Bunny Corcoran

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I flew back from Praha (as it’s known locally) yesterday evening. Easyjet was surprisingly reliable. I got home about 12.30am this morning and we even managed to make the last train from central London.

I had an enjoyable 4 days. It’s a lovely city. Really pictureseque and beautiful without being massively over the top (like say Paris or Vienna are). I like both Paris and Vienna but they take things to the n-th degree whereas Prague is chocolate-box without the ‘meringue’, if you get my drift.

The hotel was lovely. Was recommended by a friend. It wasn’t in fairness particularly cheap but the location was fab and you had a wonderful breakfast each morning from the buffet (I would typically have 2x small poached eggs, a load of bacon and/or sausage, toast with nutella, juice, tea, croissant). Was great, really set you up for the day.

The city was fairly cheap to be a tourist in. I’m fairly lousy with remembering what exactly we did (’A’ will know in meticulous detail but I don’t really do meticulous detail and certainly can’t remember it!) but we did the main sights: castle, big churches, the old town (lovely), the Jewish quarter (fascinating though I refused point-blank to pay the 30 CZ crowns they wanted for admission to the Jewish cemetery (£10) as that was so much more expensive than all the other things we saw. Funnily enough an English couple directly in front of us said exactly the same and also went elsewhere). We did do the Old/New synagogue, though, which required wearing one of those Jewish skull caps which felt quite atmospheric.

I also dragged ‘A’ round the Gregory Crewdson exhibition at the Rudolfinum which for £4 was well worth it I thought. His stuff is quite far out (highly staged, uses Hollywood actors in some of his pics, etc, etc). His work focuses on the debasement of the American dream, among other motifs, and is certainly worth going to.

I adored the beer. ‘A’ hardly drank anything all holiday so I tended to drink the dark beer which I really loved. The food wasn’t bad and never very expensive. It’s like Austrian food - very ‘meat’ heavy - pork, goulash, etc. Also had sachertorte (cake) which I like and also apple strudel which they do very nicely (as you’d expect).

The weather was mixed. It rained most of the first day, overcast the second, mostly bright and sunny the third and almost completely sunny on the fourth. Lots of tourists in the city. Loads of Italians, absolutely masses of them, especially huge groups of school kids. Also lots of Germans/Austrians as you’d expect as they’re not far. We did see 2 separate stag parties on our flight on the way out but as we weren’t going to clubs or anything like that we didn’t see much of the nightlife. I hear it’s a gay mecca in many ways. Ah well, next time. Singledom is not a subject to be brought up last thing on a Tuesday evening!!

Photos below (you have to click each image twice to see it at the larger setting). When I get round to it I’ll set up a gallery plug in for this blog.