Prague day 3 - Di arrives safely

Late the previous day we finally found the Jewish Museum and cemetry. Unfortunately we only would have had 20 mins inside and we weren´t sure how long we would need so we decided to start this day back there (after b´fast of course... luckily we are walking all day to work off the amount we seem to be consuming)

As expected our experience at this museum and cemetry was very moving. To see the headstones in the cemetry it was still hard to comprehend how they had buried about 100,000 on so little land. (That is all they were allowed to use) The cemetry had around 12,000 headstones and they had buried people up to 7 deep and just had to keep mounding dirt on the old graves to take the new.

Mark also had to wear a cap in the synagog as a sign of respect of their customs.

We all then made our way over the river to the Cathedral and Palace. It was a bit of an up hill walk and after so many days of walking on uneven cobled streets and footpaths our legs were killing us. But soldier on we did!!!

We were fortunate to get warmer weather this day, reaching a top of 9C it felt positively balmy to us. We entered St Vitius Cathedral (which seemed to be within the grounds of the Palace) and Mark in particular was awestruck, not having seen enough Catholic churches in his life time.

It was enormous and the leadlight windows just stunning. Even Sue said, if it was Sunday, she would go to experience Mass there.

Here is a pic of one of the windows as example but alas not very clear.

Then it was a quick dash back to the apt as we received a message from Di to say she had arrived and was waiting outside the door for us. We did however still manage to take some photos of the awesome view as well as of this door to the Italian Embassy. It was so gorgeous.

Di was barely in the door and we were off again. Back to the Old town Square for a horse and buggy ride. So touristy but so great!! We loved ourselves of course!!

After the buggy ride we had pre-show drinks. We had seen a show that was bits of a couple of Mozart´s operas as well as some of his music.

The theatre was where Mozart conducted some of his work and well as premiered his Don Giovanni in 1787 (if memory serves us correctly) It was so sumptuous and spectacular. (Georgina & Laureen it was like the one we went to in Rome except Dresden Blue instead of red interior)

If you look closely at this photo taken in the theatre you will see Mark and I in the middle row towards the left and Di in the box next to us which she shared with Sue. As it was first in first served for the best seats we decided to grab 2 private boxes. We all thought we were rather special and posh.

We were all exhausted and after a nice meal we were home for a much needed rest and sleep.