We are so grateful that the Czechs have had babies while we were gone and have realized that children need playgrounds. I'm sure there were some playgrounds around 10 years ago, but we certainly didn't notice many (not that we were looking too hard for them). But now they are all over the place!
There's our main one by the Main Train Station - one tram stop away.
Today the girls and I went to Vysyhrad (site of the old castle - now a topped by a very cool Art Deco church and a graveyard full of important dead people like Dvorak and Smetana). We found a small older playground on the walk up the hill, and then a very cool new playground right at the top near the really, really (I can't remember how many 'really's) old round church. At first I thought it was a Wild West theme of forts and stockades (the Czechs have a thing for the American Wild West thanks to an author who made up stories about Indians...) but then I realized that it was based on Old Czech foundation myths. How cool is that - to build a playground based on the Czech equivalent of the Aeneid on the site where Prague was originally founded!
There's another playground up a hill from our apartment. David took the girls, but I haven't been there yet. It is situated between two beer gardens. That could be fun. Or dangerous.....
14.5.08
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