Day 46 - Wedneasday 2nd September

Day in Praha

After a short false start in the wrong direction we headed into the City by tram.  We walked up from Wenceslas Square into the old town, pausing to try the weird looking BBQed pastry "Trdlo" and then a second they were so good!!

 ... and then across Karl's bridge.  We climbed up the old gate tower for views over the city and back across the bridge.

 

Walked on towards the castle before stopping for lunch in an old hotel:

Well its the most liberal state in the EU - no smoking bans here, a long list of legal drug possession and the waiter decided to serve Ellie her first beer much to her (and our!!) surprise - at least it was a small one!  Don't worry she only posed with it before feeding it to the newly purchased clown puppets and handing it over to Daddy for a quick dispatch!!  Clowns posing above before and after their tipple.

Views of the City:

More views including the Castle and the astronomical clock in the Old Town Square:

Meet the gingerbread Merritt family:

Armed and dangerous... well not with those ice cream swords girls!  Is that a helmet with a built in tea strainer?

In the grounds of the castle, the Cathedral of St. Vitus was worth a look - lovely modern stained glass windows leaving beautiful reflections on the stonework:

And finally a trip around the town - and the Jewish quarter - by horse and cart.  To give our feet a rest before negotiating our way back to camp on the tram for another night of live music.  Rock/blues this time.