1) Czech children are adorable. They also have a tendency to wear matching reflector vests on field trips, only adding to the adorable.
2) Shirtless middle-aged men practicing SWORDFIGHTING in the parks around Petrin Hill...
3) $1 beer.
4) GOOD $1 beer. Pilsner is a way of life.
5) Smazany Syr. Fried cheese, covered in mayonnaise wrapped in a bun. My arteries are crying.
6) Reliable public transportation.
7) Chapeau Rouge.
8) The Language. It might be freakin' impossible at first, but once you can get by on your own, you feel like a GOD.
9) The view. I had my doubts in the depressing depths of dreary winter snowstorms and freezing rain, but this city is absolutely gorgeous once the sun remembers we exist. I've grown rather fond of my fairytale skyline.
10) Bizarre 1970's TV renditions of classic Eastern European folk tales. Someone turns into a bear, then there's a witch with a wooden pig sleigh that leads the bear man to a peasant girl who was turned into ice, and then the devil comes up from hell to punish another devil who got drunk and joined the army, where he meets a local farm boy who fell in love with the gorgeous bitchy sister of the icicle girl, who magically thaws with the kiss of an honorable Slavic warrior... blah blah.. and everyone looks tres Russian and has a kindly grandmother who ends up saving the day with maternal wisdom and national spirit! Somehow underneath all this is a bunch of communist propaganda.. meanwhile, I'm still trying to figure out how the hell the girl turned into an ice cube...
XO,
KATKO
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