While looking for lunch I passed the attraction billed as the Narrowest Street in Prague, Vinárna Čertovka. It's actually a pedestrian street, but still it's very narrow at 50 cm. So traffic lights have been installed so that the flow is one way at any time.
At the end of the street is the Restaurant Čertovka which overlooks the Vltava. Fortunately for the customers of restaurant this is not the only access to it.
It looks like I doubled back northwards on Na Kampě to near Café Mánice to take a photo of this underpass with the Charles Bridge above.
Another view of Charles Bridge. It extends for some distance inland on the west bank.
This is the
Čertovka canal which bypasses part of the Vltava to drive some mills in the past, and also creating an artificial island called
Kampa.
Bridge to the "island".
Nearby is Marionety, a figurine shop.
A chimney cake with ice cream shop is overlooked by one of the bridge towers. Notice the iconic cylinder of cake.
I walked up the stairs to the bridge level and took this photo looking eastwards. It was a slightly cool and windy day hence some people were using their hoodies.
The tram stop at
Malostranské náměstí, or
Malá Strana square. This the main N-S tram line on the west bank that I used a fair bit as it runs all the way to my accommodation.
Nearby is St. Nicholas Church which I passed by coming down from Prague Castle on Sunday.
I decided to eat at the restaurant that was closed on Sunday. This was probably a pork cutlet with chips and salad.
In Europe, reminders of WWII are never far away with monuments and plaques. Walking home, I passed this one on a wall commemorating Viktorie Krupková, a young victim of the Prague Uprising, a partly successful attempt by Czech resistance to liberate themselves from the occupying German force. She was a music student and only 23.
No more pictures for the day. I probably rested in preparation to leave the next day.
No comments:
Post a Comment