Prague Castle

We were able to find the Baha’i National Centre this morning and attend a meeting with the Prague Baha’is. It was great to meet new friends and discuss how the Baha’i community is doing in this country. We also met a couple from New Mexico, here on holidays, who also came to the meeting. It was wonderful.

We visited Prague Castle in the afternoon. We had great views of the city from the top of the hill. This is the biggest castle complex in the world, and is still used as the seat of government.

Within the castle grounds are different museums. One of them was a Toy Museum so we just had to visit it. They had an impressive collection of toys from all over the world. Of course there was an entire wing devoted to the Barbie phenomenon. Yasmin and Roya were in heaven!

After we dragged the kids out of the toy museum, we visited the stunning St. Vitus Cathedral, which took about 600 years to build. You can see the colours on the interior, created by sunlight shining through the beautiful stained glass windows. On the outside are numerous arches and spires topped with gargoyles and sculptures of saints.

We walked back down the hill by a different route and feasted our eyes on more spectacular views. Prague is really a beautiful city.

It started to pour rain when we got to the bottom of the hill and we were soaked in spite of our jackets. So after a quick supper we made our way to the subway and returned to the pension.

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