Prague….oh how I love thee.
Right now you may be asking yourself, “…Self, what is Stephen Searer up to these days?”
If I were nearby, and you happened to say it out loud, and I happened to hear it, I would probably say something along the lines of, “Well, (insert name here) the proper question is what aren’t I up to”
When I first arrived in Prague 4 or 5 days ago (I’ve lost count) I started to see everything. I even purchased a guidebook that told me everything about everything here. It’s been wonderful and I have even found myself answering people that ask questions at certain monuments which I am familiar with. It is really a lot of fun.
In case you didn’t know, I was here last summer for several days. Specifically, I was with a group from Cal Baptist touring Holocaust sites as a supplement to the course I took the previous semester. However, it was a much different purpose than my latest one, which was to learn everything about the city. Hopefully I can convince everyone I know to go to it. After all, I think its the most beautiful city in the world.
So I’ve toured and looked at probably 10 or 15 churches, toured Prague Castle, the National Museum. Which was so much fun by the way. I am not a big fan of looking at rocks by an means, but there was an excellent mineral collection. They also had some wonderful collections of taxidermied animals (I apologize if that is spelled wrong, I meant stuffed, but that sounds likes they have kids toy collection) Anyways, it was so much fun looking at birds, snakes, bugs, fish, whales, bears, dodo’s and countless others.
Tomorrow I am planning on touring the Jewish quarter again as a tourist this time, and I will probably make it up to the Loreto near the castle. Most people that are reading have no clue what I am talking about so do a little homework on Prague by going here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague
Prague has had the most beautiful rose gardens yet. Really breathtaking. I uploaded some more pictures but only a few because it was messing up the internet cafe’s connection.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevesearer
For my favorite photos of the trip go here and click on them to make them bigger:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevesearer/tags/favorite/
Well, thats all for now, sorry about the lack of new pictures. 
Stephen’s my name,
I love you all,
-Stephen
June 25th, 2006 at 12:12 pm
Tour Guide Steve:
“And to your left is the Prague Castle. The castle where the Czech kings, Holy Roman Emperors and presidents of the Czech Republic (and Czechoslovakia) have had their offices. The crown jewels of the Bohemian Kingdom are kept here. Prague Castle is one of the biggest castles in the world (according to Guinness Book of Records the biggest ancient castle) at about 570 meters in length and an average of about 130 meters wide.”
August 25th, 2008 at 11:47 am
Hi, you don’t know me but I stumbled across your blog b/c we have various mutual friends from CBU. I just wanted to indulge further about how amazing Prague is! I spent two months there in 2007 working with the IMB and fell in love with that city. So far, it remains at the top of my list for favorite European city.