Retracing Our Step

We spent a weekend going back through Old Town which we did when we first arrived. Although some photos might look similar we have a better understanding/knowledge of the things we are seeing and still seeing many new sights. We had to laugh at a few things, Leo particularly like the men statues ... he responded with "look they're weeing!" A few nights ago Taylor showed us a funny random picture on facebook of a narrow stairway with a stop and go walking signal ... much to our surprise we walked past the exact place in the weekend! Hilarious, it's just a walkway to a resturant on the river. The big statue of the king is 'King Charles IV of Bohemia'. Basically he was the King over a really big area Bohemia (large part of Europe), the Roman Empire, Italy etc Prague was the capital at the time. He was the person who built the 'Charles Bridge'that you see in many photos of Prague. Sigmund Freud is the statue hanging from the building, I think it is supposed to symbolise mans helplessness in the modern world or something like that. The enormous metronome was built after a giant monument of the former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin was blown up. Is symbolises the movement between good and bad leadership. There is living history everywhere we go, it is amazing how much we are learning all the time.

Monument that was blown up before metronome was built, apparently it stood about as high as the Jesus statue in Brazil.