it's easier to imagine franz kafka walking through the city's alleyways at the start of the twentieth century back then prague was a magnet for artists and authors writing in check and german as the city was still a part of the hapsburg empire. and others yes everything's also nice looking so picturesque in the home but underneath the surface there are a few graves a few bodies lying buried on top of one another. and we have to live with these corpses these ghosts of the past in the hilly. yourself the british study czech history and says to do that you need to know german otherwise he'd never have been able to conduct the research for his novel into vats of that stuff or vinterberg last journey it's a comical tribute to train travel central europe and life in general and rudisha wrote it in german. the month's issue. when you look at the map of the railway routes in austria hungary in one nine hundred thirteen and compare it with a map of the routes in central europe today you can see how many are left hold this for what is it i'm told that's all of these routes this station where we

franz kafka it has forty two moving parts they're constantly in motion so it's difficult to take photographs. my culture to is a museum dedicated to the czech artist alphonse mohan he's best known for his stylized and decorative theatrical posters of french stage actress sarah bernhardt . all this walking around has made me quite hungry lumen v.q. restaurant is popular with tourists and locals it's even got its own microbrewery manager of latin maryon show is proud of his country's dear tradition which if i see more of it so like in germany oh ok that's quite a statement i don't. believe for what you try on the shoes or probably instance if you drink more use my own dishes how many types of your do you have here just moments or ten all right i certainly can't try all ten so i think i'll limit myself to just three. now it's time to try some of that hearty check cuisines the portions are huge i'm having roast duck three kinds of dumplings and another beer this is definitely my colon area to prague i'll really be able to sleep well tonight. day two begins at the statue of emperor charles the fo