{"id":339,"date":"2014-06-21T02:04:26","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T02:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fnerk.com\/?p=339"},"modified":"2018-07-04T15:31:52","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T15:31:52","slug":"praguedresden-day-8-concluded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fnerk.com\/?p=339","title":{"rendered":"Prague\/Dresden Day 8: Concluded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The highlight of Day 8 was the food tour, but that ended at 4, and we didn&#8217;t just go back to our hotel room and fall into a food coma.\u00a0 From the dropoff point we wandered up into a park on the west side of the river which had a beautiful view of the city, and failed to ride the funicular railroad for the second time on our trip.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fnerk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-06-21-16.28.55.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-340\" title=\"2014-06-21 16.28.55\" src=\"https:\/\/fnerk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-06-21-16.28.55-1024x579.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fnerk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-06-21-16.28.55-1024x579.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/fnerk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-06-21-16.28.55-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fnerk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-06-21-16.28.55-500x282.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From there, we walked up the hill to Prague castle, featured in the last picture of the previous Day 8 post.\u00a0 We didn&#8217;t go into any buildings, just wandered around the various courtyards lookin&#8217; at stuff.\u00a0 Of which there was definitely some.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/fnerk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-06-21-17.40.26.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-341\" title=\"2014-06-21 17.40.26\" src=\"https:\/\/fnerk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-06-21-17.40.26-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fnerk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-06-21-17.40.26-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/fnerk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-06-21-17.40.26-579x1024.jpg 579w, https:\/\/fnerk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-06-21-17.40.26.jpg 1520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From there we walked through the palace gardens, which feature not one, but two different structures designed to grow completely inappropriate fruit for the Czech climate.\u00a0 Neither of which we photographed, for some reason.\u00a0 Instead, here&#8217;s us standing in front of the Prague:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fnerk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-06-21-19.12.08-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-342\" title=\"2014-06-21 19.12.08-4\" src=\"https:\/\/fnerk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-06-21-19.12.08-4-1024x579.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fnerk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-06-21-19.12.08-4-1024x579.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/fnerk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-06-21-19.12.08-4-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fnerk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-06-21-19.12.08-4-500x282.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As we made our way along the hills north of town, we came to a plaza which apparently used to house a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stalin_Monument_%28Prague%29\">giant statue of Stalin<\/a> pretending to be on a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/One_Step_Beyond...\">Madness album cover.<\/a> It now has a giant metronome, which is only slightly less weird.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fnerk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-06-21-19.14.49.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-344\" title=\"2014-06-21 19.14.49\" src=\"https:\/\/fnerk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-06-21-19.14.49-1024x579.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fnerk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-06-21-19.14.49-1024x579.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/fnerk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-06-21-19.14.49-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fnerk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-06-21-19.14.49-500x282.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also a whole lot of skateboarders.\u00a0 By this point we were pretty beat, so we headed back into town, where we finished our day with the traditional Czech delicacy of pizza.\u00a0 One final thing to give you nightmares &#8211; this sculpture of Kafka riding a headless man which is not, oddly enough, by David Czerny.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/fnerk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-06-21-20.07.09.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-345\" title=\"2014-06-21 20.07.09\" src=\"https:\/\/fnerk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-06-21-20.07.09-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fnerk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-06-21-20.07.09-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/fnerk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-06-21-20.07.09-579x1024.jpg 579w, https:\/\/fnerk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-06-21-20.07.09.jpg 1520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Things Pointed At: 2<br \/>\nAmazing Food Consumed: Much<br \/>\nGeocaches found: Many fewer than looked for<br \/>\nFunicular Railroads Ridden: Still 0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The highlight of Day 8 was the food tour, but that ended at 4, and we didn&#8217;t just go back to our hotel room and fall into a food coma.\u00a0 From the dropoff point we wandered up into a park &hellip; 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