swings and roundabouts?

We have just returned from Prague. The ongoing saga of the Charles Bridge is a pain, just how long does it take to finish the work on it for heaven sake, gave that a wide birth, again! Grafitti merchants making a right mess of the newly painted subway, but not so many homeless folk to be seen, could be because we saw police moving them on. Klobenova outdoor market/car boot could have seen us ripped off well and proper had not one of us been able to speak the lingo, if you do go then make sure you have a pen %26amp; paper/calculator to write down the amount you want to haggle for, some of the stuff was ok but most was shanny. Found the Anthropoid Monument very impressive and easy to get to, unfortunately if you don%26#39;t know the history behind what you are looking at too bad because all the info there is in Czech.

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I think it%26#39;s going to take many more years to complete the Charles Bridge refurbishment.

The monument you went to see, would you recommend to visit?

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thats the nature of old monuments,they take a lot of time to repair.

the Bridge was quite badly damaged during the great flood of 2002,I was there at the time and was quite suprised that the bridge was not destroyed completely.

Now if you want to see how to really mess up a city with massive works come to my home city of Edinburgh where we are havinga new tram line built through the city centre,already at least a year behind shedule and massively over budget,so we have at least another 3 years of unheaval before the work is due for completion.

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It took something like 500 years to build the bridge in the first place, so 12 or so years spent stopping it crumbling into the Vltava is pretty good going...

Glad you found the Anthropoid monument - as with most places all around the world (Britain not excluded), information tends to be given in the language that is used in that country however, as you rightly note, you need to read up on the history of a lot of places in Prague. If you are particularly interested in this event, then I suggest you see this film en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atent%C3%A1t_%28film%29