Giving Peace a Chance - Lennon Wall by Ekaterinburg
Fans of John Lennon really can't leave Prague without seeing this wall. It's in Mala Strana, just off Na kampe square in fact, so you'll have no problem in finding it. You cross over a really tiny bridge on Hroznova, that takes you off Kampa Island and on to Velkoprevorske namesti, a square which is dominated by Burquoy Palace. Across the road, and in the summer, almost hidden behind the huge leafy trees, is the John Lennon Wall. It's so ordinary, that it's almost an anticlimax and somehow you think that there has to be more than this scruffy graffiti-d wall. It's been here since Lennon's death and apparently the secret police spent hours painting over the messages of love and peace until 1989 when the wall was returned to the Knights of Malta. The Knights weren't very keen on the idea either but eventually with some persuasion they agreed to let it remain as a monument to John Lennon and peace. His face appears in relief and the entire wall is a glorious riot of pyschedelic love and peace. If you're still hanging on to a little 60's nostalgia, this could make you a little teary-eyed. 'All we are saying, is Give Peace a Chance'. Those were the days !!
