Prag: Czech Republic
We decided to park the car and take a couple of bicycles on rent. We did a bicycle tour with a tour guide. Our guide was from Australia, by far one of the most interesting personalities I have met in my life. Our man takes a flight from Australia to Prag, blows all his money in Prag, and stays back in Prag since he doesn’t have the money to buy a return ticket. But as far as I could say, he was no less happier than any average American with a lot of money. I for sure envy this guy. With his only qualification of knowing to speak English, he is spending the time of his life in Prag, while I slog all day just to take all my money and spend it on people like him in the 2 days I spend in Prag.
Meet my role model Luca:
Prag was a magical city with a lot of castles again. But this time the castles had the Russian influence. The red rounded domes on the top etc. Archana bought a lot of souvenirs. Check her out posing a jester hanging down on a spring. Still has a find a place in our home, but it sure did find a place on my blog.
One of the best parts of the roadtrip was the drive out of prag into germany. Acres and acres, or I should say, oceans and oceans of yellow flowers filled the side of the roads. Here is a view from one of the rest stations. This was the view for most of the 100 miles that we drove from Prag to Nuremberg.
The Czechs are truly a republic! Apparently the Czechs have been ruled over and over again by foreigners, they have a constant xenophobia. Check out the work of a local artist. A man peeing in a pool of water. If you look carefully, he is peeing into the map of the republic. There was no explanation for this anywhere. I extrapolated it as the sculptor’s freedom to go totally wild and carve out the most outcast ideas. He would have been prosecuted to even express such a thought under the Communism ruling.
For the same reason, most Czechs are, I am told, non believers. All the churches in the city are put to great use: tourism. It felt like walking in a fairy tale, with beautiful lightings on all the structures.
