A different Christmas

Hi Anna

It's  a bit past 11pm and I thought I'd do a blog on our last night in Prague before we head to Vienna tomorrow morning.

This morning we woke up bleary eyed and half mumbled Merry Christmas to each other and got excited about our Christmas breakfast. It wasn't anything different to the last couple of days, but it was an excuse to drink sparkling wine for breakky and in my case, to stuff myself silly with shortbread and gingerbread cookies.

We took our time and at around noon we went to see two separate exhibitions by Salvador Dali and Alfons Mucha. I have never seen works of these artists in real life before and I am glad we had the chance to. Two very contrasting art techniques and style. As usual, I got really inspired to draw and be 'artsy' and I promise to draw more when I get back. That is going to be one of my New Year's resolution :)

Here's some photos from the Dali exhibition. Although I enjoyed both of the exhibitions, I was more fascinated by Dali.

A bust of Salvador Dali

Section of his painting. I think it is suppose to depict a gramophone but if you look closer, there are bacon and eggs on a plate

Another version similar to his famous The Persistence of Memory.

He seems like one eccentric and quirky character. A lot of his things are rather bizarre and I'm totally fascinated how he came up with some of these things.

We spent the rest of the day back at the hotel relaxing and watching movies on tv. It was a rainy day and neither of us felt like getting out and about and I've been pining for a Christmas movie. Unfortunately there were none on and I caught the ending of The Rebound and The Bounty Hunter. How random! I really wanted to watch something Christmassy.

However, in the evening we went to watch the Prague Royal Orchestra play. We decided spontaneously to buy the tickets when we were out for the art exhibitions because we thought it'd be a lovely way to end our last night in Prague and Christmas day.

The concert went for an hour and it was a real treat to listen to them play pieces by Mozart and Vivaldi. It was a small orchestra and the hall was quite small, but I was captured by the music and mesmerized by the violinist's fingers dancing up and down their instruments. It was the perfect way to end our Christmas day!

That's all for now. Next post will be coming from VIENNA!!!!

I want to wish you a Merry Christmas from the bottom of my heart

o<]:o) MERRY CHRISTMAS }=:o)

Merry Christmas my lovely Anna, friends, family and anyone else who is reading this! As I type things that comes to mind this Christmas for me are:

gingerbread.shortbread.Christmas trees.snow. berries.lights. chimneys.

Growing up I've never celebrated Christmas and for once in my life I am experiencing a cold Christmas and it is a magical experience! It was snowing in Nuremberg but not in Prague tomorrow. I can understand why children in movies wish for snow on Christmas eve/ morning and for once I'm  just like one of those children wishing that it will.

Did you know the Czech major celebration is actually on Christmas Eve? Lots of things were closed for today so we we had a really relaxed day. It wasn't too cold to start off with but towards the afternoon it became really windy. We had our buffet breakky and I ate one too many shortbread cookies and had to refrain from eating too much because we had our lunch booking at 1pm.

Before our lunch, we walked to the Dancing Building that HW really wanted to see. She was fascinated by this building and took hundreds of photos of the building. I thought she was mad when approximately an hour ago, after looking through her photos, declared that she didn't think she took a single decent photo of the building. Apparently not the right angle. She makes me laugh. Seriously. The only angle she missed was probably from a bird's eye view!!!

HW's favourite building in Prague

Making fun of HW and pulling a dance move

The other side of the river

Lunch was at Cafe Coloure. We have seen almost everything we wanted to and were more than happy to sit down and enjoy our food with time not being an issue. We were very pleased with our pick and the food and service was great!

HW had the turkey with chestnut sauce. I had the pork schnitzel and the most amazing mashed potato! Note to self: add fried shallots into mash.

And of course DESSERT! A meal is not complete without something sweet.

Raspberry cream cheese cake. It was more cream than cheese texture but it was delicious!

That was my Christmas outfit. Haha! Thanks to packing light, I will be wearing the same thing for tomorrow. We have no plans for tomorrow apart from checking out a Salvador Dali exhibition. There has to be some drinking involved so maybe sparkling wine for breakky or some mulled wine in the evening at the markets or BOTH :)

I am sure you will be getting some merry drinking going on and enjoying your Christmas lunch! I see that you are wearing your polka dot hairband whilst working the turkey :P That will be one juicy tasting turkey! Pics please :)

Warmest wishes, hugs and love from Prague! xxxxxx!

Second day in Prague

Hi Anna!

Ahh when you read this it will be CHRISTMAS EVE!! I wonder what you will be doing?

Last night before our sauna session, we walked around the Old Town and climbed up the Astronomical Clock Tower for spectacular night views of the Christmas Markets. HW booked all the hotels and so far it's been superb because they're all close to the main attractions. The hotel that we're currently staying is rather grand and decorated in art noveau style. Plus it's great having free wi fi here! This means I can blog and wish everyone a Merry Christmas :D

Digital fireplace in the lounge of the hotel

I didn't know Prague was called Praha in Czech

Giant Xmas tree and markets

This morning after we'd stuffed ourselves silly with a continental breakfast buffet, we thought it was wise to spend the whole day walking it off. We walked all around Prague from the hotel to the Old Town, over Charles Bridge, up to Prague Castle, pass plenty of churches and a monastery, into shops for more Christmas decorations and back again.

Having my second helping :)

HW and I on Charles Bridge. Took us ages trying to get a decent photo of us!

Behind is Prague Castle. We walked from the bottom right of the photo. Unfortunately we weren't able to go inside because of the state funeral for the late Czech President.

HW and I went crazy with our decorations! We bought them from various stores along our descend from Prague Castle.

Prague isn't as cold as Nuremberg and sadly no snow is forecasted for Christmas :( The upside is that we didn't have to walk around with our gloves and were able to stay outdoors and walk around quite comfortably for a longer period of time.


I'm excited about tomorrow's lunch because we've made a booking at a restaurant based on reviews on tripadvisor.com.

Hope to hear about your Christmas activities soon :)