Three Good Days by Dennis Hamley
When I look back over the blogs I've written here, it seems that a great number are devoted to telling you what we did on our holidays. Well, I'm sorry about that, but not unrepentant because every visit seems to bring a new insight, a shock which uncovers something I'd never considered before, so that the latest decade of my life seems to have taught me more than all the previous decades put together. Looking back on them after coming home in the small hours of this Friday morning, I saw that our three days in Prague had carried the process further. Prague is a stunning city. The Charles bridge at night. The castle and St Vitus Cathedral in the distance. That's enough travelogue! These were three days of discovery and unexpected epiphanies. The first discovery was the sculpture in the courtyard of the Franz Kafka Museum. It's by David Cerny (you may remember 'Booster Bus', the Routemaster doing press-ups which he did for the London Olympics),...