The Mirror Chapel Tickets and Tours

Classical Music Tour with Concert and dinner

Six Stars

This was our last evening in Prague before returning home. We met Martin at the Charles the 4th statue at the east end of the Charles Bridge, visited the adjacent St. Francis Of Assisi Church, and spent a couple of hours walking the streets of Old Town, focusing on the sites where Mozart and Beethoven had played, as well as other points of interest relating to music. We attended a concert at the Mirror Chapel in the Clementinum, a beautiful hall. The concert was classical music top 40, played in abridged versions for the longer pieces, by a chamber group, with the organ playing solo for a couple of pieces, and combing with the chamber group for one selection. The chamber group was very good, and the vocal soloist had an excellent voice. Their version of "Die Moldau" or "Vltava" from Má Vlast was rather jarring to anyone familiar with the piece (4 minutes vs. the usual 12), but, okay, musical completeness was not what this experience was about. We then went to dinner at a local restaurant favored by our host. The food was very tasty, typical Czech fare, with plenty of beer to wash it down. So from the sound of it so far, a nice, standard sort of tour. But it was more than that because of Martin, an enviably multilingual guy, who engaged us from the start, and our tour evolved into a cultural conversation of the most enjoyable sort. And at dinner, we were joined by his in-laws, Jim and Debbie, visiting from the States, and later by his wife, Kate, and dinner turned into a thoroughly convivial event. Being a tourist can be difficult at times due to not knowing the language or the cultural norms or how to get from point A to point B, but the mark of a place worth visiting is how welcome you feel when you're there. I don't believe, in all the traveling I have done, that I have ever felt more welcome. So thank you, Martin, for a most memorable tour!

Prague Highlights in Half a Day

Wonderful evening

Fabulous evening. A brilliant tour of the city with lots of history explained. The dinner cruise was amazing. Fantastic food and relaxed atmosphere. Would definitely recommend.