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Published: August 11th 2008
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crystal room at narodní muzeum
Basically this about 500 times over. love #1: The national museum (
Narodní Muzeum) has this one room full of hundreds and hundreds of crystals, gems and random pieces of rock, all cased away in glass cases. This was possibly the highest energy room I have ever set foot in in my life, and walking around it I kept feeling like my insides were vibrating at their own accord. Some of them were even protected by cardboard covers that you had to open, look at them then close again, obviously ones which are sensitive to light. It's really quite bizarre, like the storage facility of the world's most diehard stamp collector save for rocks instead of stamps. But definitely worth a look, or indeed a blindfolded foot in the threshold just to feel the energy.
love #2: One of the towers near to Karlův Most has this hench astrological clock, though I don't think I'm any the wiser about how to read it, since if it's as self explanatory as it looks, today it seemed to inform that the sun was in virgo.
love #3: Down by the river near the commercial district in the new town you come across this rather wonderful building, the
Tančící funny clock
gives the position of the sun, the moon and maybe a random star as well? Dům (pronounced "tun-chee-tsee doom") or "dancing house", a building I had obliviously been referring to as "the modern art museum on acid", before realising that it wasn't a modern art museum at all and I have no idea why I thought it was, just an office block, but has to be my favourite piece of modern architecture I've ever seen.
love #4: There's this synagogue, tucked away in the jewish quarter, which I found rather impressive to stare at for a good minute or two, it contrasted really amazingly with the buildings either side.
love #5: The castle - didn't go inside the actual fortress, because you didn't seem to be able to unless you were doing a guided tour, which I really didn't have the energy for, but you can still go inside the gates (which are guarded by czech soldiers dressed in blue reminiscent of the horseman guards) and explore the area around, which is all still within the outer castle walls. Definitely worth a visit. Interestingly Czech castles look absolutely nothing like castles in England or France, they're more reminiscent of large cathedrals.
lulz #1: This museum called the "museum of medieval torture instruments",
ahoj,
tesi me, jsem nadobí. next to Karlův Most, bearing signs on pretty much all the windows reading "TORTURE MUSEUM", or "MUSEUM TORTURE", made me laugh cos I got this image of a museum which is guaranteed to be torture to visit, maybe one that makes your kids scream endlessly or somehow makes you lose all your stuff.
lulz #2: I kept seeing these symbols on top of churches and statues which I couldn't help noticing are extremely reminiscent of the symbol scientology uses for depicting the 8 dynamics, except with 12 spikes - obviously nothing to do with sci, probably a christian symbol or similar but I'd be interested in what it means cos I've never seen it before.
lulz #3: As well as the Narodní Muzeum's collection of rocks, they also have chamber pots with faces.
lulz #4: A casino called the "crystal palace casino" which made me feel at home. On the subject of crystals though (though completely unrelated), there seem to be hundreds of shops in Prague selling bits of coloured glass in funny shapes, advertising as "bohemian crystal shops", which seems to be rivalling tacky souvenir shops (the kinds which sell shirts bearing slogans such as "czech
me out!") in being the cheap and easy way to sell to tourists.
lulz #5: Tour guides... funneh. As well as the fact that they were walking around with umbrellas under clear skies when it was boiling hot, they were really trying so hard to sell themselves, 2 here standing next to each other with signs saying something like "THE BEST guided tour of prague!" and then "THE BEST EVER guided tour of prague, honestly!"
That shall be all for now, next you hear from me I'll probably have moved a bit to the left.
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