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Prague Castle lit up at night is one of those sights that makes you forget you are tired, and I was very tired, because I had walked up the hill twice looking for the right vantage point and then walked back down again when it turned out the right vantage point was at the bottom. From here the castle sits along the ridge like a lit ship, the long yellow facade of the palace, the green-lit bulk of St Vitus Cathedral behind it with its spires cut out against the dark, and the baroque church on the left glowing gold. Down below, the Vltava runs black and gold, with the lights of the embankment stretched into long stripes by the water. The Charles Bridge is on the right, its arches just catching the light. I had a flask of tea in my coat pocket and I drank it here, leaning on a cold stone wall, and watched the beams swing slowly across the cathedral. A tour group went past behind me, all of them looking at their phones. I did not photograph them. I did not have to.