Visiting old town Prague, Czech Republic/Carlos Pueblo

Visiting old town Prague, Czech Republic/Carlos Pueblo

I was at a tram stop and waiting for a line 12 tram to the famous Charles

Bridge of Prague. A nice and pretty young lady chatted with me in a fluent

English about the city. She just returned to the city from a 6 months visit

to Denver, Colorado. She pointed the classical structure of her favorite

along the route of the tram. I was wondering how the city attracted so

many residents and how the city to provide so much job opportunity. She

told me that might be the IT, information technology. She saw me to get off

the tram right in front of the Bridge.

People see the Bridge and remember that distinguished king of Bohemia,

Charles IV. He connected the Prague Castle to the old town square across

the mighty Vltava River. A big crowd already gathered on the Bridge. I

overheard a familiar sound in front of the first bridge tower. Ms. Chu was

with her other two companions passing through the bridge toward the direction

of the old town square. Interestingly to know that she graduated from the

same department same university 10 years after me. We didn’t have too much

time to chat; however, we did exchange our e-mail address for the future

correspondence. I was wondering on the bridge to see every old the 30 statues

and saints where draw the most attention with street artists and vender of

all kinds in between. Portrait artists, even including silhouette, performed their

talent right on the spot, of course with a fee. I saw some business yet most of the

visitors were busy on their photographing for their own memory.

I followed the crowd to pass the third bridge tower near the old town square.

It is a very good size of square center among cathedral churches. A historical clock

tower is there with a huge gathering to watch the time of clock striking. I had taken so many pictures and I had to look them up again to see what I had been seeing around. As a matter

of fact that I had visit  the old town square almost every day of my staying.

Charles IV was the king of Bohemia Kingdom and also was appointed as the emperor of

the Holly Roman Empire. It is very interesting this part of history. Prague was the capitol of

such kingdom and empire where many European ancestors moved in with plenty of job

opportunity just like nowadays U.S. and western Europe. Czech was a classical nation rich

in history and culture. Its arm dealer used to ship assault machine gun to China to arm the

warlord. The old assault weapon ended up in a police office in our neighborhood. A famous

accusation of sedition, involving a classmate’s father, that the accused group attempted to

grasp such Czech assault  weapon for rebellion. It was one of the reason brought me here

for visit and I would like to see if I could visit the old weapon factory one of these days.