Sgraffito is the art of incising, or scratching, a design into multicolored layers of plaster.
Photo of the Day: Sculpture of The Moor
Prague has no shortage of hefty, detailed, muscled men adorning the doorways of the city’s palaces, but The Moors are unique, in that they are Moors, quite exotic, and not Bohemian.
Photo of the Day: Back Streets of Kutna Hora
Kutna Hora was vacant. Or at least it seemed to be so.
Photo Of The Day: Wet Cobblestones
I like rain. I spend many months of my life without rain, so that when I travel to other places in the world, I don’t mind having to juggle my umbrella and my camera and my bag.
Photo Of The Day: Kostel sv. Vavrince
We walked by the Kostel sv. Vavrince, begun in the Romanesque style sometime between the years 992 and 1135 and was completed during the high baroque period.
Photo Of The Day: Prague House Painters
These painters looked like acrobats with paint cans and paint brushes hanging from their ropes while they worked their way down the facade of this building.
Photo Of The Day: Out The Window of The New Town Hall
Looking from the tower out onto the roofs and then down onto the street, I thought a little bit about the old Czech tradition of defenestration …
Photo Of The Day: A Little Bit Of Velvet
This is not a beer you want to play games with. It’s a quality drink and hard to find. Even if it is on the menu or the board at a bar or restaurant, it’s still a fifty-fifty chance that they will be out of it. So when in Prague, start your search for Velvet early in your trip, and when you find it, memorize the name and address of the bar …
Photo Of The Day: Prague Street
From the place where this photograph was taken there are two choices to move, well three if you consider standing still. One is to go up the stairs. Up, defying gravity, always a little more difficult than going down, which is the other choice. Although down has its difficulties too.
