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Thursday, May 18, 2006

The World Famous Astronomical Clock


About 10 minutes before the hour throngs of people start crowding around this Astronomical Clock in the Old Town Square. The first time you think you are going to see all kinds of bells and whistles but nope, all you get is the little skeleton ringing a bell and the two blue windows open up and a procession of the apostles' faces go by, each looking down as if to admonish you about wasting time (such as congregating at big clocks). It takes all of about one minute and ends with a "Toot toot!"....except it sounds kind of like "pfut pfut"....very anticlimatic. I would never tell anyone to not go see this, just don't get your expectations up. And besides, I don't know how you could visit Prague and not end up in the Old Town Square at some point.

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