Christmas break 2023 By the end of September I asked my friend Jan to take me some place nice, some place I can get closure, some place I can leave all my demons behind. Jan suggested going hiking in Slovakia, I didn't think it twice. I booked my plane tickets to Czechia, requested days off at work, got some mountaineering equipment, and got ready for a life-changing adventure. The Prague astronomical clock is a medieval astronomical clock attached to the Old Town Hall in Praha. It was first installed in 1410, making it the third-oldest astronomical clock in the world and the oldest clock still in operation. On August 2023, I took my parents to Paris, and despite the city itself is objectively gorgeous, I found it disgusting in many ways. Praha has a similar style, but it feels completely different. It feels sober, clean, impressive, enlightened, old but modern, housing the cultural centre of central Europe for many years throughout its history. Walking the streets of Praha during ...
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