Scrambled Brains

Hello friends and family.

I realise I have a lot to catch up on. I have been a bit less inclined to update than Kristian recently, and everything is a bit scrambled in my head. So I think I will work backwards, and probably not all in one go.

We're in Prague, and this is lovely but also a bit strange for me, because of my strong feelings for it and the fact that the city has changed a lot in the last five years, and is quite different in spring/summer as compared to winter (as I expected) and although I will always love the city's history and its culture which is known to me, I would this time around forgive other people for thinking the city brusque, messy and sleazy (not only in the sex way, but also the commercialism). There are some changes I'm a bit sad about, so it's bittersweet (but definitely sweet) to be back. The knowledge that it is tourists like me/us that have brought about these changes makes me sad as well.

Of course the city is just as beautiful as ever, and I still know it like the back of my hand. Last night after we arrived there was a lightning storm, so we turned off the lights and just enjoyed it. It felt like we were back in Marrickville/Sydney again sort of. I danced around to daggy Prague radio in the hallway. I do believe I heard Midnight Oil as well as a lot of late 90s sounding house music. ICQ uh-ohs mixed in, that kind of thing.

It was a hot day today, the weather's been strange in general, and I got my worst sunburn thus far today, even though I put sunscreen on. The only result of that was that now I have pretty patterns on my back, haha. There seems to be cool changes in the evenings to break the horribleness, but all day we saw people pouring water over each other and even having watergun fights

Cesky Krumlov was so gorgeous, we really enjoyed our time there and had some awesome vegetarian food, even at a place we expected to only serve meat. Our crazy bus to Prague only cost AU$10 (for a 3+ hour journey) so we will definitely be back, even to have that meal again!

Ljubljana is very cute as well. In one of my categorising moods (probably on the bus from work going through newtown), I divided sydney hipsters into the "cotton" variety and the "polyester" variety, and Ljubljana seems to be entirely composed of the cotton variety, you know, the kind of hip young person who rides bikes and reads books and is unafraid of colours other than red, white and black. Nice. Got to go. Love!