O.K. Shoot me, I am negligently late in updating the previous post Re-dedication of Wilson station    We are just having too much fun going places to stay home and focus on blog presentation.  Oh Yes, I also have work to do hosting villas and workshops on Paros.  See my latest web page for a week of Art & Antiquities in Greece.

Karin, however, is quite disciplined at organizing and commenting on her photos in various albums.  I will catch you up with some of those soon, I hope.

Meanwhile here is the unveiled Woodrow Wilson statue.  It is quite magnificent and well placed in front of the main railway station.  By the way, Karin has photos and comments on the station here

The ceremony was quite interesting with relatively short speeches by these dignitaries including President Vaclav Klaus (2nd from right).   However, it was on the long side because everything was said in both Czech and English.  The USA Ambassador was sooo american.

A few days later we decided to drop in on the advertised Wilson/Masaryk exhibition at the New Building of the National Museum.  Whoa, we got there mid-morning and it was closed tighter than a drum despite the open hours sign on the door indicating they should be open.  No explanation that we could see, nor could the other people trying to get in.  What makes this noteworthy is that this is the second time we have visited this building and the second time they were closed during announced open hours.  My message: Don’t trust the National Museum!

The saga continues.  In follow up research the New Building had nothing listed for Wilson but there was an exhibition at the National Memorial on Vitkov Hill.  Plus they too were going to unveil the newly refurbished statue of Jan Zizka, Czech general from the 15th century.  So we hiked up the steep hill for that ceremony.  The exhibition was disappointing because it was a series of sound recordings of political speeches and organised in no order that I could determine from the limited English included.  We did watch an entertaining presentation by three weapons enthusiasts of late medieval sword fighting and the first use of gunpowder.  The statue was certainly impressive; said to be the largest equestrian statue in the world.