The day after Lindsey and Justin left, Alexis and Michael arrived! They were in London Friday-Sunday. They went to Venice and Croatia and we met them in Prague the next weekend. While they were here we: took The Skalka Walking Tour, had a crawfish boil in our living room, won second place in the pub quiz, explored The Jewish Quarter in Prague, the Prague Castle, ate a lot of sausage and potatoes in Prague, visited a little Czech neighborhood called Skalka, had tea at the Portrait Museum and a lot of exploring! Here's their visit in pictures-mostly of the Prague portion of the trip...
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| Old Town square in Prague |
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| Alexis, Michael and Dates |
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| Astronomical Clock |
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| About to take a tour of the Jewish Quarter! |
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| Old Jewish Cemetery |
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| Old Jewish Cemetary |
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| Spanish Synagogue |
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| Inside the Spanish Synagogue |
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| So pretty |
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| Beer and snack break |
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| We stopped in this cool restaurant that looked like it was in a cave |
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| Delicious food! |
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| We experimented with a little bit of Absinth |
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| Little Michael in a big city |
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| View of the Prague Castle from across the river |
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| Charles Bridge |
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| Charles Bridge and Prague Castle in the background |
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| Pretty day! |
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| Lunch on the river |
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| Walking across Charles Bridge |
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| Charles Bridge |
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| Charles Bridge |
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| Charles Bridge Entertainment |
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| Other side of the bridge |
The picture on the right is of Sue on a trip to Prague a while ago. We were on our way to the castle and just happened to walk by the exact spot she took this picture. So happy we stopped to take a picture of Dates by it!
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| Michael helping out the guard |
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| Dates in front of the Cathedral |
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| Prague Castle Cathedral |
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| Gorgeous Cathedral |
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| MapQuest |
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| There is a neighborhood in Prague called Skalka, so of course we had to go check it out! |
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| Next stop: Skalka! |
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| Inside the Skalka metro station |
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| Skalka was a pretty quiet place. There was not much to see other than a few bars and small casinos. |
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| Skalka walking around Skalka ;) |
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| Casino |
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| We all lost some of our monies in the casino. |
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| See ya, Skalka! |
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| Our hotel tucked in our pajamas when they made the bed. (And yes, I sleep in a Taylor High School t-shirt.) |
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| Zedenek (sitting next to Dates) works in the Stewart Title office in Prague. He was so generous and took us out for dinner Saturday night. After Michael, Alexis and I made wrong choices on our meal, he reordered some delicious Prague food for us. Such a nice man! |
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| Prague Castle at night |
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| The Dubliner-a really fun bar! |
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| Back in London! Olympic rings on Tower Bridge |
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| This is out of order, but we finally found crawfish in London! We have been talking about crawfish to all of our pub friends for months, so when we finally found them we had to try to cook them. It was raining (of course) so we boiled them right on the stove in our kitchen. They turned out really good-and hot! |
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| It was definitely a successful trip! |
