A Day In Prague and

Well Golly! We sure have had a time since last I wrote! Yesterday we had tour of Prague. First by bus, then by foot. It was really something. On the bus we saw some really neat things like this, the Gestapo headquarters during WWII.
And this, a statue of Good King Wenceslas (or Saint Wenceslas as they called him in the Czech Republic). We also later went to the cathedral where Wenceslas (and about a dozen monarchs) were buried. Well, not exactly buried, I mean they were in the church still, but... you know.

We got off the bus and toured the Prague Castle. It is almost an entire town really, more than a castle. The "Pink House" (as our tour guide called it) where the president works is located in the castle/city as well as many historic sites and the cathedral I mentioned earlier.
We also got to see the oldest vineyard in Czech Republic. This picture is of our Prague tour guide, Vladimir, and Phyllis, a lady on our tour, trying some grapes we snatched from the vineyard (shhh!).
After the tour Em and I wandered around and found this really neat pizzeria down some tiny little back alley. We got some delicious local beer (as we have been sampling every day) and we each got a 32cm mixed mushroom pizza (apparently we don't know how big 32cm is... it was huge... not that we didn't each pound the whole thing!). After walking around Prague for a couple more hours, we went to a concert at this beautiful church. It was really something. Then we grabbed some dinner in our executive lounge (and some more beers) and I hit the spa before bed. Yes, I figured I'd better take advantage of the water back/neck massage, and water foot massage, and steam room, and sauna, and waterfall, and pool that shoots water at you to make it feel like your swimming laps when you're stationary, and the "chill out room" (a room of pillows, candles, and completely surrounded in draped lace) because I know darn well I'll never get a chance at anything that nice again!!

So, today we drove from Prague down to Durnstein, Austria (no, we did not "throw another shrimp on the barbie). We are RIGHT on the Danube, and WOW! If I thought the last hotel was nice!!! Our view is... oh my. It is breath-taking. I don't know if you remember my view from my room in Tasmania (probably in the second post I ever put on this blog) but the view from here makes that look like the view from a prison cell! I could go on about how beautiful and charming this place is, and GOSH could I go on about the food (uh... wow. That's all I can say. Words are insufficient for the incredible food we are eating), but this blog is LOOOONG enough. So, thanks for keeping up, and I hope we can post more soon!