This month was more eventful than it should have been. On November first, I flew home for a week because my father missed me so much, he decided to have an emergency operation to make me come back. It worked! He had me for a week to annoy him into recovery 🙂

I finally got to Prague and had the luck to go on a city tour with an historian, Marcus, all by myself. Since it was just the two of us, we wandered through the city and he talked talked about all the stuff we passed. The tour company is Naked Tour Guide. I am keeping track of all I learn on the city tours in a separate place – ask me sometime when you visit me somewhere in the world 🙂

PRAGUE

Church by apartment building. A few days later, a lovely Christmas market was set up in front of it. It was like living in Hamburg – the Czech are also as anal about not crossing the street on red …

View from apartment after a sunny day.

King Wenceslas by David ÄŒerny.
November 17 – Day of Struggle for Liberty and Democracy. Shrine for Jan Opletal.

 

 

You are expected to be able to look out for yourself.

PARIS

Good food and excellent fun with Annabelle. I may move to Paris after remote year. The energy of NYC, but with the goal to enjoy life (rather than materialism).

 

BUDAPEST

Balcony from airbnb. Belonged to a woman who we met in Sarajevo. She grew up in Munich, from Hungarian parents, who speaks 5 languages:-) Yes, one meets very interesting people. And her book collection was amazing!

 

Imre Nagy. Here a very interesting article from June 17, 1989 in the NYTimes, especially when read from the perspective of now. (For those not so history-oriented, the Wall fell in the Fall of 1989. Imre Nagy was the prime minister of Hungary during the 1956 revolution. He was executed in 1958. Victor Orban, the current Prime Minister of Hungary of a right wing party, is quoted in the article.)

PRAGUE again

Performance of the opera, Rusalka by Dvořák at the Karlín.

 

 

Most of the group in front of the Lennon Wall where one of our resident artists, Lauren, painted an amazing mural.