Praha

College is over, the Matura is all done and I went on a final trip with my class to Prague! We had such a good time with each other and saw many cool things :)

Prague is a beautiful city, it reminded me a lot of Zürich, not only because of the style the buildings have but also because the whole place seemed so well organised and clean.

I'll write this blog in a different fashion. I'll do paragraphs of text with pictures in-between, I think this way it's way more fun to read :)

Somehow I started taking pictures of different walls in Prague, don't know why but I thought it's a fun way to show something that not everyone notices and takes pictures of. And I must say there were some pretty cool walls all around the city ;D

I walked up the hill in Prague on the second day to get a view over the entire place, and the sight from the tower was just breathtaking; one could just see everything the city has to offer. I took this panorama picture which I stitched together using PTGui, maybe you need to click on it and zoom in to see every detail ;)

One day we visited the "Gallery of Art" which lies in the centre of the old town. The exhibition was about Dali, Mucha and Warhol. There were really cool paintings, prints, and other objects from and about the artists.

One of my best friends recommended a modern art gallery called "DOX", which was about twenty minutes from our apartment. And it was a great choice to visit, I'd recommend it to everyone who likes a bit of funky modern stuff and weird mannequins with toys glued to them ;)

The DOX Museum of Modern Art also had this amazing Zeppelin, crafted out of wood to create a really cool environment for talks and concerts! One day; one day I'll perform there ;D

Last but not least, I visited the Museum of Czech Cubism. It's an art style from the early 1900's, and even though it's this old it still looks so fashionable and stylish! The exhibition included furniture, paintings and models of buildings; and a really cosy café with the best hot chocolate I had in quite a while!

More really funky walls from the cubism-museum ;)

The last spot I visited, just a few hours before flying back to Switzerland was an art gallery called "The Museum of Decorative Arts" in the Jewish part of the city. There was an exhibition about the Czech photographer named Josef Koudelka which I recommend everyone to check out!

Altogether I would recommend everyone to visit Prague!

Paris

So, I haven't posted for a while, but now it's time again!

Last Sunday Philip and I went to Paris for a couple of days, just until our classmates from our music class arrived too. We thought, if we go to Paris, we won't only go for four days, but stay two days longer!

In those two days, we did a lot of cool things! Next to visiting some touristic attractions like "La Tour Eiffel" or "L'Arc de Triomphe", but we also went to the "Jardin de Plantes", a huge park with lots of interesting museum-like "La Grande Gallerie d'évolution" and a huge dinosaur museum!

Besides that we also spent half a day in the "Centre Georges Pompidou", one of the coolest modern-art museums I know. After waiting in line for quite some time, we finally got to look at the great exhibitions and drink a hot chocolate at the top of the place!

By the time the others arrived, we've already checked in to the second Airbnb; a lovely place which was totally made for a big group! After jamming a little bit with the others, we went to see a concert called "Swing Lenny" in the "Philharmonie de Paris". I enjoyed it a lot because it had a lot of nice harmonies and the funky polyrhythms.

We also went to a museum which had a chronological exhibition with instruments from historical times to modern synthesizers and other electronic instruments.

We also visited the opera and saw two other concerts in the theatre of Paris. "Dialogues des Carmelites" and a Beethoven Concerto.

The last thing Philip and I did, while the others went onto the "Arc de Triomphe" was to go to the "Galerie de Paléntologie". There they had enormous skeletons of whales and dinosaurs which was quite impressing!

Altogether the trip was really nice, the concerts were amazing and we had a lot of fun together!