Category: Czech Republic

home thoughts from abroad

Home thoughts from abroad is a new series on Travel Words featuring a single photograph that reminds me of a country visited and showing something that uniquely identifies it as being ‘abroad’.

One of the best things about Prague is the transport system. Buy a pass to cover how long you are in the city to make it easy to get around. Trams and the metro are plentiful and hopping from one to the other simple. Although  I prefer to walk around a city, we stayed a little way out of the centre and the weather wasn’t all that good in late September. Cold and wet. So I happily used trams to take me closer to where I wanted to explore.

Time x Square

Time for another square month hosted by the lovely Becky. The photos don’t necessarily have to be of a timepiece, but are open to interpretation to reflect time in some way, or sayings such as ‘the passing of time’, ‘a stitch in time’, or time running away from you.

Remaining in Prague for Day Two and two images of the marvellous Daliesque-like melting clocks. Time pouring away? Time slipping through your fingers?

Personally I love the little poached egg clock in the window and regret that I didn’t buy it at the time.

The Persistence of Memory: The iconography may refer to a dream that Dalí himself had experienced, and the clocks may symbolise the passing of time as one experiences it in sleep or the persistence of time in the eyes of the dreamer. Wikipedia

To join in with the Squares challenge please visit Becky for instructions. Remember the only proper rule is that the photo must be SQUARE.

December Squares | Day Two

Time x Square

Time for another square month hosted by the lovely Becky. The photos don’t necessarily have to be of a timepiece, but are open to interpretation to reflect time in some way such as the passing of time, or sayings such as a stitch in time, time running away from you.

Starting off with an obvious one on Day One is this famous Astronomical clock (Prague Orloj) in Prague’s Staroměstské nám. The clock was first installed in 1410, making it the third-oldest astronomical clock in the world and the oldest one still operating.

The 608-year-old clock, a must-see for many tourists with its hourly moving display of the 12 apostles and other figures, has been recently renovated taking nine months to fix previous badly done repairs.

To join in with the Squares challenge please visit Becky for instructions. Remember the only proper rule is that the photo must be SQUARE.

December Squares | Day One

June Squares | Roofs

It’s June and another 30 day challenge from Becky.  ‘The Life of B’ This month she is looking for a roof or roofs or even rooves. Follow the link for the rules.

Overlooking the streets of Prague, Czech Rebublic. Becky on the other hand is in Lisbon, though not in the same place as I was a few days ago.

June Square | 16th June