I'm back ! I left without warning for a weekend out of town, and didn't even have a chance to post anything yesterday. But I wanted to post one more image that I took back in 2002.
This generation of trams is unfortunately slowly disappearing from the streets, replaced by new ones. Useless to say, I don't like the new ones.
Prague's tv tower, featuring artist David Cerny's great Babies (which I wish will never be removed, even though they were installed as a temporary exhibition in 2000). For a year or so now, the tower has been without its top cone, thus losing some of its shape strength, and I have found no explanation as to why or how long this is going to last. I find it quite intolerable that such a strong feature of the skyline can be altered without anyone seeming to notice :/
Let's go on with the searching-scanning-posting old pictures... Here Loreta, in the castle area.
Exactly 6 years ago, me and my 41 kg of luggage arrived in Prague. It was just after the 100-year floods that hit the city, the water wasn't there anymore, but left a lot of damages throughout the city.
Today, among the list of monuments opened to visitors, I chose to go to see the former gazometer in Liben, built in 1932, and now used for aerodynamic studies.
This weekend are the European Heritage Days, which means that in a lot of european cities, some monuments that are normally closed to the public will be open to visits, usually even for free. Check the EHD's official website.
A cafe in the former Art Nouveau entrance hall of Prague's main train station... remote place nowadays, since the entrance level has been moved below.
Having a celebration afternoon at work. Drinking 1,2 beers with the colleagues.. Being off to Pavel's celebration's party, he's got his master degree!! Having a drink at his place. Going to a cocktail bar. Having one beer, another drink, and a "shot" to celebrate. Going home, remembering you have to work tomorrow. Catching a late metro. Taking some pictures on the way.
A new mall is almost finished in Pankrac, where the highrise-financial-downtown is supposed to take place.
Public transport terminus station Cerny Most- litteraly Black Bridge, does anyone know where that name comes from ? I almost posted this picture in black&white to spare you this awful green.
Let's stay in the Museum area, as Honza03 from the original Prague CityDailyPhoto posted a great answer to my steel machine... Here a picture of the underground passage linking the museum side of the town with the area behind it, the being cut at the moment by a ... highway, or almost.
An extension built around 1945 to house the parliament... This is just next to the National museum building, and contributes to Prague's diversity in architecture
To fully enjoy the last day of summer, as we all know it is (30°C and huge sun all day!), I went back to my second favourite outdoor swimming pool this afternoon. I actually didn't go there at all this year, because it's pretty far from where I live now -it takes 40-50 minutes from door to door... but it was great today!
Summer shoes aren't yet back in their boxes, but some streets already boast autumn colors... Here in Karlin.
The museum's cupola, tonight, 18h30... I guess I should put my summer shoes back in their boxes now :/
Novy Smichov mall at Andel, that opened in 2000 or 2001. This area is full of new offices, hotels, cinemas, high-end housing buildings, rebuilt public spaces and supermarkets...More than just "another mall", it's really a new center, maybe the only one that really competes with Nove Mesto's. It's really working, full of people everyday and nights until, let's say, 1 am.
