Musical love

Vivaldi's spring 

A castle garden

Saint Nicolas church (in the castle). There is also one in the old town where I saw my concert 

Jazz on the bridge.  These guys were in their seventies or eighties. Wow

I had a very full day today in Prague nicely rounded out with a concert of many great pieces including vicaldi's spring and the Ave Maria.  The musicians were all very professional and talented.  

Rewind, I started my day kinda early with a walk from my accommodation to the Charles bridge.  There were swans in the river Vltava and they appeared to be placed or hired for ambiance.  The cobble stoned streets around here are really like walking on a bunch of glued down marbles...dang it is difficult.  You gotta suffer to be interesting (and beautiful) ;) made it down to the bridge and I was surprised at how busy it already was at ten in the morning.  Then I made my way through the old town which is packed with churches and places of interest.  Found one church that I was considering for a concert but it was only organ and I needed a little more variety.  Next I made my way to the main square which has the astronomical clock and the other half of all tourists in Europe.  It was packed and I didn't get to see the apostles dance around on the hour bit I did find a guide to show me to an air conditioned bus.  Fantastic!  So I toured around for a few hours.  Stopped and ate lunch which was really a piece of sausage with mustard and no bread with some cucumber lemonade.  It was actually really good...I love good sausage and this place is crowded with it.  That sounds bad...the cheque men are not very good looking to me.  There must have even some inbreeding.  But they are really strong:)

After lunch I toured the castle and saw the outside of saint michaels church which is very gothic style and beautiful.  There are more things that I can't remember about it. well it's impressive anyway.  The castle is the biggest in Europe and my guide was very proud of that.  I didn't walk the entire grounds.  Infact I probably only did about a fourth cus I was sweaty and I can't have that.  After the castle, I caught my bus again and headed down to the funicular which is a mountain tram of sorts.  The cars are from the 80s so are quite boxy with really big windows which is great for the view of the lesser city (city below castle) and the old town.  I rested on a being at the top and after I made it back down, meandered across the Charles bridge again and all of the way to the Saint Nicholas church for my fantastic concert (it was even better than the one in Vienna and much more intimate). I met a little girl travelling with her mom and grandfather from Cyprus and I thought about how I want to do that one day with kids.  :). It was a lovely day and I did so much walking in the heat over cobble stones that I got a headache.  Don't worry I took two Advil and its subsided.  

Back to Berlin tomorrow!  Ill be back in California on Tuesday:) and :( I wish I had about a month longer for this trip.  

Good night and I love you all!