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What a view
The Charles Bridge is the second, or middle bridge. It was crammed with people today.As we walked through the Royal Gardens enjoying the plants and spring flowers, occasionally we were greeted with great views, each building on the other until we stumbled onto the best view of the Charles Bridge and Old Town Prague that we have seen.
We were walking along when Nancy said, "The only bad thing is there's no place to eat in this part of the park and I am HUNGRY.
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Looking ahead I saw a small, but very fancy building. At first I thought it was just that, a fancy building, but then I saw they had a menu board beside some steps.
"There," I said, "we can get something there."
As we walked up to read the menu ,the scenes in the pictures came into view and drew us like a magnet draws iron filings. We thought we had seen good views earlier today, but they were not to be compared to these views looking up the Valtava River and across Prague, especially over Old Town. This is a great location to look over the city and gain a better understanding of the location of vatrious landmarks. For instance, Old Town Square is further to
Another, Wow what a view
Turning right from the picture of the bridges the big church on the edge of Old Town Square shows clearly. the left of the Charles Bridge than I had thought and the Charles Bridge is longer than I had realized.
After staring at the beauty ,we entered the porch where food was being served. Nancy loves the sweet cheese dumplings with fruit sauce we discovered, first in Poland and now here. I was more into ice cream today. Nancy had her sweet dumplings and I had ice cream with fruit. Good eating.
The pavillon we had stumbled onto is the Hanavsky Pavillion. It is a cast iron structure that was made for the 1891 Land Jubilee Exhibition. After the exhibition, the pavillon was moved to its present location, on this bluff overlooking Prague where now it is a restaurant and cafe. There are outdoor heaters for cool weather diners, but today we needed no heaters to be comfortable.
When we arrived almost all the tables were filled with people. We were fortuinate in finding a table right beside the railing with the best view of the Valtava River flowing under the Charles Bridge. The restaurant is not cheap. Fortunately we did not want a full meal. The least expensive meal I remember was 600 Kn while the
Fancy roof
This is the roof of the Hanavsky Pavillon where we snacked on sweet cheese and strawberry filled dumplings with strawberry sauce and ice cream with fruit and enjoyed the view. most expensive meal, lobster, was 1500 Kn. The exchange rate currently is about 22 to 1.
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Jiro
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Hanavsky pavilion
Hello Bill and Nancy I'm Jiro from Bangkok, Thailand. Nice to know you. I just read your post about Hanavsky pavilion in Letna Park. I really want to go there and take some picture of Vltava river and bridges. Could you please answering me question below: 1. I stay at Pargue 3 (Olsanka Hotel (Táboritská 23/1000 130 00 Praha 3 - Žižkov.). Can you tell me how can I go to Hanavsky Pavilion ? 2. Is Hanavsky pavilion public open for tourist. I really want to go there and take some picture of river and bridges. Or I have to order some food at the Hanavsky restaurant. Looking forward to hear from you. Jiro