Praha, Masarykovo nadrazi

Masarykovo nadrazi train station at the lonely side.

Cinderella

When I'm not in Prague, we are most likely looking for Cinderella.

And we are having theme day on Daily City blogs on Saturday. Hope you'll like it :)

Stepanska street and Darling cabaret limousine

The most visible and know limousine in Prague. In the possession of Darling Cabaret, which is in the street parallel to Stepanska street, also leading to Wenceslas square.
Friend of mine has a limousine. He likes that he can work while traveling. The other friend goes to weddings etc. And the third one just wanted to have a limousine, no other reasons.

Prague Public transport ticket on your mobile phone

We have a great new thing in Prague's public transport system. You can buy your ticket simply by sending short message from your mobile phone. No need to buy it at a vending machine, to put all those coins inside it and then having the ticket validated in a validating machine. You just write "DPT", send it to the phone number 9020620 and few moments later you have the "SMS ticket" in your phone. Sure, it is a little dangerous when you run down the stairs to the metro station trying to write and send that message... but it is so much faster.

Night of the ad eaters

It was Night of the ad eaters on Friday and Saturday in Prague and you can see two necessary things here: the wristlet to access the cinema and the hand to shake after each ad (or to shake it in the rhythm of the ad's music :). They were playing this 6 hour marathon on all 10 screens of Palace Cinemas cinema simultaneously without a pause... only that there were a minute long "ad" for pause and when almost everybody went out the "ad" ended and the screening of regular ads continued. Well, we used it to go and see the accompanying program of the night. So no complains.

Municipal House

Municipal House in the background. In the inside they have new exhibition of Josef Lada paintings.

Christmas tree on Kotva store

Back from Slovakia after two days. With typical Christmas tree on the Kotva store. The couple standing below it kissed a second later I took this shot. And stopped kissing second before I made the second one.

Backstreet politicians

One of the backstreet near Old Town square. I was going round for years and never thought that this is an actual street. And it is. Even more, it saves you a few steps when you go from Old Town Square to places I usually go :)
Speaking of backstreet, do you know where Backstreet boys have their signing session on Thursday? (It is not in Prague, nor in Czech republic.)

Yellow Lamborghini at V Celnici street

V Celnici street is a little street that doesn't look so expensive at the first sight. But at the second you will find really luxury restaurants and fashion shops as well as the Prague Marriott Hotel here. So that Lamborghini is at the best spot.

I prefer book - Levne knihy

NO! I PREFER BOOK! - Levne knihy's ad facing one of their book stores at Wenceslas square. And this is a BIG ad. Levne knihy, translated to English Cheap books, is a book shop chain with, you guessed it, cheap books. They have their own line of classic literature and you can find some really good encyclopedia type of books here - often for a fragment of their original price. They have also a lot of old music CDs with classic, jazz, rock'n'roll and also some of the popstars of 80s and 90s whom most of the people wouldn't know today. They are usually from 50 to 150 Kc (that's roughly 2 to 5,50 Euro).
I'm saving the best for the last. They also have their own DVD line of classic films including such as from Francois Truffaut, Roman Polanski, Wim Wenders, Akira Kurosawa, Jean-Luc Godard, Pedro Almodóvar, Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini and films with Pierre Richard and Louis de Funès. Well, there are more. All of them for 99 Kc (about 3,70 Euro). These are the best Christmas gifts :)

By the way, what do you read now?
I'll start with mine's: Sue Townsend's The growing pains of Adrian Mole and Charles Bukowski's Hot Water Music.

November 17

November 17 is the Struggle for Freedom and Democracy Day in the Czech Republic. Which means that lot of people have a reason to make a gathering or a demonstration. The spot in the upper part of Wenceslas square is the usual place for it.

Blurred Prague Castle

Back in Prague after two days in Karvina. Snow is finally here in the Czech republic. I can tell after five hours night drive to Prague. Well, we were the lucky ones. Others waited for hours at the roads jammed by a dozens and dozens of trucks unable to climb them.

Horses at Jana Palacha square

They are quite common here. And popular, too. The main "station" for these horses and carriages is at Old Town square from where you can go on a romantic old-fashioned ride around the historic Prague.

Prague is gold at night

This building looks fabulous at night. Even much better than in the photo.

Vaclav Spala gallery at Narodni trida street

Vernissage at Vaclav Spala gallery at Narodni trida street. At least I think it was a vernissage. It looked like it.

My favourite steps near Prague castle

One from the summer archive: my favourite steps at Prague castle.
There's a pub at the top (you can sit outside and just enjoy the atmosphere) and at the bottom starts Nerudova street. With Prague castle around the corner.

Vlrava river, Strelecky island and Petrin hill

Vltava river, Slovansky island to the left, Strelecky island right in front and Petrin hill on the horizon.

PS: Slovansky island to the left is the place where we play petangue (when the weather is not so cold = in summer).

Lights at Tesco - Christmas is coming

There's a Tesco store at Narodni trida street. It has a grocery store underneath. And when you take the escalator to get up above the ground, this is the exact view you will see. I had to take a picture. It felt so... Christmas :)

Night soccer at Mala Stupartska

It's so cold outside and these guys are playing soccer (or football as we say here) in t-shirts and shorts.
This playground belonged to my high school and we used to play soccer and volleyball here. Those were good times :) It's at Mala Stupartska street and just a side note: Roxy, one of the most known club in Prague, is just around the corner.

Slavia cafe and National theatre

Slavia cafe may be Prague's most known cafe. Although cafe Le Havre - about 2 minutes from here, also at Narodni trida street, which is the street with the tram in the picture - is more popular these days. There's only one thing better in Slavia: the view on Prague castle. And that building on the right is National theatre.

Prague Orloj and Old Town square

Well, this is it: Prague Orloj at Old Town square. Ten minutes after The Walk of the Apostles. Fifty minutes to the next show. There' s a lot of information on this Astronomical clock... but only for those who know. Like guys at Wikipedia :) Just read more about Prague Orloj there.

Full house every hour - Prague Orloj

There's a crowd every hour. Everybody wants to see how Prague Orloj, or Prague Astronomical Clock, at Old Town square works. It is quite spectacular if you keep in mind that all that show is here since the 15th century.

Well, this video on YouTube would show you more.

There's one more video where you can see the in front of Prague Orloj. It's mine :) and I took it during a friends wedding. You can see it on YouTube, too.

Saturday morning work talk

Well, if bus drivers weren't working on Saturday morning I would have a really long and tough walk. Here they are, having their morning schift talk, coffee and cigarette.

Smichovske nadrazi station.

Babylonia of Colors

One of the back streets near Narodni trida street. It kind of goes around a church which is to the left here. And Babylonia is sauna and fitness place as I just found out with a little help from my friend Google.

Night ballet lessons

They have ballet lessons here. He stayed at the window only for a few seconds. Then he jumped away. Ballet is a hard work.

Blue in Red - The Colour blue Theme day

It's a theme day at Daily city blogs today! And the theme is The Colour blue. I picked this photo of Swarovski shop near Old Town square because of their blue decorations. I think this should work for "The Colour red" day, too. But I missed that one months ago. Just for your info: they sold Versace here more than ten years ago when Versace was at its top. But that is not important now. Lets go visit the other participants in this blue theme day:

Boston (MA), USA - Cleveland (OH), USA - Philadelphia (PA), USA - Arlington (VA), USA - Cape Town, South Africa - Portland (OR), USA - Sequim (WA), USA - Selma (AL), USA - Arradon, France - Petaling Jaya (Selangor), Malaysia - Stockholm, Sweden - Singapore, Singapore - Wassenaar (ZH), Netherlands - Phoenix (AZ), USA - Seattle (WA), USA - Toulouse, France - The Hague, Netherlands - Moscow, Russia - Fort Lauderdale (FL), USA - Kyoto, Japan - Tokyo, Japan - Saint Paul (MN), USA - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - Stayton (OR), USA - Maple Ridge (BC), Canada - Detroit (MI), USA - Crystal Lake (IL), USA - Port Angeles (WA), USA - Cottage Grove (MN), USA - Nelson, New Zealand - Bandung (West Java), Indonesia - Greenville (SC), USA - Hyde, UK - Radonvilliers, France - Albuquerque (NM), USA - Nashville (TN), USA - Manila, Philippines - Port Vila, Vanuatu - Saarbrücken, Germany - New Orleans (LA), USA - Bellefonte (PA), USA - Melbourne, Australia - Hobart (Tasmania), Australia - Forks (WA), USA - Wichita (Ks), USA - Barton (VT), USA - St. Louis (MO), USA - Joplin (MO), USA - Chandler (AZ), USA - Quincy (MA), USA - Setúbal, Portugal - Inverness (IL), USA - Christchurch, New Zealand - Toruń, Poland - North Bay (ON), Canada - Le Guilvinec, France - Chateaubriant, France - London, England - Minneapolis (MN), USA - Naples (FL), USA - Norwich (Norfolk), UK - Sydney, Australia - Austin (TX), USA - Mumbai, India - Boston (MA), USA - Santa Fe (NM), USA - Menton, France - Monte Carlo, Monaco - Paderborn, Germany - Montréal (QC), Canada - Jackson (MS), USA - Stavanger, Norway - Orlando (FL), USA - Grenoble, France - Cheltenham, UK - Forks (WA), USA - Mexico City, Mexico - West Sacramento (CA), USA - Silver Spring (MD), USA - Weston (FL), USA - London, UK - Jefferson City (MO), USA - Ocean Township (NJ), USA - Belgrade, Serbia - Paris, France - Shanghai, China - Montego Bay, Jamaica - Montpellier, France - Saint Louis (MO), USA - Wailea (HI), USA - Rabaul, Papua New Guinea - Auckland, New Zealand - Evry, France - New York City (NY), USA - Nottingham, UK - Las Vegas (NV), USA - Oslo, Norway - Minneapolis (MN), USA - American Fork (UT), USA - Cypress (TX), USA - Haninge, Sweden - Trujillo, Peru - Trujillo, Peru - Melbourne (VIC), Australia - Saint-Petersburg, Russian Federation - Durban, South Africa - Brussels, Belgium - Anderson (SC), USA - Budapest, Hungary - Wellington, New Zealand - Prague, Czech Republic - Saigon, Vietnam - Ystad, Sweden - Miami (FL), USA - Seoul, South Korea - Hong Kong, China - Melbourne, Australia - Baziège, France - Greensboro (NC), USA - Sharon (CT), USA - Kajang (Selangor), Malaysia