Almost A Week in Prague - Part 3

On my last post, we stopped on my third day in Prague around the perimeter of Old Town Square. That was probably around 1 or 2 pm in the afternoon. If you haven't yet, please check out Part 1 and Part 2. 

I continued walking around the Square (which is not square shaped and not even a rectangle!) trying to absorb the overwhelming architectures speckled with ornaments in such detail. Also the number of people (mostly tourists) and everything that's going on there.

They have attractive signage,

Different ways to write the city name 

 Hooters with flat chested and flat butted server (the one that I saw anyway),

Hooters Prague

 Tourists,

 Nice blue sky and curvy road.

 On one of the streets they have a street market called Havelské tržiště | Havelska Street Market. Here you can find a wide variety of things for sale at a better price than in a regular shop in the area, but higher than if you were to buy outside the touristy areas. They have Prague souvenirs, wooden toys, marionettes, spa wafers, chocolate, fruits, vegetables, accessories, and more.

Hanging witch dolls that make laughing sounds.

Standing witch doll

Very attractive fruits and veggies

More fruits and veggies

Mixed berries

More fruits 

Not sure what this is

Marionettes

Hanging wooden dolls

Porcelain dolls with traditional Czech costume

Wooden dolls

On the same street as the Street Market, there was a toy store with Krtek at the front. I thought I'd share the picture. If you don't know Krtek, he is a famous mole from a cartoon originally from Czech but was very popular all over Eastern Europe. DH said he used to watch the cartoon when he was young.

Toy store with Krtek at the front.

Not too far from the street market stood the Powder Tower. They used to store gunpowder there.

Powder Tower

The followings are more pictures from my walk.

From the Old Town Square, I kept walking around and reached the Wencelas Square. Like the Old Town Square, The Wencelas Square was also not square shaped nor rectangular, but more like a very long oval shape. At one end is the National Museum  and the other end is the Estate Theatre area that we went to on the second day. When I came across the same baked sugar dough, I just could not resist. After a little bit of googling, I think it is called a Kurtosh Cake. 

Image from Wikipedia

The stall selling Kurtosh cake

Cutting and rolling the dough in cinnamon and sugar

Baking the dough

Mine, ready to eat!

The taste reminds me of Cinnamon Sugar Pretzel but the dough is thinner and lighter. I liked it.

Darky Gift Store

Buildings at Wencelas Square

Buildings at Wencelas Square

The National Museum

The National Museum new building

The National Museum

Not far from the National Museum is the State Opera building. We had bought tickets for Don Quijote Ballet which will take place there. Very exciting!

The State Opera

So it was time to go back and meet DH, I took the metro from Mustek, yellow line, to the station by our hotel.

Tunnel to the metro station

 And of course, pictures of our dinner :)

Garlic butter toast

Sausages with cabbage, mustard, pickled onions, and ketchup

Steak Tartar

This brings us to the end of day 3. Stay tuned for the next one!