PRAGUE – GUILT IN THE GOLDEN CITY

We were at high mass on a summer Sunday in Prague, sitting below a large bishop in a swingy skirt bottomed off with gold bootees, and thinking that his moves had a sort of stripper quality to them. Not very Catholic thoughts, perhaps, but we were at St Jacobus on Mala Stupartská behind Old Town Square, a church with a certain beauty to it, the full-flush kind of Peter Paul Rubens and Scarlett Johansson. We bobbed, bowed, knelt and struggled to work out where the hell we were in a service conducted in Czech. Read the full article…

FT WEEKEND – TRAVEL: Guilt in the golden city
By Justin Hardy, Financial Times
Published: Aug 25, 2007