Tuesday 5th May

For the last few days the weather has been lovely, blue skies and in the 70s, like summer should be, today was overcast though,  however I decided to take a rare road trip outside Shawnee.   In the weekend's local paper there was a report about the Kolache Festival on Saturday in Prague, about 20 miles away - I wish I'd gone, but thought I'd visit the town this afternoon.

Prague is notable for three things.  Kolaches, which are sweet rolls with a fruit filling;  the National Shrine to the Infant Jesus and the birthplace of Jim Thorpe, the athlete.

Prague is very small, it took me all of 10 seconds - if that - to drive down its Main Street.  It just had one bakery which was closed, so sadly I didn't get to try the kolaches, but there is somewhere in Shawnee which sells them.    It had a little museum which is open Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, so I didn't get to that either.  So all in all I wasn't out very long.

I should have gone inside the church of St Wenceslas, I don't know why I didn't.  There is a lot more information inside.

Jim Thorpe was a Native American who competed in the 1912 Olympics.

For such a small place Prague has quite a few claims to fame.