The Czech Republic!

Continuing on...

3/17/2010
We've been in Prague two days now, and it's amazing. We had a walking tour of New Town and Old Town yesterday. This is Wenceslas Square, in New Town. Castle and shopping time today.

The history here is so incredible. Some buildings are from the 9th century, and most are from the 12th and 13th century, redone in Art Deco style with gilded decorations.

The shoppingn was pretty nice here - definitely in Eastern Europe, prices are a lot cheaper. I got some good presents for people (which you'll get at some point, I promise). For lunch, we went to this little restaurant, and had Czech pork ribs and mashed potatoes mixed with sauerkraut. It was amazing.

I spent some time today looking at the Jan Hus memorial today, it's this large statue in the middle of the Old Town Square. He's the guy who started the Moravian church, which is pretty cool. I haven't been able to find many books about it, though.

Tonight we sang at a small church out in a suburb. It was intense and amazing, but oh so beautiful.

Other pictures from Prague (I didn't write much while we were here):
The Astronomical Clock - so amazing. We sang "What a Wonderful World" right before it went off our first day in Prague.

Relics inside the Prague Castle of the Remnants of the Church of the Virgin Mary - built in the years 882-884.

This is the President of the Czech Republic. We saw him at the palace. :)

The next bunch of pictures are going to be of St. Vitus Cathedral. It was the first real cathedral that we sang at.








This next one is from when I went up in the Astronomical Clock - some of the views that I saw of Prague.





Next we visited Telc - actually part of Moravia! (Okay, well, it was.) It was this really quaint little medieval village. We had an hour and a half or so to get to explore, and I had the best pizza - "ketchup" sauce (not like ours), garlic, corn, broccoli, peppers, and all sorts of other veggies. Some pictures...
The facades were so cool - originally built like that to keep the town safe.

Just one of the little turrets still left from when it was a fortress.

Well, that's the Czech Republic! Austria's next!