Honeymoon Part 1: Prague

We arrived in Prague just in time for dinner, so our first meal of the honeymoon - which was actually pretty characteristic of most of the meals of the honeymoon - was GIANT PLATE OF MEAT:

The directions to the place we were staying said it was right behind a "fairytale church with two towers," which turned out to be pretty accurate:

Daytime

Nighttime

It was also right by this awesome medieval astronomical clock, which was pretty much my favorite thing in all of Prague:

Look at this awesome clock!

We were next to it!

(In Vienna we went to a clock museum, which was my favorite thing there, leading Ben to remark that the theme of our honeymoon was "the unrelenting passage of time.")

We went to Prague castle, which contained another fairytale-like church, the St. Vitus Cathedral from the 1300s:

Check out those flying buttresses!

Amazingly detailed mosaic over the entrance

The stained glass windows were gorgeous, although hard to capture in a photo:

We saw the John Lennon Memorial wall, which is a spontaneous graffiti memorial that sprung up after his death, causing much tension between the Leninists running the country (and who kept painting over it) and the Lennonists who created (and re-created, and re-created...) it. It is still being painted on and modified today.

John!

Fred was here!

We saw the oldest active synagogue in all of Europe, which was founded in 1270:

It doesn't look that impressive...

... but it has really neat windows!

 More recently, it is used to try and draw in Jewish tourism money:

"Experience your precious legacy the intelligent way"

We walked across a 600+ year old bridge:

Ben at the entrance

Me on the bridge

We ate what we could best pronounce as "turtle necks":

Trdelník

 And on our last night, we went to the top of the astronomical tower, which afforded a great view of the Prague castle:

And also of the bored-looking teenager who plays the trumpet every hour:

Goodbye, Prague!