We Take Ourselves With Us

We started our last full day in Prague--Christmas, proper--with another yummy Miss Sophie's breakfast, which Penn "witnessed" a la Mad Max: Fury Road.  As you can see, his sister is now immune to such displays.   Thanks to some great directions by MS desk clerk Ruben, we skipped the underground and took the tram.  Prague trams criss-cross the city, taking tight curves and cobblestones in stride.  The same ticket that covers the underground can be used on the tram.  As our proximity might suggest, the tram was packed on Christmas day, and one of our fellow passengers was the previously mentioned dude with a dog in one hand and a pizza in the other.  Oh, Prague.   We knew we were at the Castle when we saw this sign .. Oh, wait, I meant, this sign ... which I'm certain says, "Welcome to Prague Castle!"  Either that, or "Keep on dancing, brightly jacketed American boy." The Castle grounds are home to the multiple buildings that were ...

When I mentioned to people that I was going to Prague, anyone who had visited the city started swooning about how beautiful it was--"the most beautiful city" was repeated over and over by people who have likely been pretty much everywhere.  Turns out ... they were right.  When you read this entry, understand that for every photo that's here, I probably took about 25 because Prague is simply movie-set gorgeous--even when its glory is faded, it's still a glory to behold.  In fact, I kept saying, "Everywhere you look, Prague is just beautiful," leading my children to repeatedly break into song . We started the day with a hearty (and cheap) breakfast at Miss Sophie's, which has turned out to be a wonderful find.  Our apartment is on the third floor and could be reached by a tiny elevator that fit in the center of the circular staircase or by the stairs themselves.    The buffet breakfast menu is detailed in lovely chalk drawings each morning on the...