Prague, Day 17

Another fairytale view...

1. There are very few cars on the back streets and alleys, so few that you can spend most of your time walking in the street, and just hop out of the way if a car happens to come by
2. Everyone smokes indoors here, it seems like everywhere and I am sick of it. Second-hand smoke is really, really bad. Everything I own just reeks of it. Will be sooooo glad to leave this part of Prague behind
3. Cab drivers are very unscrupulous here. A cab to the art museum today took about 10 minutes and cost the equivalent of $35. A cab back (same cab ride) cost $16. Luckily we've been walking everywhere except for today
4. The art museum was great. Modern art, one floor international, which was fine, and then 4 floors of CZ art, a lot of which was a really cool. My favorites were a paper-mâché dog with a head shaped like a dunce cap, very Tim Burton-esque. I also really liked a sculpture made of a wooden table and chairs, a wooden bowl, some logs, all filled with metal hooks and eyes, it looked like the wood was covers with fur. My husband liked the well manufactured belt-driven motorcycle, beautiful design. He was offended by the art that consisted of nothing but a 3 by 5 black square
5. There was a glass elevator in the middle of the museum you could ride from the ground floor up to the fifth, with all the mechanical workings exposed. A little scary to ride. You could only ride up, no one was allowed to ride down. To do that you had to get into the scary Cold War-era silver elevator that flashed random floors at you the whole time you descended

We fly to Venice tomorrow at 6 AM. Home Friday. This has been a great trip but I'm starting to miss home and puppies.