Ghosts ...

With the temperature at -13 degrees, we joined a "Ghost Trail" tour on Wednesday night. Promising "true" ghost stories and legends (I feel a Tui ad coming on here) - and a surprise or two - it was actually pretty lame, and we nearly froze despite all the layers. When the "Mad Butcher" leapt out of the shadows with a rubber knife behind the Tyn Church, he wasn't prepared for the fact that Grant and another guy on the tour would react like anyone would who had a mad-looking assailant leaping at them - Grant socked him in the jaw and the other guy kneed him in the stomach! It all ended with profuse apologies, but I sure wouldn't want that job night after night!

Prague in the sun is an even more beautiful looking city than Prague snowing. We had the day to ourselves on Thursday wandering around the bits that warranted a second look. I went to a chamber orchestra concert at the St Salvator church (complete with heated seat pads, but I still needed to keep all my layers on), and listened to a program of wonderful well-known classical music. Later we got a different sort of culture by seeing the movie "The Social Network" - good timing since Facebook's founder has just been announced as Time Magazine's Man of the Year, and a really good movie. 


Any thoughts that Berlin would be warmer have been scotched. It snowed during our entire journey by train next to the Elbe and back into Germany, and Berlin is totally covered in snow...