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jamjar ([personal profile] jamjar) wrote2007-06-07 11:14 am

Drive-by posting

1) Prague is the most beautiful city I've been to. You know how you go to a city and you have to see a particular historical building, this example of baroque architecture, that old street? Like that, but for pretty much the whole city.

Pics taken are here, taken with my shiny new camera.

2) I'm Jam on Good Reads, which looks like a very shiny site indeed. So many books to add to my list!

3) Saw Guster at the Water Rats with [livejournal.com profile] megolas and the drummer is just something else. Like watching Bruce Lee, but on drums. Seriously, you could not see his hands -and judging by the sounds, he had at least eight of them- as anything other than a blur. Pictures to follow when I've gone through and seen if there are any even remotely clear. Nice show, decent audience except for the girl that kept screaming in my ear. You're less than two metres from the band! You don't need to scream loud enough to actually hurt the people around you!

ETA: Fixed the link to Good Reads. Thanks [livejournal.com profile] failing_angel!

[identity profile] failing-angel.livejournal.com 2007-06-07 10:46 am (UTC)(link)
Prague - went there in 96, lovely place, I want to go back, but there are so many other cities to see as well.

[identity profile] failing-angel.livejournal.com 2007-06-07 10:49 am (UTC)(link)
BTW - your 'good reads' link doesn't work.

[identity profile] jamjar.livejournal.com 2007-06-07 11:18 am (UTC)(link)
It'd probably help if I actually put the url in the link, right?

Fixed!

[identity profile] failing-angel.livejournal.com 2007-06-08 10:49 am (UTC)(link)
Heh, number of times I did that...
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[identity profile] bravecows.livejournal.com 2007-06-07 12:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Ohhh, Prague! I want to go to Prague. I plan to duck out of the way of imaginary Johans lurking behind every street corner. Was the food good?

[identity profile] jamjar.livejournal.com 2007-06-07 12:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Not so much. Prague food tends towards starchy stodge, dumplings like loaves of bread. Honestly, I'll take German or English style stodge over Czech. The best places to eat are cafés and pizza places and even the odd ex-pat breakfast place.

The honey and walnut cake thing is nice, though, and there are some very nice little cafés and pizza places, just avoid the ones selling traditional food.
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[identity profile] bravecows.livejournal.com 2007-06-07 12:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Right. *nods* It is important to know these things.

I once had a marvellous revelation relating to potatoes on a miserable grey rainy day. I was cold and wet and empty and suddenly potatoes made sense! Um, the enlightenment didn't last, though. Sad.

[identity profile] jamjar.livejournal.com 2007-06-07 01:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Potato pancakes! Food of the gods!