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He was Andrew Warhola

Greetings fron the Czech Republic, We had our last day in Prague.   We have started pedalling away and toward.  Dresdin, Germany.  I will tell you how that is going in my next post. Prague has been educational, but not as much as it would be if my brain was younger and could soak in more. Our first day in Prague we visited the Prague Castle complex. The second day we went to the Old Town Square and heard the noon bells ring all over, and saw the Astronomical Clock.  I took a video . We then just wandered around. Soon we came to  a museum featuring Dali and Warhol.  So we spent a couple hours there. It wasn't original artwork but limited prints. Andy published the Interview magazine, designed album covers, made movies, besides the Marilyn Monroe Prints  and Cambell's Soup  Can paintings. I didn't know that Andy Warhol's parents were from the Czech area.  They moved to Pensylvania and his father worked in the mines. He changed his name to ...

Prague Castle

 We left Berlin on Thursday and took a direct train to Prague. Then we found our way to Info and got directions to get on Tram 8 to get to our motel. The hotel is one that our next bike tour starts from.  We will get our briefing and bikes on Sunday. The building is impressive.  It was built in 1950. We walked in the front doors and we were impressed.  Steve got all excited about the 1950 CZ motorcycle. Once we got in the room we put our card key in the slot to work the lights. I used Google maps and found a poke bowl place we could walk to for supper. On the way we passed some excited kids working trains on an elaborate track set up. The Poké Bowl had just opened for business three days before.  It was a good meal. The kids were still working the model trains when we walked back to the motel. The tracks were in front of what looked like a technical school. On Friday we took the tram to get to the castle district. We entered the area by climbing a lot of stairs....