It was a weekend in Prague with Mama this week. She came to London for work and play. We’d work all day and walk, chat, eat all night. It reminded me a lot of our Paris days many summers ago.
Praha had the potential to be a bit of a disaster. Mostly because of me and my absentmindedness. On Friday I took us to the wrong airport! There are four of them in London, all going to the same destinations! Yeesh. We went to Gatwick instead of Heathrow. I couldn’t even believe it. Mum looked like she was ready to kill me and I could not believe I could have been SO stupid! I ended up buying is new flights that left early the next morning. When Mom decided that she was talking to me again, it turned out to be an OK evening.
Saturday morning we were off bright and early. Praha is gorgeous. I can describe it as a child’s birthday cake on steroids. It’s colourful, whimsical, like it came right out of a fairytale. We took a day tour so that we could cover everything in the little time that we had. It is such a fun city to photograph, especially from the clock tower. =)
Another city down in the list of millions of places to see in this great big world!
Thanks Mama! For the company, the patience and the girly time away. I’ve missed it.
This weekend I visited my Greek lovelies in Dublin. We roadtripped it to the Western coast of Ireland to see the Cliffs of Moher. Ireland is green. Very green. And I am glad it is because there has to be some sort of reward for all the rain that it gets. I don’t think I could live there for too long. I’d been to Dublin many times before for work and I can describe it as cute – beautiful cobblestone streets and miles and miles of pubs pubs pubs. I have never seen people drink so much in my life! EVERYONE drinks and everyone gets drunk. By 10pm at night there is puke on the sidewalks and someone is peeing against a wall.
Anyway, this weekend we decided to get out of Dublin to see the countryside. It was lovely. I rode with Nick and Maria while the others were in a big van. There were 10 of us, all antsy from the forever long winter. We saw snow, green grass, turquoise water and lots of rock. The terrain in Ireland is so so different from anything that I’d seen before. It’s eerie, dramatic and a little lonely. So beautiful but mostly under gray.
It was a COLD weekend. The best times we had were spent in cozy pubs and bars eating big meals over hot tea and chocolate. =) There was something so endearing and cozy about finding shelter in random little pubs in the Irish countryside.
It was a great weekend with the Greek lovelies. I love them.
