Dancing in Prague

This is where old meets new. The left slightly curved house is Prague's Dancing house (build in the late nineties).

You can read at Wikipedia article about Prague's Dancing house that our former president Vaclav Havel lived nearby. I can confirm this. My aunt was a postwoman in this Prague's district and she was delivering post to Vaclav Havel himself :)

Vaclav Havel is, after all, a writer, too. And a brilliant one. You can check his books and theater plays at Amazon

Do you suck in ballet? You don't have to (... in Prague :)

We were at Hermes presentation of products for new season today. And part of this was a visit to "Ballet Masterclasses in Prague" with Daria Klimentova. Daria is from Prague originally and she is now part of English National Ballet. If you have even a little chance to go and see her, do it. She's wonderful dancer.
(I almost forgot: she's the one in red)

And I bet you can be wonderful dancer, too. Just send your application to Ballet Masterclasses in Prague :)

You can get all information about Daria Klimentova at her website www.dariaklimentova.co.uk (she's a photographer, too).

And you should also look at the actual summer Ballet Masterclasses in Prague's blog. To find out what you are missing :)

One thing you should know before shooting Prague at night

There is one thing that you probably wouldn't think of when you're shooting in Prague centre at night. It happened to us yesterday. It was around midnight and we want to have a quick rest with a coffee (and to visit toilets to told the true :) before entering the second part of our night shooting in Prague's historical centre. And we couldn't find a pub or a cafe that would be open. All of them close at midnight. This was a surprise because Prague is still full of tourist even at this time. But for the good of local residents, they all have to close that soon.

Finally we found *one* cafe at Parizska street (the most expensive street in Prague) where we could stay for a moment. After 30 minutes of searching. So be aware of that and do all your "cafe duties" before midnight. And after that go for a wonderful photo hunt to the streets of Prague.

And what's in the photo: my new friend, shooting with Mamiya 645 on Ilford 3200 iso film (with a few different lenses during the night). He's a really great photographer :)

Felice in Felicia - you can have your own romantic ride in Prague like them

This red convertible is Skoda Felicia - classic Czech car from the sixties. It's quite valuable and quite popular and definitely one of the most beautiful Czech post-war car.

And you can have a ride in this car while you're in Prague. Not exactly this one but there is a service for tourists: sightseeing rides through historical center of Prague in historical vehicles - one of them being this Skoda Felicia (I think they have red and yellow).

You may know the "new" Skoda Felicia. It was build after Volkswagen bought Skoda in the beginning of the nineties - very practical and with cheap parts. Our family have one (in romantic red color :). Now Felicia has its follower in Skoda Fabia - which you should know in case you're from Europe.

Speaking of Skoda, they have like 50% increase in net profit over last year and are producing far more cars every year. Automotive is a big part of Czech industry.

Charles bridge in Prague - the west gate

Entering the Charles bridge from the west.

Nobody in Prague knows more about your money than folks working here

This is the entry to the Prague 1's tax office on Stepanska street. A lot of people was sending them their quarterly VAT tax forms. I knew it because I saw the same address on their letters at the post office while I was sending ours :)

We have a really beautiful main post office at Prague (at Jindrisska street). I have an inside picture of it ... somewhere. I'll try to find it. Well, you can see it on Wikipedia - all four pictures are from Prague's main post office. It is forbidden to take pictures here :)
And, finally, an outside photo in one older post: "Prague's biggest post office"

National theater as one of the bests of Prague

National theater in the days the sun was shinning (that means last week).


By the way, somebody living in our street must have a piano because I can hear it through the window right now. This is kinda new. We can hear a whistle here sometimes. And drums - but that is from our flat. My flatmate Tomas plays them :) Playing drums is very addictive. I fell in love with it the first time I tried it. And then you can here a lot of people going from the pub at night in our street. They usually speak English, sometimes they sing, sometimes they sing very nice, and they are always laughing :)

Going back to the National theater, these are older post with pictures of Prague's National theater.