Summer of Slow Travel

         We spent the afternoon at a lovely Art Noveau Museum.   Then walked over the Charles Bridge and had a lovely dinner sitting by the river.  It had rained all day and then a bright shining sun came out.   

Sorry I lost my internet.  Here are the pictures.  I just kept thinking every window, alter, ceiling door was a project for a group of people who raised money and built them, and now that group is gone.           

this morning we started at the Jewish Museum.  There is a cemetery that was the onOh place Jewish people were allowed to be buried.  It was used from the 1300 to 1700.  There are 100,000people buried.   In layers.   The tombstones are as tight as you in see this…

So today I got to stay home due to a Gi discomfort   The rest of the team went to a modern art museum.   These are Max’s pictures.        as this is my favorite person in the whole world he brought me this picture.    And I did feel good…

We started our day yesterday with a walking tour.  Up to the Castle — which is a huge complex of many buildings and palaces.. The president lives in one, the Archbishop in another and lots of state functions are there.  We will have to go back to see the inside. …

this was the view from our hotel in Olomouc.   No complaints!     We took a speedy and very comfortable Private train to Prague.   Thank you Leo Express.   Our apartment is exactly as advertised…smack in the middle of the tourist district, but clean and cool. And it has a…

sorry.  Interrupted by dinner too– went to a pub, felt very American–except LOTS to potatoes options-French-fried, roasted, spicey-roasted and American baked. But we had 4 great steaks, salad and 6 beers for 60$.  Not what we are used to in CAlif. This church was a NEO-Gothic.  (I’m serious!).  The Gothic…

We hired a car to drive us here.  We are a little farther then half way to Prague.   Evidently the Polish and Czech trains don’t match.   We have heard this from several people and I have no idea what that means. This is a little lovely town.  Great…

Today was our last day in Kraków.   We went to the two prettiest places.   And it was sunny and lovely.    Wawel Castle is loved by the Polish people.   There were hundreds of school children there– most go twice in their elementary years.   The Polish state…

Salt has been mined here for hundreds of years.   Early in the 1900 some miners started making chapels in the mined areas, including making statues.  The mines are not active now–except for allowing tourists to walk 700 steps DOWN to see the chapels I don’t like being underground –but…