here there but mostly everywhere

our other side trip was prague, or as everybody else in the continent of europe would call it, praha. do you know why we choose to change the name of cities? i mean they are already foreign words, right? let us just stick with the original. if we brainstorm for a hot second as which cities we (the english language) have altered we can come up with: munich/münchen | rome/roma | florence/firenze....the list goes on. i guess if you go there you get to choose what you want to call the place. i like that idea.

okay i did some research and it seems a few logical reasons for why the text has changed in city names but i still like the idea of each person getting to choose, which is pretty much what happened anyways, as it 'fit' into the english language more fluidly.

sad to say: praha was swarming beyond bees with tourists. i'm not saying i wasn't amongst them snapping pictures, gabbing non-local language, standing in the middle of the roadway while head buried in  map (just to name a few stand-outs) but the tourist traffic really did a number on the genuineness of the city. i'm sure it is there, just buried. i'm sure praha is lovely. i'm sure it is quaint and has nimble little alleyways to discover. looks like i need a time traveling machine to explore the city in the ways i would like. any folks out there have one? i would like to land in 1885. one hundred years before i was born. don't worry, i'll come back.

so this tourism scene. it is here to stay. it has changed cities like praha and many others. cities have created whole marketing strategies around how they can collect and wrangle as many of these globe-totters as they can. i do not blame the city, it is just not for my most ideal travel ways. however, living is a whole different discussion and might call for a pot of green tea. i'm talking about visiting, the 48-96 hour type, as we were.

i'm not sure who out there has qualms with instagram, but i instagrammed the crap out of one of our days in prague. i had an iphone in my hands and was like a kid who wouldn't let go of their teddy bear. it was fun. now that is over and my point and shoot, currently dying a slow death, will suffice and boy it will.

: instagrammation :

in retrospect: too much blur effect. i'm an amateur.