While wandering Prague’s streets, you begin to learn some Czech words due to their repetition and context, such as “pozor” (caution) and “zákaz” (prohibited), as you’re often told what not to do (just like anywhere else).
There is a lot of prominent Jewish history in Prague, and the historic Jewish quarter Josefov remains intact today, despite harsh German occupation during World War II and the forced expulsion of all Jews from the district, which had been continuously occupied by Jewish peoples since at least the 10th century. It is because Hitler planned for a “Museum of an Extinct Race” here once the war had ended. Hundreds of thousands of Jewish artefacts were transported to Prague from all over Europe for this museum, and the area was kept largely intact. Sofia lives in this district, and there are many sites on tourist agendas here, including multiple synagogues. There is Hebrew written in many places, and there are Jews living here again, but just a small fraction of the number from before the war. There is a popular cemetery in the district, but there is a much larger one outside the city center which I visited on this trip. It’s a lovely wooded space right beside an even larger Christian cemetery. In the Jewish portion, many famous Prague Jews are buried, including author Franz Kafka.
Delivery of kegs and bottles of beer to restaurants is not enough in this great beer city. Instead, beer (almost always a lager style) is often delivered by trucks with large vats inside, and the beer is pumped into interior retaining containers through dedicated receptacles in building walls. See the example below.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) just happens to be headquartered in Prague now, and I accidentally found it while walking in the new Jewish cemetery (the building is just outside the cemetery). RFE/RL is a private non-profit organization funded by the US government, and it broadcasts and reports news, information, and analysis for specific countries in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the Middle East. RFE says that in these particular countries, “the free flow of information is either banned by government authorities or not fully developed.” (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Europe/Radio_Liberty)
It of course used to broadcast in Czech for Czechoslovakia during Communist years, among many other languages which it no longer broadcasts in, given free flow of information in the now-democracies. But it does continue to broadcast in Ukrainian and Russian, for example. Its annual budget is well over $100 million, and the headquarters I saw seem to be fairly well protected, presumably to fend off those who don’t like free information flow or those who believe that it’s American propaganda that needs to be stopped.
Nighttime photos
Today’s dad joke: What’s it called when there are numerous flowers available for picking within an area of many trees?
A “florest”!
(By the time you read this, I’ll have left Prague. But I’ll be back!) Today’s travel quote:
We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.
Pascal Mercier
Major Meander 
Gosh, the beer truck looks like a gasoline truck!
Same idea, I suppose – transfer liquid from a truck to a retail establishment.