come on CZ, bloody catch up!
catch up ya bitch! call that a telly!
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come on CZ, bloody catch up!
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catch up ya bitch! call that a telly!
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In 1997 I went to CZ twice. And at great expense! I was working in Korea and for a year after leaving Prague I thought of it every day, I missed it so much. Korea just wasn't as much fun and didn't live up to it. Finally in January this year on a six week holiday back home from Korea I went to Prague for a week or ten days and had one of the greatest holidays ever. I remembered my Czech, had great fun with the remaining friends there, met Dan Freeland, Andrew Parker, Karolina Weberova, Toby Morgan, went to U Spivacku, Zizkov pubs, Praha 1, 2 & 3 pubs, went to Sidliste pubs, it was snowing, I took photos, stayed in Zizkov, got taxis, trams and metros everywhere, listened to my discman walking in the snow to all these appointments and meetings, listening to Underword and John Martyn. I met my ex-student Jana Maskova, who gave me a giant bar of chocolate as a hello present, before we went and had a few drinks in Vinohrady. It was a really nice holiday, and just what the doctor ordered after a heady first fifteen months in Seoul.
Then I went again in the summer, which I was just as excited about beforehand but was less good a holiday. I was expecting greatness and instead it was a bit ordinary. Plus I lost my Ray-Ban sunglasses. But Rob Faulds was there this time so that was okay. I started to notice the differences between this state of Prague and the one I left, only two years before. Namely how seemingly every youth was now hooked on drugs where before they weren't that way at all. What happened there?! The last night I walked around the Old Town and it was like a scene from some designer pesimism future movie where scores of youths hang around the streets with needles in their pockets and the rest of it, and I thought bloody hell! How did this happen? I walk away for five minutes and look what they all get up to!
Still a great place though as always 'cause there's too much of the good stuff going for it. If you are going, and you know me, let me know and I might come with you. I'd really like to cycle or train travel around CZ in nice weather. Unless you don't want me to come with you, in which case just quietly slip away like.
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