Weekly Photo Challenge: Kiss

Karel Hynek Mácha at Petřín Gardens

For Weekly Photo Challenge: Kiss I chose one Czech tradition. I already wrote about it in My 2012 In Pictures, but as we say “Repetition is the mother of wisdom” :-):

“It’s first of May the day of love”, that’s the beginning of poem May by Karel Hynek Mácha, a Czech romantic writer. His statue stands in the big public park Petřín and every first of May couples are coming to kiss under blossoming tree here and greet Mácha. The English translation of the whole poem you can read at this link. Warning: it doesn’t have a happy ending!

Kiss

Tradition – kissing in front of Mácha, but when you are not close, kiss under any tree in bloom also serves well