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EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED

PRAGUE

Story and photographs by Michael Burge

S ometimes our best-made plans are Spring Music Festival, and we wanted to
outdone by unscripted moments,
take advantage. We took a tram to the
which is one of the joys of travel.
Charles Bridge, which we crossed to get to
the concert hall. The bridge was packed
My wife and I were visiting
Prague as part of a Road Scholar
by the minute, with many leaning over the
tour, “Independent Prague: Architecture with a crowd of people that was expanding
and the Arts,” and we had bought tickets to north railing. We pushed through and
a concert at the Rudolfinum, the city's glo- looked over the balustrade to see what ev-
rious 19th-century concert hall. Our tour eryone was looking at, but could not make
coincided with the first week of Prague’s it out. This was one of those moments when

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