Posted by Declan on December 15, 2006, at 16:15:05
In reply to Re: Assaults to my self-esteem » Declan, posted by Meri-Tuuli on December 14, 2006, at 15:57:57
It was all history to me, kind of evil and beautiful at once. Still part of the Soviet Imperium (now there's a book for you, "Imperium" by Ryszard Kapuscinski) Soviet troops on the trains, everything so old (and in Australia nothing European can be older than 200 years), here is where Heydrich had his office. They lit the lamps by hand in Prague up to the 60s, maybe. Restaurants where you would wait for hours, not realising that they were unreal restaurants, the sense of secret police (perhaps) in the churches, and -15C in the open. No one spoke English. People would stop you to enquire about our baby's Mickey Mouse bottle. It was a different world.
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