Czech it out: Britt and Susan, a fellow UT prof, scout out Prague for an upcoming international travel class, and Dave tags along. We all learn that four days is scarcely enough time to unravel this city’s secrets and discover its charms.
Welcome to Prague
Britt's favorite toy store
The astronomical clock at Old Town Hall (Staroměstská Radnice)
What time is it?
Building, interrupted
Jan Hus looks over the Church of Our Lady Before Týn
Mmm, svařák
Church of St. Nicholas in Old Town Square
Art Nouveau mosiac at Municipal House (Obecní Dům)
Czech hood ornament
Looking up at Old Town Hall
An Old Town Square view
Door detail at Old Town Hall
Russian nesting doll, anyone?
Approaching Charles Bridge (Karlův Most)
Hello, I'm Charles IV
Um, why the Hebrew?
On the Charles Bridge
St. John the Baptist points to Prague Castle
Elephants love the Charles Bridge
Please don't drink the musical instruments
The Little Quarter gate on the Charles Bridge
No cockroaches here: Franz Kafka's house
The Czech Dixieland band
Here comes the snow
Snow-capped Powder Tower
Elephants always travel in style
They blinded us with science
The Loreta church and shrine
Welcome to Prague Castle
Susan prepares for her new career in the castle security industry
A simple "no solicitation" sign would have sufficed
Castle snowman
Outside St. Vitus Cathedral
Inside St. Vitus Cathedral
Rose-colored stained glasses
Britt aims high
Inside the apse
Good King Wenceslas' final resting place
Obilisk
Around the back of St. Vitus Cathedral
Loitering on Golden Lane
Statue outside Daliborka Tower
Daliborka Tower Daliborka Tower: it's everywhere you don't want to be
Something for everyone
Standing guard
The descent into Malostranská metro station
Checking out the menu at Jágr's Sport Bar
The real Budweiser
Memorial to the victims of Communism
St. Wenceslas' statue and the National Museum
The former Parliament building is now home to Radio Free Europe
Wenceslas Square: more like a boulevard
In Ungelt
Czech bagels!
Jan Hus and the Church of St. Nicholas
Souvenir stalls in Old Town Square
The Charles Bridge at night
Crucifix and castle
Outside the Maisel Synagogue
Suitable statue for Franz Kafka
The Spanish Synagogue
A grave sight: The Old Jewish Cemetary
Tombstones
One of the 12,000 tombstones
Uprooted
Saying prayers
The Ceremonial Hall
Gothic Jews: the Old-New Synagogue
The Charles Bridge and Prague Castle
Prague Castle above the Vltana River
The National Theater
Along the Vltava
Ginger and Fred: the Dancing House, or Tančící Dům
Approaching the National Theater again
Old and new architecture at the National Theater
Looking down Wenceslas Square
The Museum of Communism, conveniently located above McDonald’s
Ode to a tractor, in the museum’s mock-up Communist Czech schoolroom
The mock-up interrogation room in the Museum of Communism. How cozy!
