For my birthday treat John took me to Prague for the weekend. 

We both found it very interesting discovering how the city had changed since our visits in 1986 and 1992.

Our hotel was very central and was near the municipal concert hall
and gun powder store tower.

We strolled through the old town, Staré Město and couldn't help but be impressed by the beautiful buildings. Neither of us remember them being so clean and colourful.

We walked around the old town square and saw the astronomical clock.

The lower part contains the signs of the zodiac and on the hour a procession of the twelve apostles appears in the upper window.

After all that excitement we moved to some of the quieter streets and stumbled across more beautiful buildings, 

...churches 

...and archways

which lead to more onion spires.

We approached the Charles Bridge over the River Vltava.

View of the Charles Bridge (Karlov Most) from Legii Most

Me on the Charles Bridge with the tourists, artists and buskers

Over the bridge is the entrance to Prague castle, Prazsky hrad

The castle grounds contain the Old Royal Palace

and St. Vitus cathedral. 

This is where we, The Manx Youth Choir sang many moons ago. Great acoustics! (There will now be a short pause as I walk down memory lane....!)

Back to the present day outside down by the River Vltava.

On the left of this picture you can just see the Petrin Look Out Tower, a smaller version of the Eiffel Tower

Several other changes we noticed included 

the price of the pivo, Pilsener Urquell:
1986 - 12 pence a pint
1992 - 25 pence a pint
2002 - 50 pence a pint.

 na zdraví!!