By rubbing these plates on the Charles Bridge it's said you'll return to Prague before you die.

Take a loaf and divy it into whatever size you please. Some of the Czech shops also sell bread rolls that are quite filling for 1.90 crowns (0.05 euros).

I find this very cool. It's a synagogue that look like a mosque. The reason is the Moorish muslims of Iberia were enlightened in their attitude toward other faiths, at a time when few other places made Jews feel safe, so the Jews that later came to Prague lived happily under the Caliphate of Córdoba
long enough to pick up a few architectural tricks.

Just beside the lame Prague clock is a doorway to the church that almost no one pays attention to by which I reckon has to be one of the coolest doors I've ever seen. Imagine that being the door to your house. Ka-BOOM! Welcome, fools.

Pražský orloj

Prague's astronomical clock is astronomically disappointing. People stand there for over thirty minutes to see it come to life and when it finally does, the figures' limbs shift all of two inches like broken Disney animatronics, the little rooster jerks its stupid wings, and you see the tourists who've been waiting all that time die a little inside.

The four figures along the top are the fears of the Church. There's Vanity, checking himself out in a mirror, as Vanity does. There's the Jewish moneylender. Death of course. Then on the end the Turkish muslim who lures you from the Lord with his sweet sweet songs.

The Náměstí Míru escalators

When I got in to Náměstí Míru I started running up the steps, excited to be here, before I figured either someone had drugged me on the train or this was the world's longest escalator. Turns out it's the third longest: 88 m. The first and second are in the Moscow and Kiev metros. 142 m in Moscow, with no bathroom breaks.

These old Soviet automobiles remind me of the kind of thing you draw when you're a kid: eight right angles with two circles whacked across the bottom. I hear they run like rubbish too. This one was parked outside my hostel in Prague. But I don't know, with some silver chrome and a red paint job...

There's a similar drink in The Bahamas called Vita Malt. It was my favorite as a kid so I was overjoyed to find this in the laundrymat in Berlin. Das Original.

A sunny afternoon sat by the park.