Further adventures in Prague

Thurs 11 March. After a great breakfast,Sheila and I went back to the internet cafe to get Beth and Jeff Willen/Holcomb's phone and address to set ourselves up for the next leg of our adventure: Rotterdam beginning tomorrow. We also went back to the train station to check on tomorrow's connections from Amsterdam to Rotterdam and the availability of food and wine for the long train ride. We do need our provisions after all. We were on our way to Wenselas Square. It's the same Wenselas in the Christmas carole, but he was not a king. He was a popular duke. Sometimes, when you're nice, you get elevated to king status. I'm still waiting. On the way, after passing a couple of men who were clearly drug addicts, we discovered an exhibition about the political upheavel in then Chechoslovakia in 1968. It was fascinating illustrating the oppression of the Communist dictatorship vs intellectual, personal and popular resistance that led to the eventual fall of the communist dictatorship. It spoke to the role of the anti nuclear movement, the environmental movement, and economic hardship that led to the revolution. Fortunately, the exhibit was in English and Czech. After the visit, were had a beer in the restaurant. Czech beer is great. They're smoother and less bitter than the american equivalent. We walked down Wenselas Square where everything important politically has happened: the Czechoslovakian nation was proclaimed here and liberty in 1968. More later. Love to all, Michael