Day fourteen

Lots of interesting places to see today. We started with a walking tour of the Jewish Ghetto. Then on to the Old Town with its astrological clock. After a walk across the Charles Bridge we had an excellent lunch. Later we visited the Musical Instruments Museum.

The Jewish Quarter

Note the lower clock face

The old synagogue, still in use

The old-new cemetery

Who says that Prague is not a modern city? A far cry from the communist era.

Old town

What are all these people waiting for?

At the stroke of noon the little figures appear in the windows above the clock.

The store owner was trying to stop me from taking a photo in his marionette shop

I got one anyway!

This is where our group had lunch

This is where another group ate their lunch (note the guy in the middle with the white shirt taking a photo of the church with his iPad)

St Nicolas Cathedral

Inside the Musical Instruments Museum

Benjamin Franklin invented this instrument. Using a wet finger you create music by touching the rotating glass cylinders. Same principle as running a finger around the rim of a water glass.

If you ever wondered what a “hurdy gurdy” looked like, here it is

One good thing about getting the wrong directions for the tram back to the hotel is that we got to see the flower sculpture in front of the National Theater.

The National Theater