, accessories, etc. were higher than in Spain and France. Lots of high priced boutiques but nobody really in there buying anything.
Fortunately, there was also a free folk dancing festival on right around the corner from our hotel. That may send some of you screaming into the night, but actually it was really good. They had dance troupes from Russia, Czech Republic, Romania, Italy, Mexico, China and more. They were all in traditional costume, singing, dancing and wearing silly hats.
Even the town drunks got into it and often did their own dance steps at the back of the crowd. Hilarious.
Overall, we really liked Prague, even though it was a bit touristy and overcrowded with tour groups - hold up an umbrella and I swear you'd find 50 bewildered Italians following you around within 5 minutes. But as much as we enjoyed it, we couldn't live here because you would have to join Weight Watchers after just two weeks. I'm sure it will be much better in Munich where the beer, sausages, strudel and pretzels are very slimming - NOT!!!
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