Prague city at night

[stemai]

A few pics of Prague at night. All taken from the astronomical clock tower. Not the best quality as i forgot to pack my tripod before leaving England



Old town square





Prague castle





Opera house



And finally this was taken from Charles bridge



Hope these were of interest to someone ?
thanks for looking ste

[digit]

Great shots Ste, did you get any shots of the astronomical clock? There was an interesting article on it in the Horological Journal a few months back.

GC

[stemai]

I managed this one in the day from side on



And a front on pic at night

[digit]

Thanks Ste, I'd love to get to Prague to see it.

GC

[ronturner]

Nice photos which bring back fond memories.

In 1991, just after the fall of the communists in Czechoslovakia, as it was then, I joined a company with head office in Ostrava, east part of the country, to work on a cable TV system. The job lasted for 6 years. We were very successful. It was hard at times, but great fun and financially rewarding, not to mention the travel all over that country. Countless trips in TU-134's and TU-154s, included once flying in the RH seat. (Impossible to imagine now) and flying into every airport in the country. I even managed to get some flying from a grass airfield in a Zlin 43

My first visit to Prague started with a TU-154 flight from Heathrow. I landed at night, about 8pm, My hosts picked me up in an old Skoda Favorit and drove me to a dark dingy side street where we abandoned the car and started to walk. (I thought..oh my gosh, now what?..or something similar..)
We turned a corner and entered into one of Prague's famous squares. Illuminated in all of its glory. What a stunning surprise. We walked for an hour or more from one part of the city to another, from square to square, all full of glorious architecture and illuminated. I shall never forget it.

A couple of trips later, I took my wife and treated her to the same experience. She will never forget it either and we fell in love with that country; something which endures to this day.

Now Prague is full of tourists and its changed a lot. You cannot buy a beer for 12p, but do not be put off by that. A truly great city, one of many beautiful cities and towns, in a wonderful country, populated with nice people and stylish, attractive women.

[Deleted]

Nice photos stemai, despite not having the tripod.

Yes, I agree with your comments, Ron. It looks so much better now it's lit at night. I used to go there in the old days, and despite the lovely architecture there was only a 40-watt bulb lighting the whole of Wenceslas Square, or so it seemed! It was always a cut above the other Eastern Bloc countries. You could get decent food (and beer!), people were surprisingly friendly and thing generally worked. I went back a few times post-perestroika and saw the early improvements, and I'm not surprised that it became as popular as it did.

Many other cities in Eastern Europe are now lit very tastefully at night. Moscow is a great example of this, as is Budapest.