Praha

We got home around 2am last night, so I'm absolutely exhausted and not capable of downloading, editing and publishing photos tonight. But we had an absolutely amazing weekend, in spite of the cold weather. We both fell in love with Prague, and did not have nearly enough time to even scratch the surface of explorations there. We have decided we are definitely going back for another weekend within the next few months. The bigger things that we did included a three and a half hour walking tour, the Franz Kafka museum, taking the funicular tram up to the Petrin tower, a mini-version of the Eiffel Tower, to look out over the city, went to a classical music concert in one of the old palaces, and went birthday gift hunting among the garnet stores. Our 5-star hotel was in the famous Nerudova street, and is a restored 14th century house...we were in a junior suite on the top floor, so we had triangular ceilings with gorgeous exposed wood beams. (I had booked an "executive room" at an unbelievable off-season price, but when we got there, they told me they don't actually have executive rooms, so we had been automatically upgraded.)

We've decided to go to Budapest for Valentines weekend, will have to go to Paris to update W's Shengen visa in late Feb/early March, still need to reschedule my Barcelona reunion with Kavitha, and have two weeks in Cape Town for W's brother's wedding in May to look forward to, but we will definitely get to Prague again in the near future! I'll have more to say about Prague with the photos, but it is just stunningly gorgeous, and chock full of culture and history to explore.

Oooh, and almost forgot, Kristy's coming over for a visit in two weeks or so, woohoo!!!