I could end each day with a shout: give me back my time!
Since my trip to Prague, winter has come and gone. Sadly, almost all the snow from my last post has already melted. We have Christmas and are getting ready to welcome the New Year, so the trip seems like a distant adventure. And it's only been six weeks :)
All the photos are waiting in the folders until I introduce a bit of discipline into my life and finally start publishing them. I greatly respect users who blog regularly and glance at them with a bit of envy. I know I can do it too, just need discipline!
I don't know why, but I have an overwhelming urge to show photos from the day I left Prague, skipping, for now, the explorations of Saturday and Sunday. I left the city on Monday morning and had about an hour between leaving the hotel and the train departure.
To the train station, I took 20 minute walk. The day was beautiful and I really regretted that I couldn't stay longer.
On the way from the hotel to the train station - Wenceslas Square.
A few steps from the station is an oriental fairy-tale Jerusalem (Jubilee) Synagogue, blended into the surrounding townhouses. It appears suddenly - you walk down the street expecting nothing, and it emerges from around the corner. The oriental structure gives the impression of being carved into the wall of the tenements.
Even if you only change in Prague and have half an hour of free time - it's worth a look!
Under the synagogue, unfortunately, my phone was frozen, and I couldn't take any more pictures. I had my camera tucked deep in my luggage and didn't want to take it out.
The phone malfunction frightened me because I only had an electronic ticket. I realized how addicted we are to electronics!
When I finally managed to get the phone working and the stress let go, I started looking around. The level we were waiting for a train was pretty ordinary, but when I looked up, I noticed a fragment of a richly decorated dome and guessed that the level above was much more exiting. I hadn't read about Prague's historic train station before, so what I saw after going up the stairs surprised me.
I love Art Nouveau, so I was entranced! The decorations, sculptures, beautiful railings, stained glass windows... not sure which way to look!
Unfortunately, I only managed to see the main hall with the dome because the train to Ostrava was about to arrive, and I had to run to the platform. And the historic building is big; it is also worth seeing from the outside, which I didn't manage to do. I also missed the sculptures commemorating the so-called Winton trains. It is a story related to World War II - Nicholas Winton was a British humanitarian who organized the transport of nearly 700 Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia in 1939.
I was waiting for the train with a certain sense of insufficiency. I could have left the hotel earlier! Although, if it weren't for an accidental look-up, I wouldn't even know how beautiful Prague's train station is. Well, I will start my next visit to Prague with a thorough tour of this place!
I have to say that I also really liked the platforms' architecture. I'm a big fan of geometric shapes, harmony, and symmetry.
It calms me down :)
See you soon 🌺
