Around Me

I've spent so much time in Mala Strana and Kampa recently...it's absolutely my favorite area of the city. I'm having a little trouble articulating how much I love Prague, which is why I sometimes talk about everything else on this blog. I'm starting to get sentimental though since I don't have much time left.

The weather's been phenomenal. In the upper 70s at least every day and night. No jacket necessary. Every afternoon around 4:30 the breeze picks up, the sky gets dark and it rains for a while. It feels quasi-tropical, oddly like Florida. I was even caught in a hailstorm on Sunday and the air on the pub deck I took refuge on was still warm. Last Saturday night, while I was waiting for a midnight cabaret, I was walking to meet Lucie, very slowly across Most Legii because of how the air felt. It was raining lightly and I stopped in the middle of the bridge to listen to the thunder. Sheet lightning above the castle competed with fireworks in the distance. A lot of people were alone and doing the same.

Before I'd turned down that road I had finally walked up to the creepy memorial to communist victims on Ujezd, and took this picture of it from behind:



A marker explains: "The memorial to the victims of communism is dedicated to all victims, not only those who were jailed or executed but also those whose lives were ruined by totalitarian despotism."

And here's something creepy I snapped above the door of A Studio Rubin:



Here are some of the many rosebushes (in red, white, orange, and pink) that have exploded in front of the flat:



And here are my spring shoes, the only nice thing I've bought myself in Prague, which are already getting ruined by the otherwise delightful weather: