Date: 31/07/2024 Location: Prague, Czech
By noon, I was horizontal in a hotel room, watching sunlight pool on the floor like spilled Prosecco, learning about the Astronomical Clock from a vlog. It’s beautiful, the narrator insisted, but mostly it’s a tourist trap that’s been repaired for 600 years. I loved it immediately.
Outside, trams and cars shared the same rails — an elegant chaos, though the traffic wasn’t chaotic at all.
In the cathedral, the sun hit the Holy Roman Empire’s crest at exactly the right angle — God’s own spotlight — and for a second, I almost believed in something.
Date: 01/08/2024 Location: Prague, Czech
The forecast promised rain, but Prague shrugged. Instead, we got gold.
On Charles Bridge, a statue of three saints: two locked in a gaze, the third staring blankly into the distance. Typical, I thought. There’s always one who doesn’t get the memo.
That night, the moon hung over the Vltava like a cheap pendant.
