Legally Blonde's Proceedings

 December 17th was a bit more of a lazy morning.  I had my "Fred" brioche in the room instead of going down to the hotel breakfast and got ready to head out.  I had to pack up and leave my luggage at the front desk because I was moving on later that day to my next destination. I walked around old town for a bit.  I tried to visit Maisel Synagogue, but you couldn't purchase a ticket to just visit the one, you had to buy a pass for all the Jewish historical locations, and I didn't have the time to see more than the one (plus I'd already visited some 10 years prior).  I walked across the bridge to meet a scheduled tour. Charles Bridge I had a tour for Prague Castle.  I had gone up to the castle my previous trip, but didn't have a proper tour.  This time I did.  We met and then took a tram up to the castle. The most imposing part of the castle is St. Vitus Cathedral. Crossing over Powder Bridge to get to the castle.  I liked their decorations. Ca...

December 16th I woke up early, got ready and went to the hotel breakfast that was included with my stay.  I then walked about 10 minutes to the meeting place for the tour I had booked for the day.  I had a 5 hour tour out to Terezín. Terezín is a Concentration Camp, but it turns out it's more complicated than that, so I'll do my best to explain it here.  Prior to visiting Terezín what I knew about it was that this was the camp the Nazi Regime used for propaganda to convince the International Red Cross and the world that they weren't really doing anything bad to the Jews.  I hoped to learn more about how they did that. Terezín Memorial is really many different sights.  We only made 3 of the stops.  The first thing we saw was the National Cemetery.  This is located in front of the Small Fortress.  It includes individual and mass graves of 10,000 victims of the Gestapo police prison, the Terezín ghetto, the concentration camp in Litoměřice, and ...