beeback is back!

Well, the intervals between posts seem to be getting exponentially longer. Not much I can do about it. There seem to be other laws at force here.
One of them being 'Murphey's Law'! You know: 'If things can get worse, they will, in the worst possible way and at the worst possible moment.'
Here is the basic list of things that went wrong two months ago:
-After 3.5 years in Prague Sue couldn't stand Czech culture and left for greener pastures (New Zealand)
-I move into new flat and have to deal with albanian psychocriminal 'landlord' who keeps changing conditions and is after my money. (Ultimately I managed to get rid of him but boy was that stressful... I moved out after only a month, losing 3000kc but I don't care. The new place is perferct - more later)
-my bank messes things up and I loose access to my money for two weeks.
-my insurance is terminated.
-I collide with someone during (of all things!) a game of frisbe. Her head goes into my rib which hurts so bad for a month that I can't run or turn over in bed. I go to the doctor (which costs a fortune without insurance!) who tells me that I'll be alright in six weeks. Great. Thanks Doc.
-my laptop burns out. Literally - black smoke out back from fan.
-mysterious, itchy bug bites all over body. Thought it might be bed bugs but they went away after a week and never returned.
-etc...

As I said, now I live in a wonderful flat in Letna, in the north of Prague. I'm right between my two favorite parks (pictures soon) and the atmosphere is marvelous, especially now during this hot summer. My flatmates are great, Anna from Poland, Rudolf from Czech Republic and Amal from India. The only thing I could complain about right now is that practically everything on our street is being renovated or repaired. The drilling starts at seven on the dot and continues into the evening. I'm trying to record some new songs but spend most of the time waiting for that lull in the drilling.

And just because I say so, here are some new pictures:



This is a fountain by a famous Czech artist which has, as you can see, two men peeing on the Czech Republic. They even move from side to side and aim up and down as they pee! Great!


Devine intervention? I didn't see the ladder wobble but I guess it must have because this angle just flew down to hold it still.


One of my favorite buildings in Prague: the everlasting cycle of destruction and repair, destruction and repair...


This is a scene from Letna park. The stones at the bottom are part of a mausoleum for some dead communist. His body ended up somewhere else. They build a statue of him but it was ripped down eventually. In its place they built a giant metronom which I guess is supposed to symbolise the passage of time but everybody hates it (the metronome). Now the area is popular among skateboarders. And I guess it is their shoes that you see but I'm not sure why they are hanging from the cable. Kids...
I just love the stensil of the boy blowing bubbles, though.

All for now.

c

new year, new flat

happy new year!

so, on the penultimate day of last year sue and i moved out off our old flat and into the current one. we used to live a bit outside the city but now we live right in the middle. it's a totally different experience; you can walk everywhere! any direction you choose there is a beatiful church, a museum, a square, a tram, a metro, a super market or some vietnamese guy selling the best spring rolls in the world! here are some of the views from our bedroom:




and here is me looking romantic.



this is the church at namesti miru (square of peace)



we found these while out exploring our neighbourhood:


and would you believe it, after all those fatefull encounters with coins comes this:


there were four jars filled with coins in the apartment when we moved in! apparently the people before us didn't like to look through the coins while out shopping and instead just collected them. and left them!? i just don't understand... of course i had to go out and count them. it came to a total of 400 crowns. i was worried i might never find a coin again. but i've found three since then.

and may i introduce to you: norris bennet, william bennets's brother (my best friend from my days in australia). norris moved to prague last year. talk about coincidence! here we are on our way to see the film 'australia' (surprise surprise)


and william decided to drop by too, bringing his sister elly and his fiance bex with him. it had been 9 years since we last saw each other in south east asia. it was great meating up again but much too short!

here they are doing the 'confused' pose. or was it supposed to be 'sexy'?


that's it for this entry on my blog. hope to post soon.

hope all of you are well! take care,

c