13/6/19 Xrays , the bus and the Castle

We started the day with an earlyish morning as we needed to be at the Dr surgery again at about 8.30 (when they open) to get some Xrays taken.

This morning Trev's arms seemed so much better that we asked them not to do the shoulder Xrays they had planned and his abdomen seemed OK (except the rib area) so we asked them not to do the ultrasound.  We figured if his spleen was going to do something nasty it would have done it by now.
Given hindsight maybe this was not a good call.

The process of getting this all done took a couple of hours  (by which time we had missed the opportunity to go on the walking tour of Prague) and involved him getting himself up and down from an xray table , sitting up; and taking clothes off and on without assistance, which was all extremely painful. 

We shared the waiting room with American softball players - one of whom was  complaining of a painful hand after a hard catch (he also went for Xrays)

In the end the verdict was that at least one rib is broken that they can see clearly. His coccyx is also a bit out of alignment, but not so bad that they want to do anything about it.

As we emerged from the Drs surgery we met our guide Zsolt  who had got all the others on to the tour and then come on to us to see how it was all going.

We decided to hop on one of the hop on - hop off buses (since we were restricted for action) . This proved to be a pretty good choice as we managed to see lots of Prague centre from the buses and also learn a bit about Prague from the commentary.

Zizkov TV tower with a hotel and bar built in and fibreglass babies crawling up the sides!!

Good King Wenceslaus lived here!!!

We got off at the bus at the castle with half an hour to spare before the walking tour we had planned for. It was just enough time for a quick loo stop and a bit of lunch before we discovered that we had a guide to ourselves!! Lucky us.  The guide was a bloke in his early 30s probably who loves his country and his history. He was excellent at teaching us more and gave us a really interesting tour considering that the gardens and cathedral were both closed. He deviated from the plan and took us down to the city viewing area over the castle walls, and then to the senate gardens (which are simply fantastic) before leaving us.
We meandered through the senate gardens and found our closest hop on bus stop, just jagging a bus before it left the stop.

Guard standing still at the castle. 

St Vitus Cathedral  - took over 500 years to build.  King Wenceslas is buried here . (his skull is carried in a procession each year in September apparently) 

the oldest part of the cathedral 

view from the castle walls to the trees in the senate garden below where we ended up. 

the senate garden

the orchestra were practicing for a performance under the amazing shelter of the senate building. 

looking up under the "verandah" 

the dancing house which is said to be styled on Fred Astair and Ginger Rogers.  (side view as we came over the bridge)  - built after the original building here was bombed. 

By now Trev was pretty worn out, so we hopped off as close as we could and headed home for a rest before dinner with the bunch.

We shared a lovely bottle of red and some snacks with Peter and Pam (who are sharing our apartment with us) before heading out to a traditional Czech place chosen by our trip leader.  Good food.

A long hard day for Trev.  I'm pretty sure he only did that much because he didn't want me to miss out.