Prague | Musings on Momentum

After four blissful days in Amsterdam it was time to move on to a city I was very much looking forward to visiting, Prague. I had wanted to travel to Eastern Europe for well over a decade, specifically to the Czech Republic. The region always held a certain mystique for me and when we began planning our honeymoon I knew I wanted Prague on our list of destinations.

That desire coupled with the fact that the Prague Opera was performing Bizet’s Carmen, an opera I had long loved, dictated that we hop on a plane to spend a whirlwind of a 36 hours in Prague. I knew it was a lot of traveling to do for very little time in a destination, but I was determined to experience as much as Prague as I could. Ideally a snow covered Prague.

Prague Castle at night

You know the old adage “Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it”? Well, Prague offered a shining example of just why I ought be a little more careful about what I wish for. Leading up to our trip I was very vocal about wanting to experience cold weather and snow. I packed long underwear, I carried a wool pea coat across the ocean with me, I was prepared! Or so I thought. It turns out that nothing could have prepared this LA girl for Eastern European temperatures and snow.READ MORE »

We are off to Europe for our honeymoon in just twelve days. Excitement hasn’t quite set in yet…perhaps because there is so much that still has to get done between now and then. I don’t think our upcoming European adventure will feel real until we say goodbye to little Lola on Christmas morning. That will be followed by days of tears, my insistence that I don’t want to go and that the honeymoon must be cancelled, then my final acceptance and inevitable excitement the night before our departure, likely resulting in me not getting one wink of sleep. So it goes.

Though the temperatures are starting to dip into the 40’s in Los Angeles, officially qualifying as unbearably chilly, it is still hard to believe that it is full blown winter in some parts of the world. Parts that I’ll be traveling through in less than two weeks. To remind me of this, and to get me into the holiday spirit in general, I’ve been going through photos of European winter wonderlands like the ones below.

Winter bicycling in Amsterdam

Honeymoon Stop Two – Prague in the Snow

European Winter Wonderlands