Where to stick the selfie stick and take a picture of that.

I am not sure the last time I was in Prague but in the 90’s so after the Velvet Revolution but not long after. Prague was known to the world but it was still incredibly cheap back then and not as crowded (even in March) but fantastic nonetheless.

I remember that the maps were the old communists ones and very hard to follow but now with Google Maps and smart phones it is so easy to get around.  Another thing was that 90% of the tourists didn’t have those stupid fecking selfie sticks that seem to be everywhere.

Prague as always was amazing and I would come back in a heartbeat. 

Prague's Jewish Cemetery and Prague Castle

I am not sure why I always seem to end up in the Jewish Quarter if there is one when I travel. I guess the fascinating and often sad history. I went to the Jewish Quarter today and stumbles into an Alchemist Museum that was quite fascinating. There was an underground tunnel going back to the 10^th century that Alchemists were using in the 16^th Century. Alchemist were often persecuted by the church and had to keep their craft a secret.

Jewish Cemetery.

The Old Jewish Cemetery (lies in the Josefov, the Jewish Quarter ofPrague in the Czech Republic. It was in use from the early 15th century (the oldest preserved tombstone, the one of Avigdor Kara, dates back to 1439) until 1787. Its ancestor was a cemetery called "The Jewish Garden", which was found in archaeological excavations under the Vladislavova street, New Town.

The numbers of grave stones and numbers of people buried there are uncertain, because there are layers of tombs. However, it has been estimated that there are approximately 12,000 tombstones presently visible, and there may be as many as 100,000 burials in all. The most notable personalities buried in the Old Jewish Cemetery are Yehuda ben Bezalel known as the Maharal Rabbi Löw (d. 1609), Kli YakarShlomo Ephraim of Luntchitz (d. 1609), Mordechai Maisel (d. 1601), David Gans (d. 1613) and David Oppenheim(d. 1736).

It is not clear when exactly the cemetery was founded. This has been the subject of discussion of many scholars. Some claim that the cemetery is over 1000 years older than the accepted date, which is the first half of the 15th century. The oldest grave belongs to the Prague rabbi and poetAvigdor Kara from 1439. It was founded by the king Ottokar II of Bohemia.

 According to halakhah, Jews must not destroy Jewish graves and in particular they are not allowed to remove the tombstone. This meant that when the cemetery ran out of space and purchasing extra land was impossible, more layers of soil were placed on the existing graves, the old tombstones taken out and placed upon the new layer of soil. This explains why the tombstones in the cemetery are placed so closely to each other. This resulted in the cemetery having 12 layers of graves.

Prague Castle.

I think it is the largest castle in the world and one of the oldest. There are parts of the original wall that goes back to 800 AD.

he history of the castle stretches back to the year 870 with the construction of its first walled building, the Church of the Virgin Mary. TheBasilica of Saint George and the Basilica of St. Vitus were founded under the reign of Vratislav and his son St. Wenceslas in the first half of the 10th century.

The first convent in Bohemia was founded in the castle, next to the church of St. George. A Romanesque palace was erected here during the 12th century. In the 14th century, under the reign of Charles IV the royal palace was rebuilt in Gothic style and the castle fortifications were strengthened. In place of rotunda and basilica of St. Vitus began building of a vast Gothic church, that have been completed almost six centuries later.

During the Hussite Wars and the following decades, the castle was not inhabited. In 1485, King Ladislaus II Jagello began to rebuild the castle. The massive Vladislav Hall (built by Benedikt Rejt) was added to the Royal Palace. New defence towers were also built on the north side of the castle.

A large fire in 1541 destroyed large parts of the castle. Under the Habsburgs, some new buildings in renaissance style were added. Ferdinand Ibuilt Belvedere as a summer palace for his wife Anne. Rudolph II used Prague Castle as his main residence. He founded the northern wing of the palace, with the Spanish Hall, where his precious art collections were exhibited.

The Second Prague defenestration in 1618 began the Bohemian Revolt. During the subsequent wars, the Castle was damaged and dilapidated. Many works from the collection of Rudolph II were looted by Swedes in 1648, in the Battle of Prague (1648) which was the final act of the Thirty Years' War.

The last major rebuilding of the castle was carried out by Empress Maria Theresa in the second half of the 18th century. Following his abdication in 1848, and the succession of his nephew, Franz Joseph, to the throne, the former emperor, Ferdinand I, made Prague Castle his home.

In 1918, the castle became the seat of the president of the new Czechoslovak Republic T.G. Masaryk. The New Royal Palace and the gardens were renovated by Slovenian architect Jože Plečnik. In this period the St Vitus Cathedral was finished (on September 28, in 1929). Renovations continued in 1936 under Plečnik's successor Pavel Janák.

On March 15, 1939, shortly after the Nazi regime strong-armed former Czech President Emil Hacha (who suffered a heart-attack during the negotiations) to hand his nation over to the Germans, Adolf Hitler spent a night in the Prague Castle, "proudly surveying his new possession."[2] During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia in World War II, Prague Castle became the headquarters of Reinhard Heydrich, the "Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia". He was said to have placed the Bohemian crown on his head; old legends say ausurper who places the crown on his head is doomed to die within a year. Less than a year after assuming power, on May 27, 1942, Heydrich was attacked by British-trained Czech soldiers while on his way to the Castle, and died of his wounds (which became infected) a week later.

 After the liberation of Czechoslovakia, it housed the offices of the communist Czechoslovak government. During the Velvet Revolution,Alexander Dubček, the leader of Czechoslovakia during the Prague Spring, appeared on a balcony overlooking Wenceslas Square to hear throngs of protesters below shouting "Dubček to the Castle!" As they pushed for him to take his seat as president of the country at Prague Castle, he embraced the crowd as a symbol of democratic freedom.

After Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the castle became the seat of the Head of State of the new Czech Republic. Similar to what Masaryk did with Plečnik, president Václav Havel commissioned Bořek Šípek to be the architect of post-communism Prague Castle's necessary improvements, in particular of the facelift of the castle's gallery of paintings.

Victims of the Holocaust. Every wall has 1000's of names.

Jewish Cemetery

In the Jewish Quarter

Oh Baby

Funny Condom 

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The Lovely Casa de Activos Toxicos

Charles Bridge Good Ol Fashion Hoedown

Magical and Amazing Prague

Prague

Jesus, I have not drank this much beer since I banged Lucille Ball back in the 50’s. This is my second day in Prague and third time here and it is just as mesmerizing and enchanting every time. A magical city with an amazing vibe. Seems every narrow, medieval street has a great feel to it. If there is such thing as having a favorite bridge and God knows we all have one mine would be Charles Bridge in Prague.

Every City needs a balloon tree. 

This is a manhole cover

Very easy to touch arse (or a moon landing) 

The majestic Charles Bridge

The homeless people almost lie prostrate here. Adds to the medieval feel 

On Charles Bridge

Magic

The Charles Bridgeis a famous historic bridge that crosses the Vltava river in Prague, Czech Republic. Its construction started in 1357 under the auspices of King Charles IV, and finished in the beginning of the 15th century.^[2]The bridge replaced the old Judith Bridge built 1158–1172 that had been badly damaged by a flood in 1342. This new bridge was originally called the Stone Bridge (Kamenný most) or the Prague Bridge (Pražský most) but has been the "Charles Bridge" since 1870.^[2] As the only means of crossing the river Vltava (Moldau) until 1841, the Charles Bridge was the most important connection between Prague Castle and the city's Old Town and adjacent areas. This "solid-land" connection made Prague important as a trade route between Eastern and Western Europe.

The bridge is 621 m long and nearly 10 m wide, resting on 16 arches shielded by ice guards.^[2] It is protected by three bridge towers, two of them on the Lesser Quarter side and the third one on the Old Town side. The Old Town bridge tower is often^[vague] considered to be one of the most astonishing civil gothic-style buildings in the world^{[according to whom?]}. The bridge is decorated by a continuous alley of 30 statues and statuaries, most of them baroque-style, originally erected around 1700 but now all replaced by replicas.

 And just so you know that is my own writing and observations and I did not just copy that from Wikipedia.

Gone are the days of exceptionally cheap Prague but that does not subtract from is splendor at all.