Old Town Square | Sherry Lachelle Travels

With the Charles Bridge and Prague in the background, this solitary row-boat appeared to be quite “solitary”!

I left off yesterday having explored some of Wenceslas Square in New Town and Old Town Square. When I presented this trip to my Travel Spirit Meetup.com, I stressed the point that we would be traveling together as independent travelers, meaning if you wanted to stay with the group you could, and if you wanted to divide off with someone else or a separate group, you could and should. At various times during the tour, people would do that. I enjoy solo traveling and believe it empowers people, so I encouraged others to take at least a few hours by themselves, exploring.

On our way walking to take the Funicular (Cog Railway) up Petrin Hill, we happened upon this interesting Memorial to Victims of Communism…

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The Astronomical Clock in the center of Old Town Square is on the tourist’s “must do” list, so we did it. There were twelve of us traveling through Eastern Europe for 11 days. Shifting from one leg to the other to take pressure off of my back, it was hard to believe I was finally there. When the figures finally did their thing (I forget now what they did because I watched a clock in Munich also), it was a bit anti-climatic. I was more interested in taking photographs of the amazing architecture and people!