In Prague and Running it!

Hey Space Cadets!

I arrived in Prague with minimum fanfare yesterday. The usual adoring crowds completely noticable by their abscence. There was a fair bit of traffic and some blowing snow as my taxi brought me into the city. I arrived at the Hotel Jalta on Wenceslas Square, upacked and crashed for a couple of hours. Did a walkabout of the city in the afternoon and then slept again before going out to have dinner at a nearby restaraunt which featured a pretty good jazz quartet. Had a nice pork steak (the local meat), with a salad and some potatoes. I took the picture shown here (click on it to see the detail) as I was out for dinner, it shows Wenceslas Square at night - very pretty.

This morning up and had a nice continental breakfast, grabbed a map and got onto map my run and laid out a 6.5 km route which included going up through old town square, across the Vltava River, a run along under the castle and then up onto the Charles Bridge, over along the Vltava again to the national theater, up to the national museum and through the park around it back to my hotel. If all goes well a slide show of this should be on the blog tomorrow.

Anyway it was a great run - by concidence my Garmin GPS watch rated the distance as 6.66 km and given that I am not religious, a numerologist or superstitious, the perversity of the number just makes me smile.

Today's song of the day was Bryan Ferry's version of Bob Dylan's All along the Watchtower. We had no winner on last week's contest - shocked and stunned that I am that nobody could check wikipedia and find out the name of the band Cheap Trick and its members.

Today's question is a bit easier. Bryan Ferry played with the band Roxy Music - who was their original keyboardist? Send your answers to pmackin1959@gmail.com

Stay tuned for more news from Prague - Dieter and Harvey arrive tomorrow. More on that later.

Paul