On the road again

January 7, 2010
On the road to Praha

So as we said goodbye to Vienna, we pressed forward onto Prague, via Terezin, a transit camp for Jews in route to Auschwitz. The bus ride was really pretty, and we made a pretty amazing restroom stop at this place called Excalibur City. It was a restaurant/store/market/recreation complex with HUGE statues (don’t quite know what to call them) of interesting characters. We took lots of pictures for your viewing entertainment. Our favorite is the one we have included here, but you should check out the rest on Becca’s Facebook album called Praha.



We arrived at Terezin and took a tour of the fortress where political prisoners and elderly people were held. We saw group cells, isolation cells, tunnel passages, and propaganda movies from the 1940s. It was very humbling, and we both felt no right to complain that day about anything.

We then went across the little town to the Ghetto Museum, which was a memorial to the children housed there during the Nazi regime. These kids lived in the Jewish ghetto until they were transported to Auschwitz, where a huge majority of them were killed. There were exhibitions of their art around the walls, depicting pictures of “happiness” and “life before the ghetto” and “fairytales.” It was an incredibly sad day.

Now we have arrived in Praha and are very excited and thankful to see the sights tomorrow with the two eyes and two legs that we both have. We all need a little perspective sometimes.