Prague Charles Bridge Sunset Countdown Timer

Prague at sunset is a city that has decided to be gold, and it does not matter how many times you have seen the photographs, it still looks like a set built for a film that was never made. This is from up by the castle, looking down the Vltava, and you can count the bridges going away from you like beads on a string, the Charles Bridge with its statues and its crowds, then the next one, then the next, all of them stepping into the haze. The sun was a white coin sitting just above the hills, and the water had absorbed it and turned the colour of weak honey. There are two green copper domes in the foreground, one of them flying a flag too small to read from here. I had climbed a hill in the wrong shoes to get this, and there was a man selling hot wine at the top who was doing excellent business. I bought one. It was terrible. I drank all of it, because my hands were cold and the light was not going to wait. I still think about that wine.