Saturday, May 22, 2010

European Trip 47

Here are a few more photos from our boat tour in Prague. At one point we had to go through some locks, but there was another boat in front of us and only room for one. So we had a bit aof a wait alongside the park seen above.

Here you see that aforementioned boat with the lock gates closing behind it.

Another of the fancy-fronted buildings so common in the old part of Prague.

It was a rainy day, making the boat tour less than optimal (though the meal that was served was one of the best of our entire trip). Still, it's kind of cool to see umbrellas on bridges like i9n this shot.

This breakwall seemed kind of popular with the pigeons.

I heard that heavy rains in recent weeks have raised the waters in the Vltava up to flood levels, despite the damns and breakwalls. It's another aspect of history that doesn't get the attention it deserves: the effects of weather.

2 comments:

Lil' Sis said...

Dr John,
You better get your eyes checked =)
Those are not pigeons - they are ducks
Lil' Sis

John Hajduk said...

Yeah, and that's after I mentioned all the ducks and swans we saw a couple days earlier-- that's what I get for whipping these things off so quickly...
Dr. John