July 19 - Czeching out Prague

Today is proving to be a wonderful day. Our hotel is right on Wenceslas Square, right in the action of this beautiful busy city. I think that is the thing that is most striking about this city, is the beautiful architecture.

We started off the day by sleeping in, and then heading to an incredible continental breakfast at our hotel. I was especially excited about the roasted vegetables (vegetables have been hard to come by in some cities), and the marshmallow tasting pancakes with raspberry syrup and shaved chocolate!

We headed out to the post office and mailed a box to Mom of stuff that we didn't want to continue to carry around any longer, and then continued on to a shopping mall in search of bicycle gear for our REI bike tour which begins tomorrow. We didn't find any good bike gear, and decided that we would just have to extract our bicycle gear which we had shipped to our hotel but which has gotten snagged up in Czech customs before beginning our ride (please cross your fingers, we don't know how this will end up!). But we did successfully find an optician to fix Sean's sunglasses, and a Starbucks to get a Czech Republic mug.


We then made our way to the old town square to watch the astronomical clock ring noon. It was pretty neat.

We then walked up to the Jewish quarter, and then across Charles Bridge with all the lovely statues. We sat by the river and enjoyed a lunch made up of all the lovely meats and cheeses we had taken from breakfast.

We made our way back to our hotel where we checked on our drying laundry. We are now sitting a lovely little cafe on the square by our hotel, enjoying a liter of tasty Czech beer, and catching up on the internet. Tonight we will slurge and go out to a nice dinner.