Day 13: Prague

Since nothing was scheduled for today, I woke up and had breakfast at leisure. Laura and Stuart were already in the dining room. We had each ordered each other cappuccinos so we had an overload but still managed to drink them! I will miss them. Laura and Stu asked me to join them for a trip to the National Gallery at the Trade Fair Palace. Laura wanted to see an Egon Schiele print and thought she had tracked it down.

We ubered over to this enormous bland building and sure enough, it was one of the National Galleries. We paid our entrance fee and then went to the elevator. A guard came over and said that we should use the special elevator since I had a cane. She took us to the special elevator which turned out to have three steps leading up to it. Stuart had a good laugh.

There was some interesting art there, an exhibition of Czech paintings from the 1920’s.

There was a gallery of French artists who painted in the same time frame. I felt very cultured. No Egon Schiele.

The kids wanted to go the the Museum of Alchemy, so I waved goodbye to them.

The cab dropped me off in the square near the hotel and I did some walking and souvenir shopping. I got some cards, but passed on the Czech crystal. Some of it is beautiful, but I’m trying to get rid of things, not add them.

I stopped at the sandwich shop and got a Brie with onion marmalade on brown bread sandwich. At the counter they had a tray of small filled pastries filled with Nutella. I got some for Stu because he loves pastry.

I went back to my hotel room, had half the sandwich, it was pretty rich, and I was saving myself for the truffles that had been left for me last night.

Wine and cheese was being served in the lobby so I went down to partake. I spoke with a lovely young woman from Texas whose husband was napping.

Laura and Stu came in, they had walked back from the Old Town. They decided to take a swim before dinner.
They loved the museum.

We walked up the hill to the restaurant they chose because it had a garden. Unfortunately it had rained so the garden was closed. It was very plain, old wood tables and paneling and photos of old Prague. We started with a cucumber salad and a tomato onion salad. Both delicious. Laura had buckwheat risotto and I had warm Brie with cranberry sauce and salad. We split. Stu had boar schnitzel. I tried it, it was pretty good. But the piece de resistance was dessert. Warm apple strudel with whipped cream AND vanilla ice cream.

That was my dessert swan song, I think.

I sat with Laura and Stu as they packed and we had some good laughs recalling some of our adventures. They were the best companions.

Tomorrow I leave at 6:15 for the airport and my flight to Geneva en route to Beaune, France.

Love,
Lynn