Saturday, November 10, 2007

Spires, towers, and other tall pointy things

Today's itinerary includes:
  • Continuation of yesterday's tour of the Musuem of Communism. I arrived an hour before they closed, but they told me I can come back this morning. There was a video clip that showed the 1960's protests against the Stalinist regime, and the 1989 revolution that overthrew the Russians, both occurred in Wenceslas Square and a block from the museum. The musuem itself is wedged between a casino and Mc Donalds. Ironic.
  • Climb tower #4 on Petrin Hill. My goal right now is to climb a tower a day, and so far I'm hitting that. I climbed the same tower in Old Town Square yesterday no less than 3 times - Climb #1: Once at the top, I saw a squished penny machine, but I did not have change and neither did people around me. Climb #2: So I went back down to ask the ticket booth if they can give me change, but they didn't have any either, so I thought I'd go back up and see if there are new tourists bulging with change and ended up teaching a group of Italian tourists how one of these machines worked, it was a masterpiece in mime I tell you. Still no change to be found, so I climbed back down. Climb #3: Once downstairs, I realised that I had lost my gloves, so I climb upstairs in search of my gloves. No gloves. I think it was pinched, but no big deal. I headed over to a department store on Wenceslas Square and bought myself a pair of soft, warm MITTENS. Hahahahahaha!!!! I shall have my mittens yet! Got a matching fuzzy hat while I was at it, a bit more stylish now sans pom.
  • Walk through Gold Lane in the Castle Quarter, which I did not get to do because they were charging for admission and it is free after 4pm. Also looking forward to a nice stroll through Charles Bridge at dusk.
  • Classical music concert in the St. Martin of the Wall church this evening.

And then I take the train to Vienna tomorrow. Already am starting to miss Praha. boohoo.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Oh! Sans-Pom sooo sad :-(
YAHOO -- GET THOSE PENNIES!!!
Juanny

Anonymous said...

CJL -- Just got back from Miami (Art show went fabulous), but more importantly ... got us the elongated pennies from Bayside Mall (7 designs), the Miami Metro Zoo (of course you'd be proud 'cause I scammed my way in for free "just to use the penny machines" scattered about the entire zoo - 8 different designs), and the Miami Seaquarium on Key Biscayne (also scammed free entrance for penny machine usage only, but had to pay for parking - 8 pennies and 4 quarters - YEAH!).
Juanny