All packed up and ready to go
Sitting on pillows, laptop on a cardboard box. Yesterday the storage people took away our air cargo...655kg. The apartment is virtually empty, being stripped of all furniture as of midday today. M has just gone for take away at the local Chinese.
N's last day of school was tearless for her; only Claire succumbing to tears during the leavers assembly. I too had to keep tears back as my mate Christine gave me a thank you gift and signed T-shirt at assembly too.
Christine and I went dancing on Friday night, to a performance by Brutus at a packed out pub near Narodni trida. After telling a few Czech guys we were gay to keep them away, we were later invited, by some 20 year boys, to a gay club afterwards....we only left there after dancing, during fits of laughter, to the Czech version of YMCA.
Thursday night I said goodbye to all my Czech friends (from TEFL days) at the Konvict pub. Then afterwards went to the expat.cz Christmas party (karaoke dance party) near Charles Bridge,where I said goodbye to a lot of my Housewives club friends.
N's last day of school was tearless for her; only Claire succumbing to tears during the leavers assembly. I too had to keep tears back as my mate Christine gave me a thank you gift and signed T-shirt at assembly too.
Christine and I went dancing on Friday night, to a performance by Brutus at a packed out pub near Narodni trida. After telling a few Czech guys we were gay to keep them away, we were later invited, by some 20 year boys, to a gay club afterwards....we only left there after dancing, during fits of laughter, to the Czech version of YMCA.
Thursday night I said goodbye to all my Czech friends (from TEFL days) at the Konvict pub. Then afterwards went to the expat.cz Christmas party (karaoke dance party) near Charles Bridge,where I said goodbye to a lot of my Housewives club friends.
posted by Portmans at 6:09 pm
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You had very interesting trip
about Prague. I had it too. Want to share with you:
If I remember right, this may be the day that we made a run via tram 18 to Narodni trida to do some shopping at Tesco. This is a large store by downtown Prague standards, with several floors for shopping, in contrast to many Prague stores that are the size of an apartment. However, there is a particular peculiarity; it appears that a shopper has to pay for his or her purchases prior to proceeding to another floor. After selecting various supplies such as bath beads and such on the ground floor, we lined up at one of the many registers to pay. Our cashier said something in Czech when we gave him a large Czech bill, but he was getting ready to go off-shift and realized I was a foreigner (Čzinec), shrugged his shoulders, and gave us change. On the next floor up, we found women’s clothing, but Carol Anne was unsuccessful in her urgent quest to find cushioned non-cotton socks.
After a quick return to the hotel, it was time to prepare for dinner with families and friends of bride and groom in a New Town pub. We met Marianna's father (Křen) and stepmother and family including brother Miki and Miki's girlfriend/fiancé Lucy and Marianna's half-brother and sister, Jakob (James) and Tereza; plus maid of honor Misha; also attending were Marianna's step-mom, Ron & Corinne Christman, Ellen & Paul Tallerico, Jerry Seeger & Philee & Marianna of course!, Phil & Barbara Seeger, along with Carol Anne, Gerald, and me and a couple of others. Pub was Ztraty y nalezy; my original best attempt at translating the name in a dictionary (slovnick) came out as "worthless discovery" but it really means "lost and found". We later learned that it’s right across from a home lived in by Dvořak. (New Town is only 600 some years old, some 100 years newer than old town, so it’s regarded as the young upstart neighborhood.)
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