Whereas in Vienna we couldn’t find a single guided tour of the city and had had to satisfy ourselves with getting lost of our own accord, in Prague the opposite was true.

We sifted through piles and piles of brochures trying to weigh up the comparative merits of the Ultimate Walking tour, the All in One tour, the Prague Insider, the Intro to Prague, the Grand Walk and the Grand Walk Deluxe.

Not to mention dozens of specialty tours like the Ghost Trail, Pubs of the Old Town, the Good Morning Walk (no, thank you) and the Micros-Scooter tour (’What a great way to see the city - we have scooters with tyres and brakes!’ You’d hope so, wouldn’t you.)

Tonight we opted for the Ghost Trail walk. First stop was the fourteenth century church that still has a human arm hanging above the doorway - the remnants of a thief who tried to steal the statue of the Virgin Mary because she reputedly has priceless jewels and gold stashed inside of her. But when he reached out to snatch away the statue she wrenched off his arm and hung it above the doorway as a warning to other such hooligans.

There were many such stories on our ghost trail walk this evening, but as our guide was more mouse-like than frightening we found ourselves walking along grumbling about being ripped off. Just as we were saying ‘If I was running this tour I’d have spooky noises and ghosts jumping out from the shadows..,’ out from the shadows jumped a ghost. Well, an actor really, wearing a bloody white t-shirt and brandishing a butcher’s knife. Same effect, though.