Three opera houses in Prague
My first visit to Prague was on the 10,959th day of my life, or so I used to think. Actually it was only the 10,958th day, as I have since Read More …
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The ten thousand nine hundred and fifty ninth day
This is a story about my thirtieth birthday that I wrote a few years later. Copyright © 1975 by Remington Review, Inc. As a young man I don’t think I Read More …
Bicycle tour of Prague
When I was in Prague there were two companies, City Bike and Praha Bikes, which offered guided bicycle tours of the city. Both companies made a friendly and competent impression Read More …
Franz Kafka Museum
This unusual and wonderfully creative museum consists of a long-term exhibition called “The City of K., Franz Kafka and Prague”, which originated in another city entirely, namely Barcelona, where it Read More …
Smetana statue and museum in Prague
This statue of the composer Bedřich Smetana (1824-1884) is appropriately located on the right bank of the Vltava River, perhaps better known internationally by its German name Moldau. Behind the Read More …
Muzeum Antonína Dvořáka
This baroque two-story house was built in Prague at the beginning of the 18th century. It is now a museum devoted to the life and works of the Czech composer Read More …
The Kepler Museum in Prague
From 2009 to 2017 there was a small museum in a little passage near the east end of Charles Bridge, at Karlova 4, in a house where the German astronomer Read More …
Pražský hrad = Prague Castle
Prague Castle is on a low hill overlooking the city. It claims to be “the largest coherent castle complex in the world,” with an area of almost 70,000 m². When I Read More …
Prague Castle: St. Vitus Cathedral
Before visiting his cathedral, all I knew about St. Vitus was that there is a disease named after him, St. Vitus dance, otherwise known as Sydenham chorea, in which the Read More …
Prague Castle: The Old Royal Palace
The second Prague defenestration took place here in the Old Royal Palace in the year 1618, when a group of angry Protestants bribed their way into the castle and threw Read More …