London is awaiting me tomorrow, along with the Faerie Godmother Trainee. But the sun decided to come out today (I knew it - the one weekend I won't be here in Prague and it decides to heat up and be sunny - typical) and it's amazing what a difference a bit of sunshine makes. I went on a little walk to get a few last things to bring with me to bestow on friends in London, but I didn't have time to enjoy much of it. So I took some photos instead, to be able to look at them and marvel at the lovely weather later.
While I was out, I stupidly decided to try a bit of light-hearted banter with the woman in Tesco, but she was probably too young to indulge in such things and my comment that, ,,konečně je to léto, že jo?" ["it's finally summer, isn't it?!"] was received with a teenager-like look of simultaneous incomprehension and disdain. Maybe I was being overly friendly and thus impolite with such an informal phrase as ,,...že jo?" or maybe she was just miserable because people kept telling her what a lovely day it was outside and she was stuck working in an air-conditioned, no natural light to speak of, branch of Tesco. In which case, ,,takže, chapu." ["I understand then."] Or maybe my Czech is worse than I thought. Occam's razor would decree it has to be the latter.
Anyway, I thought I could bypass any further need to attempt to write something interesting, seeing as I'm pushed for time and really should be packing my case instead, with some of the photos I took . There's one extra one from the other day when I realised they'd vamped-up Václavské náměstí with flower beds down the middle, just in time for tourist high-season. Ah, the vanity...
Looking up to náměstí Míru, the church in the background, this is the general theme of where I live, banks, banks and more banks. Oh, and a tram. Of course.
Then the view from the bank on the corner by the metro station, looking past yet another bank. You can just about see down to the shiny and copper-topped building in the background, which is part of the national museum at the very top of Václavské náměstí:
And here are the roses [um, sorry, you'll have to zoom in and look closely to see them!] in the middle of Václavské náměstí (or ,Václavák' as it's affectionately known to us 'locals'):
