Prague

After a long 8 hour bus trip to Prague, most of us were tired out and it was not really the way I would choose to spend my birthday. I would prefer to fly! Prague is a very beautiful city but I felt it didn't quite match Budapest. We had a lovely hotel room which did help but we probably didn't make the best of our time there. We did a trip out to the Terezin Concentration Camp about an hour out of Prague. The Camp has been very well preserved and our excellent guide showed us through the buildings where you could see the kind of dreadful life the people interred there led. It was very sobering viewing. Then we were taken to the Terezin Museum where there was a fabulous exhibition showing the Terezin Jewish Ghetto. The Nazis decided to make Terezin a Jewish ghetto and expelled all the residents of Terezin to make it happen. During the war, over 135,000 people lived in the ghetto and were gradually sent away to be exterminated. A room displaying the poetry and art of the children of the ghetto was very moving.