Lots happened today which I will expand on later. Basically today was a day for art, history, and music. The art was the city itself anf the Art Deco museum based on Mucha on of the founders of this school. The history was a tour of the Museum of Communism which documents Czech history from before WWII to the Velvet Revolution in 1989. The music was a chamber music perfomance by members of the Czech Philharmonic - a best of series including Mozart, Strauss, etc. all performed in the very regal Rudolphinium hall.
I will be writing more about recent Czech history but a little lightness now. Monty Python fans are quite familiar with the common MP segway "And now for something completely different" often featuring one of the Pythons sitting naked playing an organ. We we think we found the inspiration for this today. Turns out that Gauguin and Mucha were roommates for a time and here is photo taken in their studio (no lie - this is right off the website at
http://www.muchashop.co.uk/acatalog/info_5.html)
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