Monday, 3/16 We fixed our breakfast at the apartment - toast with jam and spread, bad tea, bread and home-made apple strudel. Ruth and Evan had left us railway tickets so we took the railway to a shopping district. Czechoslavakia had a pretty good railway system. We went shopping and had little pizzas for lunch from a Bistro. After a while we needed to use the facilities; which is always a problem in Europe. We were in a department store so we headed to their facilities, where we discovered that use of the toilets was free but we had to pay for toilet paper! Oh well, any port in a storm.

Randy and I took a tour of Prague. This is where Randy took some video of the beginning of the tour, then put the camera down by his side without turning it off. We have about 15 minutes of video of the sidewalks of Prague! 

We saw so many beautiful things that I will never be able to keep them straight. And all of my photos are awful, because they are old photos that I converted, badly, to another camera. Oh, well. I loved the charming painted facade on a house on Wenceslas Square. I don't know if it's old or not, but regardless, it's wonderful. 

The Prague National Museum is housed in an impressive structure. 

And, like Spain, some buildings are amazing even though they are probably stores. 

As usual, the older buildings and ornamentations were my favorites.

In fact, the older, the better.

Although some of the newer buildings are very attractive, also.

This lovely building, called the Archbishop's Palace, is on Hradčany square.

The St. Vitus Cathedral is a gorgeous old structure, from sometime in the mid 1300s. I love the attention to detail they did back then!

We did some more shopping, with the weather changing every half hour; it went from clear to rainy to snowy. We bought a crystal vase and some lovely brandy glasses that I was afraid to touch, from fear I would break them. Jimmy bought a couple of blue crystal sculptures; he's a bit of a connoisseur. We headed back to the apartment where Jim rested, before we headed out to what we know as the  Charles V Bridge. It's a long, lovely bridge, and  picturesque as all get out on a foggy evening. And a our end of the bridge, we found a good and inexpensive restaurant!