Life in The Fingers of Rain of Prague

My photo was featured in the daily photo challenge held by a travel agency in Prague @czechglobalhosts (https://steemit.com/travel/@czechglobalhosts/59ud59-prague-czech-republic-wednesday-photo-challenge-share-your-personal-pictures-from-your-visit-to-the-czech-republic ) (Thank you!!!) , so today I put some more from my stay in Prague from 2014-2015.

I studied there a year, mainly the language and history of modern art in Prague (tak umím česky aspoň trošku). But actually, I think I learned everything about life there. Friendship with people who have the very different background and worldview (and its limit), how you could be a political person (well, Japan is a country where it's very difficult to be a political person. Maybe I'll write about it later), and artists and poets in Prague showed me that imagination is the most important thing that you should protect from every kind of power (well that's a looong story short...maybe I'll write about it sometime).

Here are some of my favorite off-tourist places:

Letohrádek Hvězda, in Prague 6, pretty near to our student dormitory. It is a cute summerhouse, originally owned by Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria.

It's František Bílek's villa. Bilek was a Christian-symbolist sculptor in the end of the 19th century. He designed this unique house and fascinating furniture by himself.

Gems on the street.

Cafe Montmartre, it was a quiet, tiny spot for local people in the center of the touristic old town. They served tea in a Japanese pot for some reason at that time :D

And lovely tramvaje!

Hundred-spired Prague
With the fingers of all saints
With the fingers of perjury
With the fingers of fire and hail
With the fingers of a musician
With the intoxicating fingers of women lying on their backs
On the abacus night...

(Vítězslav Nezval, City of Spires, in Edwald Osers (trans.), Prague with Fingers of Rain, Bloodaxe Books, 2009. )