Prague

Bavaria competes with Bohemia in beer quality. But Prague is miles ahead in coffee. But that's OK cause nobody's eager to rise and shine after an Oktoberfest night anyways. Pictures of coffee are pretty worthless. 

But it was pretty darn good. We started out staying with the hipsters of the neighborhood Vinohrandy. Somehow this is the third apartment that we've stayed in that is rented by someone in film. Here's to hoping they didn't have the cameras rolling on us. There are always cameras out in the tourist magnet Stare Maestro neighborhood where we spent two nights when we decided to stay an extra two nights. It's gotta be the biggest, most well preserved old town of a big European city. 

It's also one of the most picturesque. 

This stuff is everywhere. 

It only gets worse at night. The Stones came here right after the wall fell and they left behind there lighting technicians and about $100,000 to show the castle at night. Seems like the rest of the city caught on after that.

Today Prague still has great engineers. 

But like most places they could use a few more Borns and Schoenfelds. The Nazis didn't help that cause. Here we are on the memorial list of the 80,000 murdered Czech Jews in one of the former Synagogues. 

That'll make the old days when there was just very little room to bury the dead seem not as bad. 

The day before a man invited Ali and I to have a bar mitzvah and bat mitzvah and celebrate Yom Kippur. I would have made a better effort to attend if I had already seen this. I'm not sure when I will be invited to Yom Kippur and my own bar mitzvah in Prague again but in the meantime I have other ways of dealing with my emotions. 

Why would anyone ever serve a hot chocolate that is anything but heated chocolate?