divider (our window's open). Here's the view from where I worked Thursday
morning 
and here's
the room the MP was in 
. Just outside it was the "internet point" where people without laptops
could check their mail 
. This is one of the souvenir shops 
-- we hadn't realized how much glass there was here, or what wonderful
stuff there is. This is pretty nondescript compared to most of what we
saw. Here's the hotel registration desk 
-- note the shininess of everything -- and here's the bar I was at all
morning. That guy's taken my table 
, so I had to move across the hall, here 
. Then it was lunchtime, and we went outside 
afterward to sit in the sunshine by 
the fountain 
.
This is the conference help desk, where Karel 
, our trusty correspondent from EasyPrague (the travel agency who arranged
the whole conference), helped with logistics, including getting us our
tickets for Lanterna Magika and the Mozart Requiem.
After the last conference session, we met in the lobby and Anne caught up on the day's email
across the hall from yet another water feature 
and below the light fixture I described in an email 
. After a suitable interval we caught the bus, then the Metro, then a tram,
and arrived at the National Theatre, on the river near the island 
where the buses had parked the night before (and noticed this weird stairway 
to nowhere -- what, we wondered, could be in there?). Around the corner
we spotted this restaurant 
, which offered us this view 
of the river and which we determined to 
patronize 
, with
this result 
. It
was even better than it looked -- and this Bud (note the glass), which
was for us, actually, is not an American one. It's totally different: the
original Budweiser is a Czech beer and the name was lifted by the American
company. This one's a Czech pilsner and is wonderful. We then went back
round the corner to the amazing Laterna Magika [check it out here;
we got no pictures], and eventually wended our way back to the hotel where
we immediately sat down with the laptop 
and a Krušovice (a Czech dark beer which is even better than the pilsner)
to write George Fry and thank him for telling us not to miss Laterna Magika.