Werich’s villa and Slavia cafe. A trip to Prague with memories in the rain
Prague is a beautiful place for a trip and a walk through memories even in early autumn. And maybe even on a day when it’s been raining since the morning. We thank Zdenek Gajdůšek for the nice post and photos.
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A walk through Prague at the beginning of autumn.
| Photo: Zdeněk Gajdůšek
When I arrived in Prague this time in mid-September, on the threshold of autumn, the bus was covered in such a torrent of rain that I couldn’t even properly see the repaired building of the National Museum from the main road. Because it was rainy, I went to the Charles Bridge for the first time and from there to the Kampa and to the museum of Mrs. Meda Mládková, I had a voucher for a ticket and it just arrived. I definitely didn’t go there just because it was raining, I like the place and visiting Werich and Holan’s villa was a wonderful experience. I stopped not a few days after the anniversary of 9/11, at the monument to the American firefighters of New York, the heroes of that day twenty-one years ago. I’ve known them near the Charles Bridge since last year.
Then I went to Wenceslas Square, there is a nice exhibition, Wenceslas – from the horse to the subway, which talks about the history of this beautiful place and went for a walk to Staromák, luckily it was just about to stop raining.
Then I continued to the National Theatre. I sat down for a while in the Slavie cafe. You can get a spritzer there for seventy kroner (two bottles of wine for seventy kroner and a soda “for free”) and you can wait there all day for Werich and Voskovec or
and Jiří Grosman with Šimek. As I sat there, I also remembered one winter’s day, perhaps sometime in 1968. I was waiting there for the tram at Národní and next to me stood the grandfather from the fairy tales, Mr. Pešek, who was also coming from “work” across the street from the National Theater, and it was snowing in his beanie.
Zdenek Gajdůšek