What does one do in a city on a rainy Sunday? One goes to the museum, of course! Along with what seemed to be most of Prague's population, we too stood in a long queue in order to enter the national museum this morning, after having taken about an hour to get there by public transport (it was probably less, but that's how it seemed). The museum itself was fine as museums go, although a bit more boring than usual. It didn't help that all of the explanations regarding the exhibits were in Czech (doh). The building itself was magnificent, and we had difficulty in believing that it had been built especially as a museum; I was convinced that it had been a palace which had been converted, as both the internal and external architectures were amazing.
Later on in the afternoon, it stopped raining, so I went out for a stroll down a street which we had not visited since the first day when we bought a sim card. Down at the far end of the street (10-15 minutes from the hotel) was an open-air market selling food and trinkets, and about 500 metres past this market was ... the museum! We probably could have walked there in 20 minutes, had it not been raining.
In the evening, we took a bus to the centre of the old city, walked to the Charles Bridge, crossed it and then drank hot chocolate in a cosy cafe while waiting for night to come. Walking back, we were disappointed by the poor lighting on the Charles Bridge, but other buildings were well lit. The streets and cafes were well-populated; not as full as they are at 3pm, but much fuller than at 9am.
Here ends the broadcast from Radio Prague.
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