Mucho Mucha.
We booked our annual “let’s get as many miles on our frequent flier accounts as we can while work is slow” tour a few days ago. Since we were in Budapest this past March - such a beautiful city! - I’ve only wanted to see more of the places in Eastern Europe that were off-limits to Westerners until just 20 or so years ago.
With that in mind, we started checking out the airfares and hotel rates for a few different cities and discovered, much to our delight, that Prague is pretty inexpensive. Well, inexpensive compared to other Eastern European destinations during the height of the tourist season, which happens to be exactly when we are planning this little trek.
When I ran across the page for the Alphonse Mucha museum, well, that settled it: We’re headed to Prague.
I adore Mucha; his work is the embodiment of art nouveau. It was a brief period, just a decade or so, rich with both the classical, curling, flowery lines of the Victorian age and the newer, streamlined ideas which gave birth to art deco - not surprisingly another of my favorite periods in art and design.
Like most other art lovers, I’ve had to love from afar, in books and even in some of my clothing. The prospect of seeing his work up-close-and-personal … to say I’m excited seems a bit understated. Ecstatic is a much better way to put it.
Yesterday, I posted the link to the Mucha museum to my Facebook profile. I wanted people to know about it, yes, but it was also a nod to those on my friend list who know we travel a lot. That is, when I post a link for an overseas destination, chances are we’re going there.
So imagine my surprise when I got on the computer just a little while ago to find Mucha is the Google Doodle of the day.
Good to know we chose wisely.
Coincidental link is coincidental.