I like it, jetsetting from one location to the other... well or carsetting as the case may be. After sunny Prague and a grey rainy week in Birmingham I am now off to Zeithain again, to do my annual workcamp.
This time I go by car, that should be much more comfortable, I can listen to music, sleep at car parks if need be without the fear of being drenched by rain or have the bags stolen from my motorbike and oh boy, you should see the amount of stuff I am able to bring. Not like before with the motorbike where I had to decide between another pair of sock or perhaps better another t-shirt? No, just throw it all in, the car is big enough ![]()
I am looking forward to my main holiday, though Prague was brilliant.
Just after arriving in Prague, I was a bit worried at the beginning if I would still find my way around or of I should have brought the map along, but soon my feet did all the navigation and it was as if I had just left yesterday, not 9 years ago. Of course, Prague has changed, which city wouldn't after such a long time, but naturally, all the important buildings are still there, and the view over the Vltava to the castle on a sunny day is still stunning (especially when one has just arrived from Birmingham).
But walking around with my friends Tim and Katia, visiting some of the ould haunts, I realised that Prague is more that just a beautiful city - it is the place where I lived and had quite a lot of friends, the vast majority now being elsewhere. So walking around at 10 o'clock with all the other tourists in the morning was a unique experience - after all I hardly did that all those years ago, because either I was working by then teaching or, if being a weekend, I would still be sleeping.
So my stay, though short as it was, was just long enough to remember the good times but not that long to get all melancholy.
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