The sun has been out, but it's still hardly summery
However, it was probably better walking around looking at things weather than if it had been very warm. So we wandered around downtown looking at buildings and street furniture (Cubist lamp-post!) and the inside bits of passages (Art Deco cinema!) and I took quite a number of photos - will see how these look when I have uploaded them.
Quite a planner's nightmare of stylistic juxtapositions - concrete Cubist bank building right next to Baroque church, 60s brutalism cheek by jowl with Art Nouveau, but it all adds to the interest.
Also did the Museum of Decorative Arts, where I was somewhat relieved to discover that the public exhibits (and very fascinating they are) occupy a smaller space of this large edifice than one initially imagines.
Don't think I've so far mentioned, apropos of our ultimately successful endeavour to hear some music in Prague, that although there are numerous posters and flyers around and that the Prague Experience website lists several concerts taking place daily, it's quite hard to find one that doesn't involve all or part of the Four Seasons. The vast majority are a bit lollipoppish generally and emphasis the historic settings where they occur. Could perhaps be the time of year? Perhaps I am being a bit of a music snob about this.
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