Spring week-end in Prague

One of the positive things of my husband's marathon madness that has struck him about a year ago is that we get to see new places. Prague is a city I had wanted to visit a long time already and now in May we finally went there. We arrived late on Friday evening and left very early on Monday morning. The marathon was on Sunday morning, which meant that Armando didn't want to tire himself too much on Saturday and also that he was quite nervous before the marathon. He also had suffered from a tendonitis lately, so he was afraid not being able to finish the marathon. He wanted to pick up his race pack first thing in the morning, but we convinced him to visit the Charles bridge first as I knew it would fill up with tourists later on (and already had when we got there). Then we went up to the castle and saw the St. Vitus Cathedral. At this time the children were hungry and Armando eager to get his race pack, so everyone was a bit nervous. Sofia wanted to have a sandwich at Subway and me and Daniele wanted to take a hot dog in one of the street kiosks. In the end everyone got what they wanted. The hot dog was very good and big and the sausage inside it really tasty. For the race pack we had to take a tram. The rest of the family signed up for the family mini marathon of 4,2 km.
After that we went to see the old town and the lovely old town square with the astronomical clock and the beautiful houses.

Next day Armando left early to run his marathon and we left a bit later. Our run started at 9,30. We managed to run all 4,2 km. Without any training it meant very sore legs for me for the following days. Also Armando managed to finish the marathon and in the afternoon we had a well deserved meal at Starometzska Restaurace at the Old Town Square. My friend, whose mother is from Prague had recommended it and it was very nice! Armando went to our apartment to rest and me and the children went to do some shopping in the shopping street around the Wenceslas Square.
The weather was a bit rainy during the week-end, but it was mostly very slight rain, so you didn't even need to open the umbrella all the time. On Sunday morning it was sunny.