Život v Cizine (was La Vie Expatriée)
I'm finally satisfying a long-held dream of living abroad.
Having started in France, I've now moved on to the Czech Republic.
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Pottery Making Market at Nelahozeves
While I was at Prague Castle on Saturday, in my failed attempt to get a look at the Czech Crown jewels, I happened to run across a flyer advertising a "Pottery Making Market at Nelahozeves". Nelahozeves is a Renaissance château a little ways north of Prague; it's been restituted to the Lobkowicz family. The town of Nelahozeves is also known for being the birthplace of Antonín Dvořák. So, on Sunday, rather than get up at some ungodly hour to stand in line at Prague Castle, I took the train up the river to Nelahozeves.
There were several dozen stalls, in the outer courtyard, in the approach to the château, and in the inner courtyard, most, but not all, of which were selling pottery or ceramics. There was also a grassy area which was mostly dedicated to games and demonstrations. And, of course, plenty of (not too outrageously overpriced) food and drink. This being the Czech Republic, there was sausage and potato pancakes and goulash and beer.
They were also running the regular tour of the château. There was no English language tour, though; instead, they gave me a pamphlet with the English text of the tour and sent me off with a Czech group.
Since I was in the neighborhood, I wanted to get a look at Dvořák's birthplace, but it's open only alternate weekends, and this wasn't one of those weekends. (You'd really think they couldn't have coordinated this better!).
I took enough photos that, rather than include them in this posting, I've put them into a slideshow.
Labels: Dvorak, Nelahozeves, Prague, sightseeing, slideshow
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Monday, August 06, 2007
Prague Slideshow
Ya know, sometimes one of the reasons that I hold off on posting is because I have all these photos piled up, and so I wait 'til I get them formatted, then I have to think about how to weave them into a coherent narrative, and it's just all so daunting that I put it off and put it off and put it off...
So, I'm just going to put up this little slideshow, mostly from a walking tour I took of Prague, and then I can just get on with posting about life here without having these photos hanging over my head!
Labels: buildings, Prague, sightseeing, slideshow, travel
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