Prague wth Mum

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It was a very busy week showing Mum around Prague, we stayed busy most days seeing the sights (mum has a taken home about 500 photos with her!!).  On New Years eve we visited the Castle, Old town & Vysehrad before heading out into the city for the crazy Czech fireworks!  Mum managed to squeeze in more fireworks on New Years Day, the Petrin tower, museum (held a gold bar), The Jewish museum/Old town shopping, Lennon wall, variety of crazy statues, a day out with Taylor, shopping with Allan, Zizkov tower, Asian markets and visited the kids schools.  She tasted some Czech cuisine at a local restaurant to realise that she isn't missing anything wonderful!  Mum was constantly taking photos of and admiring Czech dogs ... they are so well behaved.  She particularly enjoyed the dogs that carried their own leads or the owners who would just drop the leads outside shops and the dogs just stay, not to mention the ones on the metro or at the supermarkets!!  Overall it was a busy week and I can have a rest now that I'm back at school :+)    

Karlstejn Castle and Kutna Hora

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We have visited both Karlstejn Castle and Kutna Hora before but thought it was a good day trip for mum as both cities have cool stuff to offer.  Leo was happy to take mum of a tour of Karlstejn Castle and mum went for a tour of the Gothic Cathedral that took 600 years to build in Kutna Hora.  Unfortunately we didn't quite make it to the bone church which was something mum was interested in seeing, I guess she'll just have to come back :+)

Christmas 2013

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Because we were in the The Netherlands this Christmas and our car was full of people and luggage we decided to shift Christmas a few days back until the 30^th when we arrived home.  Luckily Corban and Leo didn’t notice a couple of extra days wait.  It was a simple Christmas, we didn’t eat the traditional Czech meal of carp and potato salad ... we opted for Salmon and mango salad, yum, yum!  The kids enjoyed opening their gifts and were kept busy playing for the rest of the day.  Thank you Nana & Granddad for putting money in everyone’s account!  Thank you Granddad and Terri for sending toys to play with and books to read!  Thank you Lisa for sending books to read and last but not least thank you Nanny for coming all the way to spend Christmas with us!     

Luxembourg

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Our final country/city for our Christmas holiday was Luxembourg.  This tiny country in nestled between Belgium, France and Germany.  We decided to take a slight detour on the way home because we have visited the 3 main cities in Paris, the capital of both Belgium & The Netherlands and don’t know if we will be back over this way!  The weather only just held off for us as we walked around the city with some lovely bridges, small cathedral and neat looking houses.  We didn’t do a tour and only stopped for a couple of hours.  We did learn that they still have a Royal family, that Luxembourg is only 2,586 square kilometres and has a population of about 524, 000 making it one of the smallest sovereign nations in Europe.