I love this city. Last night Helena and I went to see a movie, 50č apiece so tickets for both of us plus snack and drink was still less than cinema price. It was outdoor cinema, and the film was a piece of crap called “Divergent” but they might as well have just called it “Everybody Loved Hunger Games So We Just Decided to Copy That.” Didn’t matter. It had some good action scenes, and watching outdoors was fun.
I believe this is the stretch between Vysočany and Hloubětín
This evening we went for a bike ride, in the direction of Vysočanska and then we kept going, getting a lot farther than we ever did when the kids were with us (They’re with the grandparents, up at the cottage. We’re going up there tomorrow.) It was a warm evening, light until about 9:30. We saw joggers, walkers, roller bladers, a bunch of people sitting in front of a pub where they had a plastic kiddie pool set up and the adults were getting in and splashing each other, some people exercising in the park, some people splashing with their dogs in the stream which was a bit off, because it looks like a bit of a sewer to me and I think the whole atmosphere could be improved dramatically by cleaning it up a bit, then we were past the park at Vysočanska and into territory I’d never explored before. There were just a couple brief sections where it looked urban, but 90% of the time was through park space and it was lovely.
On the way back, we stopped at an outdoor cafe next to a fitness center, it was at a high point of the path and had a really great view. As I said to H, in view of the fact that I’d never been in that neighborhood before, it was just like being tourists at an outdoor cafe in a strange city.
I’ve lived here 16 years and still find new stuff all the time. I love this town.
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