Czech Please

Prague, Czech Republic

June 15, 2010

Beautiful Prague

Prague, a city along the Vltava River (anybody have a vowel?), is filled with ornate architecture making it picturesque. We read in, "Travel Prague," a Mobile Reference guide, that Prague's nicknames have included, "city of a hundred spires." As the city had less damage during World War II than many other European cities it really retained much historic charm. The city and skyline, with a castle viewed in the background, is beautiful.

This blog finds me sitting in our Prague apartment looking out over a window box filled with red Geraniums while Paul and the kids are at a movie. Earlier today we got together with our nephew, named Paul Handly (can you believe there are two of them? Lucky world :o)) and his friend Jill, who are on a two week trip around Europe. (We met them under the old clock tower - built starting in the 1400s - a clock with a skeleton made of bronze (?) who rings the time. Two doors open on the clock tower and the Twelve Apostles spin by as gongs vibrate the air. )

We wandered through the old town streets together to a courtyard cafe for lunch. It was great catching up with Paul and Jill. We had seen them both when we started our trip as we flew from Virginia to San Francisco to visit (my) Paul's brother and family who live near San Fran before we headed out to New Zealand. Little did we know in January, in California, that the next time we would see our nephew, Paul, and Jill was in Prague, Czech Republic! While on our trip if we had stayed longer or shorter in any place or had picked other countries to visit entirely we wouldn't have seen them at all. Amazing how it all came together spontaneously! Seeing them was so fun.

Thinking of friends and family,

Jackie