Thursday, December 8, 2011

Autumn on the Vltava

Autumn on the Vltava

Late afternoon from one of the bridges across the Vltava River.

Seriously, the Czech Republic needs to buy a damn vowel. Maybe they should contact the Netherlands; they could certainly spare a few.
Posted by Generik at 6:31 PM
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7 comments:

ahab said...

Pretty shot.

How was Prague compared to when you were there last (which I think you said was in the 90's)?

December 9, 2011 at 2:55 PM
Tom Hilton said...

Gorgeous.

December 9, 2011 at 3:57 PM
Generik said...

We were there in 2005(on my last sabbatical), and about the only difference between then and now was the weather. Last time, it was early summer, and warm (though we did get a bit of rain). This time, it was very cold -- down in the 20s and 30s most of the time we were there. Had there been any precipitation, we surely would have had snow.

Loved the fall colors, though -- more so in Budapest than Prague, but both places were nice.

December 9, 2011 at 4:29 PM
William Buckley said...

Great commentary. Even better photograph.

December 9, 2011 at 10:20 PM
ahab said...

I somehow misremembered when you were there. Mixed it up with my only trip there, in '95 or '96, when the tourist trade was still pretty clunky and Eastern European. Russian, not English, was the second language. That actually made it better, in a way. More exotic. Guess I'll have to return myself someday to find out if English has ruined the place. ;)

How about Budapest, is that much more Eastern-feeling than Czech?

December 10, 2011 at 7:56 AM
Generik said...

I got a pretty similar feeling in Budapest as I did in Prague -- everyone speaks English, and there are Americans everywhere. The biggest difference I noticed was that, because much of Budapest was damaged in WWII, there was a lot more Soviet-era architecture there than Prague. Still a beautiful city, though.

December 11, 2011 at 4:57 PM
E-6 said...

Pretty like a painting.

December 16, 2011 at 11:41 AM

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