Gratuitous panorama, Prague
Magda is skiing. It took some doing to get her out the door. It’s not so much that she doesn’t trust me to change, feed, water, trim the hoofs of, etc. the boy. Instead I think that she worries she’ll come home to find him happily playing in my steaming eviscerated torso, entrails strewn all around the place. And who wants to clean that up after a day on the slopes? So anyway, for the second Sunday in a row she’s tearing down a mountain while Adam and I spend some boys-only time together. He’s down for his nap now, and I am taking advantage of the break in the relentless mammamuhmomamama?-ing to do some computer-related crap. An ongoing project here at isoglossia is to get our photo files in some sort of order. I’ve installed an external hard disc for backing up our massive media folders and have done some sorting. This inevitably leads to some strolls down memory lane.
During my first long weekend in Slovenia, a colleague and I decided to drive over the Alps to visit Prague. I know it is a pretentious cliché to like Prague, or possibly even mention it. My colleague disappeared almost immediately with some sketchy guy and I spent the entire time on my feet, which were inauspiciously housed in Australian torture-boots. By the end of the weekend my feet were raw bloody stumps, but I saw all corners of the city at all hours of the day and night. That was four years ago this weekend.
A good city for endless walking. Wear comfortable shoes.
I can also recommend the eponymous novel which has the added Euro-snobbery-deflecting attraction that none of it is set in Prague.
For the record, it bugs the hell out of me when I hear people describe Ljubljana as “a miniature Prague” etc.
Conversation in the car, which at the time had no source of music whatsoever, was generally poor. To this day I remember certain highlights:
As the high, snow-covered peaks of the Julian Alps appear in the windshield:
“So, are these ‘mountains’?”
I’ll say it again: don’t undertake long car trips with people who can’t drive a standard and never ever shut up.
You can also see the above picture in all of its bandwidth-clogging, 4455-pixel-wide scrollable massive glory, complete with upclose looks at the stitching imperfections. Meh.
Flickr’s Panorama Group’s output may well blow your mind.
Previous gratuitous panoramae:
- Ljubljana, Prešernov trg
- The harbor at Piran
- Piazza Unitá d’Italia, Trieste
- Bohinjsko jezero
- Reka Soča
- The waterfall Slap Savica
- Venice, Piazza San Marco
(in the header photo archive, which is crawling with them)
