New Year Joyride through Prague

Every year, the first Saturday is the day of New Year Joyride through Prague. It's a tradition few men with Willyses and other old Jeeps started years ago. There are more Jeeps now. And in fact, it doesn't matter that much if you have old or new Jeep.

It all starts at Kampa and the convoy goes and stops at Prague castle, at Jana Palacha square right in front of Rudolfinum, then at Old Town square and finishes at Wenceslas square. Quite a ride.

I don't have to tell you that it causes a lot of excitment everywhere :)

... and here are some photos from this year's Joyride through Prague.

Intimimissimi and the White swan

This Intimissimi (or Intimimissimi as one may easily confusedly say) ad seemed quite Christmassy to me. So here you have it :) With "White swan" written just above it.

The photo below is taken almost at the same place (Wenceslas square) only one hour later. It's getting dark really fast.

Very very winterly and snowy Wenceslas square

It was snowing all the day and it looked like this when the day was almost over. Wenceslas square transformed into the winter wonderland :)

And you should play this song now :)

Kylie Minogue - Let It Snow by kyleongwl

It all will be gone tomorrow.

... as they already started on removing the snow.

... and the rest will turn into mud. OK, it won't be that bad. But winter in the city isn't that much snow-friendly. You know.

Free domek

They have this one in the middle of Wenceslas square. It's a real size model of an almost independent and quite affordable house. And it actually looks chic inside. I guess they can just drop it anywhere you want and you're set to live there :)

Here's a little update with some basic info and their website: www.freedomky.cz

The evening

Flowers, stamps, and the revolution

Flowers at the Svetozor passage.


Stamps shop at the Svetozor passage.


... and Prague was full of reminiscences of the Velvet Revolution. It's a 20 years anniversary today.

Synchronized photographers

Under the horse

Chitchatting under the horse at Wenceslas square.

Shaggy Beetle

Must be fun driving this car :)

Sunday

Going from underground at Wenceslas square. You can see Wenceslas on the horse who is kind of a symbol of the whole square. Long before mobile phones existed when people wanted to meet each other they usually said "meet me under the horse at 8".


Saw this few hours ago and as the photo isn't so obvious I'll tell you about it. There are two homeless men sitting downstairs while those other two nicely dressed play tennis on the terrace. They lost their ball at the moment. That's why the red-sweatered one is looking down. Looked funny while I was passing by. (Must have been much more interesting few minutes before when a bunch of men dressed like sperm, who I met two blocks earlier, walked around. Yep, you heard it right, like a sperm. I know it's weird.)


Thought I'd share with you my into art-artifact turned nikes. The kiss is from the authentic Hollywood burlesque star. Promised to never wash it off.

My lazy ill week is over so expect more regularity in the next one. Being sick really sucks.

New Yorker at Wenceslas square

There are two most used meeting points at Wenceslas square. You either meet under the horse (upper part of Wenceslas square) or as you can see in front of New Yorker store (lower part).

Darling Cabaret street and Casino at Wenceslas square with a lot of colors

Labels or Love

And how did you like Sex and the City.

We got a taste of Europe

These are from the Wenceslas square part of Taste Europe event. I think they should do more concerts in here. Great place for concerts! Too bad they all started so soon. Like Fun Lovin' Criminals from 6 pm on Thursday?

Building a building in a building

This is how they build new hotels in Prague. The front is the original historical front left almost untouched and the inside is absolutely completely new. This one's from Wenceslas square.

PS: If you'd like to see a typical Rome morning you have that chance at Rome Photo Blog in Lunedi' Mattina — Part I and Lunedi' Mattina — Part II.

2009's number 1

Hi! Hope you had a great holidays :) My tradition for Christmas is to be ill and so did happen this time. Which means no snowy wonderland at our cottage in southern Bohemia (well, technically it was snowless anyway) and spending the last day of 2008 with Andy Warhol's book The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again) and all the entertainment 8 channels of Czech and Slovak television can offer. The biggest TV show was broadcasted live from Wenceslas square. Thus the choice of picture for today. Anyhow, I think 2009 will be a good year, don't you?

Wenceslas square

The photo's without description but since there's so many of you photographing in all the places on the Earth, you might be interested in helping with this ubiquity project. Or, at least, you can view Gonzale's photos.

Photo exhibition at and about Wenceslas square

There's a new photo exhibition about Wenceslas square in the lower part of Wenceslas square. With lots of old photos it's quite interesting to see all the changes from the last 50 years. Well worth the visit.

Wenceslas square

Tram at Wenceslas square