Linna, as someone who is working on knocking stuff off her bucket list, I am here to say that you won't be getting any criticism about taking this too seriously from me.
Hashi Lebwohl wrote:aliantha wrote:In 2010, aliantha, for her bucket list, wrote:
* Visit the Czech Republic. I've got my eye on a walking tour of the hiking trail that runs from Vienna to Prague. No, I wouldn't have to walk the whole way!
I've knocked off two of the three; the only thing left is Ireland.
Really? Where did you go? My time there was spent centered in Brno but we took lots of train rides to other cities like Telc, Jihlava, and Olomouc, but only one weekend trip to Prague. I was originally surprised by the countryside--it looks a lot like the Hill Country in Texas--but then it made perfect sense when I realized that the Czechs who settled here moved to a place which reminded them of home. I can still read some Czech but my verbal fluency was never that good--I didn't get enough practice at it.
That was towards the end of my relationship with the mezzo soprano so the trip was great but the company could have been better. *shrug*
We were on a tour, so we just spent a couple of days in Prague. Then we got on a big bus and drove through that Hill Country you're talking about to the Danube, where got on the river cruise. I was able to make out signage in Prague (and also in Slovakia and some of the other countries we went to -- interesting how "large" is some variation of
velky in just about every Slavic language
) but I've definitely got an Americanized accent.
I suspect if I lived there for a while, I'd get better at the language. And although it's not officially on my bucket list, I wouldn't mind going back to see more of the Czech Republic. Also wouldn't mind going back to Bratislava, which I thought was charming.
