The original plan for Prague had a list of things to do, not a list fixed in stone mind you just a rough sort of list. The kind of list you have when you go shopping, it’s variable depending on what you see, what strikes you as interesting, flavoursome or just totally different so you have to add it to the list. Just like the grocery list we checked it off as we went.
See big Czech Castle and Church……… Czech!
See exhibition of world class photographer……….Czech!
Cecil Beaton social climbing photographer to Monarchs and Stars.
What Cecil Beaton Said of Sir Michael Phillip Jagger :
“Lips of a fantastic roundness, body white and almost hairless. He is sexy, yet completely sexless. He could nearly be a eunuch. As a model he is a natural. There are moments when little is said but a few grunts, tough banalities, but much is sensed. I feel he is his real self.”
Mick basically said of Cecil Beaton “…he wore a nice white suit and matching fedora and took pretty good pictures”
See Czech Hare Krishna marching band……….Czech!
See Loony Tunes Czech political protester………Czech!
We also Czeched out these things to day:
Ther are lots of statues in Prague, my favourite commemorates Alfredo di Lelio who is credited with the invention of modern fettuccine. According to family accounts, in 1892, Alfredo di Lelio began to work in a restaurant that was located in piazza Rosa in Rome and run by his mother Angelina. Di Lelio invented “fettuccine Alfredo” in 1908 in an effort to entice his wife, Ines, to eat after giving birth to their first child Armando. Our late and great friend Renato Tardiani would no doubt have been able to confirm these facts.
The statue depicts Alfredo in early attempts at getting the fettuccine “al dente”.
Thinks. “I should have stuck with the spaghetti”
By the way there seems to be a lot of Chinese visiting Prague. I suggested to Jen that they were Chinese Czeckers but then wondered if that was politically correct? Oh well.
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