It's very, very cold here, and I didn't bring enough warm clothes, so am grateful for the long under-leggings sportif I purchased yesterday [rather expensively.] I don't know how Czech women find anything interesting to wear, apart from lots of leather. A smallish Marks and Spencer has increased the available fashion-wear by about 70%, which says it all really. Terrific shoe shops though.
This morning i decided to be a tourist for a couple of hours and visited the castle/palace/cathedral complex across the river. By 9, busloads of Japanese and German tourists were already being unloaded. i went into the cathedral with a Lenten mass going on, a huge Gothic building, but where some bishop had been unable to resist adding gold topped columns and writhing Baroque statury. The stained glass windows were really magnificent, glass-work being such a local speciality. I then went to the undercroft of Prague Castle which had an interesting display of allsorts from bronze-age burials to 16th c grave clothes, i really wanted to see the great hall above, but my ticket didn't allow. I will have to go again, then coffee overlooking the city, and so home - across the Charles Bridge.
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