GNN- Cold Flash Prague NonCorrespondent- evening edition

You were wise. The non-reporter that hides away lives to non-report another day.

Isn't that second bridge Karluv Most? (Charles Bridge, for the Central Europe-challenged majority). That's the only one I know, anyway, so I thought I'd ask.

no-- you're not Central European challenged at all-- the second bridge that you are looking at is crossing between Andel and Karlovi Namesti--

you can recognize it by the water tower with the onion dome just north of it. That's Manes. it was a breakaway artists' group something like the Secession in Vienna. Charles Bride is upriver two more bridges I think and not possible to see from this far downstream. The square roof in the upper part of background is the National Theater, so the Charles Bridge is about 5kilometers north and a bend in the river besides.

Thanks. I figured it wasn't, because I didn't see any statues on it, but it wasn't clear enough.

I only spent two days in Prague once, long ago.

So Aniko-- don't be so hard on yourself-- I wouldn't know the monuments from most US cities and can recognize the Space Needle when I see it. But all those famous skyscrapers? Am clueless about them. I don't even recognize the Seattle skyline anymore because it changed so radically.


and I don't actually know the name of this bridge and will have to look it up. I used to teach at a school just near it.

Enjoyed, Mary! :)

Too bad no naked shots. What kind of non-paparazzi are you?

not-- don't mess with men double my size and looking like russian mafia. been beaten enough and so high-tailed it back to open space where guys were fishing, ducks swimming and swans begging-- that sort of stuff.

too many accidental run-iins with nasty peole has left me with too many fractures with no medical care...

just kind of startled me to see a long-legged cream-white man doing his thing along the embankment in clear day. watering the environment is normal activity for european men, no different than dogs when it comes to that, but baathing in river-- a bit surprising.

watering the environment is normal activity for european men

Mostly because being drunk is a common affliction....

ohhh that is harsh-- I doubt if European men are any more drunk than Americans. And i'm always needing a jump in the bushes and drink almost no alcohol at all. :)

Okay, I don't have any statistics. It just sort of looks like there are more drunkards around, but they could just simply be more visible....

Driving long distances and bushes go together, of course.

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No-- I think that it is just a difference in social mroes. Europeans think nothing of pissing in public and have been doing it for centuries, but there's a strange mentality voer in the US called "temperance" which is distemperate at best and doesn't consider all the martini lunches and cocktail parties and highballs which they disregard as alcohol. None of that existed here whn I cane and didn't exist in Austria when i lived there, either-- Americans view this as socializing and disregard the consequences of the effects or glorify it with frontpage scandals of celebrities-- and camouflage it with public laws that criminalize watering trees.

beer has been a staple of European diet for a millenia and watering trees is no crime. Kida are put over the curba all the time. It's no big deal.

And admittedly there's a tourism trade in beer, but it's visible in particular sections of a city, but not the overall mentality. We can't help- it if Americans can't make decent beer and corrupt the brew from Budvar.

very nice, I liked it.