April 28,2011

At the castle

This morning I headed out to City bike while David was off to the used book shops.  There was a tour which consisted of 3, plus the tour guide. The couple are originally from Australia but now live in London.  Beck is a nurse and 6 months pregnant. James loves to bike.  He has done races prior to and after Tour de France, doing same tour .He has also biked the Alps and Pyrenees. Very nice couple. Anyway our tour went through town then over the Vltava River, through parks and to the Prague Castle.  The guide,Thomas, is from California.  His mother is czech and 5 years ago she moved back then he followed 3 years later. She taught him czech as a child and he speaks it fluently. 

 

 

James, Beck and Thomas with Charles Bridge in Background.                       Tomorrow is to be nice so I'm hoping to get back over and rent a bike for awhile. Of the 2 guys at the bike shop one was a coffee drinker and he gave me the name of 3 places to check out.

  

After riding today I met David and we had lunch in a small square near our apartment before changing and heading over to the Institute of Czech Literature where he gave a talk.  It went very well.  2 of the scholars there will be coming to the College of Cartoon studies in White River Junction, Vt in Sept.  Afterwards we walked back, had dinner on the way and then took a walk.