Some shots inside the castle. Here's a neat door into a spiral staircase.
Heather's making her way across a huge hall, suitable for banqueting.
Somewhere on the castle grounds.
These pictures are from Golden Lane, just past the Castle Cathedral. One of these is where Kafka lived. At one time, the Castle complex was used largely for storage, and the area around it was quite poor. Now of course, this street is used for tiny tourist shops selling all kinds of crafty stuff. It really does have the sort of miniature feel that these pictures suggest.
Two shots of Heather outside the Cathedral. It was gorgeous inside, too, but no photos allowed.
We made our way up to the Castle via the Funicular train, then hiked around the hills above Prague towards the castle.In this picture, everything to the left of the Cathedral is part of the Castle grounds: it's really a vast place. To the right is the rest of the city down on the river.
Every building in this shot is part of the Castle grounds. Now, it's high-rent living spaces, embassies, and some businesses. Behind all of this is a sort of town square, also in the Castle grounds.
Views from the Castle out over Prague.
The Charles Bridge is the center of the city for pedestrians, tourists, various sellers of cheap tourist stuff, buskers, and probably pickpockets. This picture really doesn't do it justice; it's quite big, all brick,with statues along the sides. And it is crowded. Heather said it felt like leaving a baseball game, with everyone borne along in the same direction by the force of the crowd. It was nice to be there when it was as empty as it was in this shot.
And here's the river that the Charles bridge crosses.
We took some pictures of places with names that I can't remember, but which sure are pretty. This place looked like a theater, but I think it was a worker's union of some kind in the past.
The little decorations on Prague buildings were remarkable. Here's a platypus of all things, done in gold, about four stories up. Shot with the digital zoom, so it's kinda fuzzy.
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