Got to meet to my friend David in Paris:

A few pictures from the store:

yum :)

Given the nice weather, went back out to enjoy the city during "fete de la musique"

And after all these years and failing due to limited opening dates/times, I finally got to visit la tour St Jaaques:

Fantastic view from the top:

Since it was fete the la musique, I went around to several places to see performers:

Quick video summary of the music:

I had heard about Cesky Krumlov as a charming town with castle, but it's indeed a long ways from Prague, almost 3h each way, so it didn't happen last time I was in the area. But this time around, it worked out, and I figured it would make sense to get a tour from getyourguide with 5H to spend there, 2h were a so-so skipable fairly commercial guided tour that in hindsight I would have done without. It did help with getting oriented in the town, but it also burned 90mn needlessly that coudl have been better spent. Still, even with that more minor setback, there was enough time to enjoy most of the town and main attractions.

After arriving, we started with a walk around town:

Once back in the castle, a quick castle museum and castle tour:

Of course great views from up there:

After that there was a bit of time left to see town, but that time was running out and then it was time to get back to the bus back to Prague:

Flying to Prague worked through Frankfurt with Condor business, which was cheaper and not too bad:

Back to Prague for another Transmission at O2 Arena, a wonderful show

Welcome to Prague

I chose a Prague underground tour this time around, it was interesting as Prague used to be an entire floor lower, exactly like Seattle, and due to repeated flooding, they raised the entire city to the first floor. However, just like Seattle, you can visit the old ground floor in a few places:

Next, it was fun to go back to the top of the clock tower, which you can do by elevator:

After that I booked a river tour, one of the other things to do in Prague that I hadn't done before:

The next day, a quick tour of the castle and its majestic Vitus cathedral

Next, it was time to go back to the excellent Narodni reopened state museum:

Across the street a sister museum:

On that day, I also booked a communism and underground bunker tour, which was a pretty informative tour and story:

where the revolution started

There was a bit of time after that to go to the lego museum, now renamed museum of bricks because patents?

and just enough time left to see the Bansky Museum, which is definitely intriguing:

A few pictures left:

The last day was a full day tour to Day trip from Prague to Cesky Krumlov (clickme)