Prague
to prague . Sept, 2001
beautiful view of prague from presidential palace walkup
another view of prague from presidential palace walkup
another view of prague from presidential garden walkup
another view of prague in presidential garden
another view of prague in presidential palace walkup
another picture of prague with me in it.
beautiful view of houses along the river.
St. Vitus Cathedral
side view of St. Vitus .
view of st. Vitus with gargoyles
view of st. Vitus with more gargoyles .
view of st. Vitus with more more gargoyles .
front upper view of st. Vitus .
side upper view of st. Vitus.
st. Vitus view of roof .
view of st. george which is behind st. vitus .
view of english style building next to st. george.
view of golden lane. alchemists lived here back in the day, trying to turn lead into gold. now it's all giftshops
Charles Bridge
east tower charles bridge
view of buildings on top of east tower
view of buildings on top of east tower. This one's got water running between the buildings
charles bridge picture taken from east tower.
picture of rich on roof top of east tower.
west tower charles bridge
Crucifix
Crucifix and saints
Here is a picture of me on charles bridge after an afternoon shower , and don't miss the rainbow.
charles bridge after an afternoon shower and a beautiful rainbow cast over the sky.
some histtorical building east of charles's bridge .
having a beer with friends at an outdoor cafe next to charles bridge.
alchie statue in the outdoor cafe
tables and buildings in the outdoor cafe
nice picture of rich and charles bridge in background
another nice picture of rich and charles bridge in background
picture of me and charles bridge in background
river view
river view
swans swimming in the river.
Subway Station
inside subway station .
waiting for the subway on platform .
view of platform with train .
going in to subway station .
going down the esclator .
going up the esclator .
The tunnels were dug with soviet technologies from fifties.
It's lot better than what we have in New York.
Presidental Palace
sean & rich sitting on castle wall.
path to down hill from presidental palace.
another path to presidental palace.
cannon tower used to guard the presidential palace.
doing a sidecrow in front of the presidential palace.
sean doing a handstand in front of the presidential palace
changing of palace guards .
me standing in front of a palace guard .
entrance to the presidential palace .
musicians singing, playing folk stuff in front of the palace .
tuxedo musicians singing, playing folk stuff in front of the palace .
The presidential
palace
goverment office buildings around castle area
building1 .
building2 .
building3 .
building4 .
view of palace castle from a giftshop.
Loreto The Clock Tower with it's seventeeen-century carillon. It's not too far from the presidental palace
bronze status of naked man crushed by skull . side view.... he's got balls too.
bronze status of naked man crushed by skull. front view
Palace Garden
terrace gardens like hill farms in south east asia. This was taking after an afternoon thunder shower.
sean relaxing on pluggable benches.
urinating stature .
ivy crawling up the palace .
ivy crawling up the palace... lions and monkies.
garden walkup
park on the foot going up to the palace.
sean chilling out on the bench .
Armory
picture of cannons from outside the gate.
another view of cannons from outside the gate. notice the walls are chiseled and painted over.
Old Town Square
clock tower of old town square at 4 o'clock. If you look closely you can see the mechanical figures inside the trapped doors.
another view of the clock tower
full view of the clock tower
view of our lady before tyn from clock tower
view of old town square from clock tower
full view of our lady before tyn from old town square
monument to St. Jan Hus , setup in 1915 to commemorate the 500th anniversary of his martyrdom.
resturants around old town square
internet access
lots of tourists go to bohemia bagels to get connected, expecially folks from back home
. including expats
i have seen roomate wanted ads on bullitn boards. And all kinds of stuff for sale too.
inside internet cafe bohemia bagels
more, inside internet cafe bohemia bagels
children's area . You'll need to take your shoes off
Bohemia bagels also has a backyard area. but it got too cold when were there.
city wonders
garbage pickup
can't going anywhere? tire lock
side walk mirror . that's me and rich
side walk mirror . that sean on the low right corner
stairway leading to the street.
river boat tolling some garbage.
street trash bins , big enough to be tents. I dunno, maybe people do live in there
out door market behind tesco super market.
another view of the out door market behind tesco super market.
czech campagin against smoking
close up , czech campagin against smoking
Threater ads for Czech Performances .
czech post office .
WWII soldier memorial. but looks like two toooo friendly guys getting together
Jewish Town
the only surviving synagogue in prague from before WWII
Me and golem
paved stone golem
The Legend of golem.
Wenceslas Square
view Charles IV. Roman Emperor
side view Charles IV. Roman Emperor
National Museum
national museum , view from wenceslas square.
inside national museum . the place looks palace.
US . Embassy
the American Embassy is to the west of charles bridge.
the Embassy plaque
Random Street Buildings or scenes
what's up with Europeans and denim jean jackets. So I brought mine.
We flew into prague 8am monday morning, Sept 3, 2001. We figured we should spend the day outside then to sleep in the hotel.
We wandered around the city and gotten lost. here is sean exhausted and sitting down on the bench. check out those zombie eyes.
Big yellowish street building.
Big pink street building.
Tesco supermarket around the corner from our hotel.
outside view of tesco supermarket again . no pictures allowed in the supermarket. I guess cezchs don't like tourists taking picture of them shopping grocery :)
tesco across the street.
being a patroitic czech .
narrow street after heavy rain.
pedestrians wondering around after heavy rain.
government office building after rain.
this has got to be the narrowist building in prague.
hmm....
building and tram tracks along side of the river
tram with passengers getting out
citibank ad in prague.
random people with random lives walking .
random street and us random wanderers .
random church .
random couple some how got in to my picture.
street with medival monument .
Powder Tower
The Powder Tower was built in the 15 Century. It was used as a storage place for gun powerder in the late 17 Century whcih the name came from. Originally it was a late Gothic tower built in honour of the newly elected King Vladislave Jaigello (1471-1516).
view of People's House
food
we ate at this resturant on the first day in prague
i had the egg salmon, potato soup, and butter fried river trout.
Boat Tour
We took a boat tour around the charles bridge area. Here is somebody sitting to the side of the drive way. I wondered how he got there.
river scene of prague from boat view.
here we met some of friendly locals. rich is playing with the couples puppy.
the guy said he went to University of North Carolina.
everybody and friends in the boat and looking out.
local artist who sells water color painting on charles bridge.
train station
train station
train station
inside train station
Hotel
we stayed at the Elite hotel. Every morning we would wake up at around 7:30am and head to the cafe for free breakfast. Breakfast was consisted of salty scrambled eggs, chopped cucumbers, chopped red bellpeppers, chopped tomatoes, and cereal.
The hotel had a lot of Elderly Italian and German tourists. I think this hotel made some deal with all the senior citizen bus tours in Europe.
We booked two rooms for our trip. the one bed room was on the first floor. the two bed room was on second floor. Here is a picture of rich in the two bed room.
Here is a picture of the painted high cealing .
Newwark Airport
random people .
sean and rich in airport cafeteria .
Prague International Airport
random people .
random day job .
me .
