Prague Trip (Day 2)

    Today we felt rested up from our flight and got our first real taste of the city. Since the jet lag has our sleep schedule all out of sorts, we figured that we would use that to our advantage and wake up extra early (because we were going to anyway) and do some dawn photography.
That is how we found ourselves on a river walk, overlooking the Vltava river that slowly meanders through the heart of Prague. The view opens up a stunning view of Prague Castle, which is crowned by the fantastic St. Vitus Cathedral at its center.

     With a little bit of patience, the rising sun bathed the castle in warm light and made for some lovely photos. Before the sun got too high, we hurried down to the famous, Charles Bridge and got some shots from another angle. The Charles Bridge is lined with 30, baroque style sculptures, and the head of the bridge features The Old Town bridge tower which looms over everyone passing beneath it. It is one of the important monuments that made Old Town Prague a UNESCO World Heritage Sight.

     After finishing up our morning sightseeing we made our way down to one of the many cafes and eateries that line the streets of Old Town and found a light breakfast and coffee, before heading to a market to buy some much needed supplies. Chiefly we needed a voltage adapter for some of our devices. While most people know that Europe uses a different style of plug for wall sockets, and that travelers will need an adapter for that, what many do not know is that Europe also operates on a higher standard voltage than we do in the States as well. This means that for devices like computers, which can handle either voltage, many other components, rechargeable camera batteries for instance, cannot, and require an additional voltage adapter. At any rate, we easily found what we needed and began to make our way back to our apartment when we came across a fantastic statue by famous/infamous local artist David Cerny, which features the head of the genius writer, Franz Kafka, divided into individually moving layers, which periodically reconverge to reveal the face of the man. The city is filled with Kafka related art, squares, businesses, and museums; and rightly so.
    We finally returned to the apartment and awaited the arrival of my mother-in-law and her boyfriend, who would be meeting up with us for a few days. We had a lovely dinner at a nearby restaurant in the Jewish Quarter and then finished the day where we began it, by walking down to the edge of the Vltava for a look at Prague Castle at night.