Holy Moly it's May!
May. 2nd, 2019 07:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
geowench And the first leg of our Praha sojourn ends in less than three weeks. I am looking forward to going home for a few weeks. It's amazing how much you learn about what you love when you are away from it.
Anyway, since my last post, we spent a long weekend in mountains at a villa/chalet/lodge, whatever you want to call it in Pec pod Sněžkou. We had a nice time, although as my friend oldblack commented, the "friend/family" situation was a bit rough. It's quite pretty up there, and we took a funicular up to the top of the mountain where we were able to step foot into Poland. This was also very pretty, but I must say, I am super spoiled having spent chunks of my childhood in the Sierra Nevadas. All of this was reminescent of the mountains I already know and love but honestly, not as spectacular. But don't tell anyone. On the way home we stopped at the village of Kuks to be touristy and have a big meal with a bunch of Czechs.
The next weekend we stayed in Prague and went to the Agricultural Museum (interesting, but smaller than expected) and the Transportation Museum (which just a bunch of old cable cars), and then walked for awhile in Mala Strana along the Vlatava River, which was extremely pleasant.
Tuesday Eric stayed home from work so we could go look at some apartments to possibly rent in the fall, but it was put off, so instead we went to the Klemintinum, which OMG is the pretty much the most amazing thing in Prague. You must take a tour to see any of it, and you can only stand at one end of that spectacular library and peep in for a few seconds, but it is absolutely worth it. After the library bit, you climb and climb and climb up to the astronomy tower where you get a fabulous view of the city. Now quite sure how I managed to make it up and then back down (which is always hte more difficult part for me) those treacherous, spiraling, wooden staircases (you'd never take tourists up/down such a thing in the States) without killing myself, but yay me, I did it.
Then yesterday was a national holiday. We didn't want to brave the crowds for anything touristy, so we took a short walk at Rangherka, which is near our apartment. It is a former silk factory and has some small gardens to walk in. I had overdone it the previous day, so was not up for much more than a very short excursion. Today I will stay home and work, except for getting groceries.
This weekend we were going to go out of town, but not sure that will happen now as our apartment viewing is now rescheudled (for the third time) for Friday morning. If she puts us off again, I will give up on this agency.
I am still having bouts of overwhelming anxiety but doing my best to breathe through them and hang in there. I feel like I am wasting my time here because I can't go out every day and walk for 10 kilometers exploring, but documenting here what we have done is actually the best remedy for that feeling.
In the coming days I must find us a place to live, which is also making me anxious. June/July are the height of hte season and I probably waited too long, argh.
Anyway, since my last post, we spent a long weekend in mountains at a villa/chalet/lodge, whatever you want to call it in Pec pod Sněžkou. We had a nice time, although as my friend oldblack commented, the "friend/family" situation was a bit rough. It's quite pretty up there, and we took a funicular up to the top of the mountain where we were able to step foot into Poland. This was also very pretty, but I must say, I am super spoiled having spent chunks of my childhood in the Sierra Nevadas. All of this was reminescent of the mountains I already know and love but honestly, not as spectacular. But don't tell anyone. On the way home we stopped at the village of Kuks to be touristy and have a big meal with a bunch of Czechs.
The next weekend we stayed in Prague and went to the Agricultural Museum (interesting, but smaller than expected) and the Transportation Museum (which just a bunch of old cable cars), and then walked for awhile in Mala Strana along the Vlatava River, which was extremely pleasant.
Tuesday Eric stayed home from work so we could go look at some apartments to possibly rent in the fall, but it was put off, so instead we went to the Klemintinum, which OMG is the pretty much the most amazing thing in Prague. You must take a tour to see any of it, and you can only stand at one end of that spectacular library and peep in for a few seconds, but it is absolutely worth it. After the library bit, you climb and climb and climb up to the astronomy tower where you get a fabulous view of the city. Now quite sure how I managed to make it up and then back down (which is always hte more difficult part for me) those treacherous, spiraling, wooden staircases (you'd never take tourists up/down such a thing in the States) without killing myself, but yay me, I did it.
Then yesterday was a national holiday. We didn't want to brave the crowds for anything touristy, so we took a short walk at Rangherka, which is near our apartment. It is a former silk factory and has some small gardens to walk in. I had overdone it the previous day, so was not up for much more than a very short excursion. Today I will stay home and work, except for getting groceries.
This weekend we were going to go out of town, but not sure that will happen now as our apartment viewing is now rescheudled (for the third time) for Friday morning. If she puts us off again, I will give up on this agency.
I am still having bouts of overwhelming anxiety but doing my best to breathe through them and hang in there. I feel like I am wasting my time here because I can't go out every day and walk for 10 kilometers exploring, but documenting here what we have done is actually the best remedy for that feeling.
In the coming days I must find us a place to live, which is also making me anxious. June/July are the height of hte season and I probably waited too long, argh.
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Date: 2019-05-02 07:37 pm (UTC)I think we went to the agricultural museum last time we were there by mistake - we had meant to go to the technical museum... but it was interesting, anyway.
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Date: 2019-05-03 10:59 am (UTC)The Ag museum is next door to the Tech, so easy mistake to make. The Technical is really pretty amazing, gorgeous astronomical instruments, a wonderful clock exhibit, interesting mining exhibit, and more. Also, the downtown National museum has a very interesting Bohemian Celtic exhibit which is small enough to be easily enjoyed but large enough to be interesting.
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Date: 2019-05-03 12:18 am (UTC)"treacherous, spiraling, wooden staircases" sound fantastic - just the sort of thing you want to experience - and survive to tell the tale.
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