Cruising the Vltava

Students Pavel (from the Czech Republic) and Marija (from Macedonia) organized a boat trip on the Vltava River through Prague last evening. Vltava cruises are limited by locks on the river, but the central area provides a lovely one-hour cruise through the central city. We enjoyed sunset views of the Charles Bridge and Prague Castle. The students mostly took pictures of each other.

Because the picture loading piece of blog central seems to be working again, I'll try to add some more pictures from the embassy party on that entry.

The heat wave seems to have affected the power supply; we've been warned of possible cuts in air conditioning (noooooooooooo!) but so far we've been okay. Based on limited Internet research, Sue suspects that there may be a transmission capacity problem, maybe in the Czech Republic, maybe somewhere else in Central Europe. Sue claims that she is not a power grid jinx (some of you may remember that we were in Italy a few years ago when a transmission problem in France cut power to all of Italy).