Bells were ringing in the distance a while ago. But now I have my headphones on, blasting European techno on Prague radio. I wish I could record this music and bring it back with me.

Sorry I haven't written anything since I got here but I was busy seeing the city. Everything is very old and beautiful. There are swans in the Vltva visible clearly from Karluv Most (Charles Bridge). Yesterday we saw Josefov, the Jewish quarter of old Praha. I love how art is all around here: Hand painted silk, carved marionettes, ceramics, oil paintings, bohemian glass, leather gifts, metal jewelry...

Anyway, I've seen the changing of the guard at the residence of Vaclav Havel, the Spanish synagogue, went to a show of Sephardic, Gypsy and Czech and Slovak music... I rested on the cobbled ground of the Old Town Square with other exausted tourists, mostly from Germany, while I listened to a live jazz band and stared at the bright blue sky above the historical statue-monument..thing. In Josefov, an orthodox Jewish guy gave me Shabbat candles and placed a yarmulka on my dad's head, wrapped tefillin around his arms and forehead and taught him a prayer.

And I am going to buy a skoda, the Czech car. More details of my surroundings later...

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