Medieval Weapons

What a bad way to go out.

Prague Castle

Prague castle is a disappointment after having visited Wawel castle in Krakow. It is more of a tourist trap than anything else. Of course the architecture and cathedral is beautiful but this can be said in reference to any European city really. The castle grounds lack the necessary elements that make it feel like an actual castle. No moat. No dragon. No turrets. No drawbridge. Once inside the walls it is mostly shopping.

Franz Kafka Museum

One of the best experiences of the trip.  I empathize with author Kafka (From one of the exhibitions):

The Civil Servant

The are common existential conflicts in the lives of all men which feed the background of ill ease that marks our culture.  The traditional discrepancy between vocation and profession is one of them.  For Franz Kafka, this conflict was catastrophic.  When he chose literature as the only possible terrain for his liberation, he was still a lawyer in the service of Austro-Hungarian bureaucracy.  The problem lay in the anguish that this double life caused him, the erosion that it meant for his organism. The tremendous tension that it involved.

Kafka revealed himself to be a singular example of the "double agent."  On the one hand at the service of the imperial bureaucracy, one of a brand of lawyers, in the world of bureaucrats, he himself was a candidate for the annual lawyer's convention he imagined in one of his short stories.  And at the same time, on His Majesty's secret service: literature. An activity which drained him of all his forces and drove him to become a representative witness of last century.

Now That's Art

I already contacted the artist to put up one of these fountains in the backyard of my future home.  A friend told me that the same artist did both works pictured.

Outside Prague Castle

The kid ran over to the guard and did a quick incorrect form 20 push-ups.  The group thought it was hilarious.  I think it would have been funnier if the guard would have broken rank and used the sharp end of his weapon to teach the funny man a lesson.  That would have been something to laugh at.

St. Vitus's Cathedral

Light Lunch

Old Town Square

"You guys been partying at Senior Frogs. My cousin and I been partying in the squares of Prague" - Max Garcia
Disney's inspiration?
Another language I unfortunately do not understand.

Everyone loves the astronomical clock.

Prague