Prague - the land of photo opportunities

Prague is impossibly beautiful. Being here is like being part of a medievil movie set. Frank keeps excepting the Director to jump out and yell 'cut'.

We get daylight from around about 8am to 4pm...

From 4pm all the Christmas lights come on and by 8pm it feels like midnight, sending us into hibernation.

There are colourful Christmas markets selling Christmas trees, hot wine (not yummy), iced donuts, sausages and other traditional dishes.

Carp is the traditional Christmas meal enjoyed on Christmas Eve. The boys were horrified to see fish mongers bash a live Carp on the head repeatedly with a hammer. They said, 'that's mean', 'we're not eating that for Christmas'. We won't discuss where the ham on their pizza comes from.

Yesterday we moved apartments and extended our accomodation here until 27th Dec. Our new apartment is the size of the last one and in Old Town, one minute walk from the Town Square and big Christmas Tree. We can hear the town clock chiming on the hour which is nice. We discovered in the wee hours of this morning, upon waking to the Czech equivalent of 'doof, doof' music, that our apartment is above a nightclub.

Although it has been bitterly cold (by Aus standards) we have not had snow...although there has been evidence of it in the morning on car roofs etc. The icing on the cake would be if we did get some actual snow for Christmas...