The last day of any holiday is always a curious mix of happiness and misery – happiness, because you’ve got one last day to enjoy and make the most of, but misery, because you know that in around twenty-four hours time, you’re going to be back in your bland, ordinary existence back home again and the holiday will be but a fading memory. No more was this more marked than yesterday in Prague, when a very nice (and stonkingly cheap) meal, followed by a number of very reasonably priced pints of Budvar capped off a great week of sightseeing, exploration and, uh, quite a few very reasonably priced pints of Budvar.

Anyway, you can’t stay on holiday forever, however much you might like to do so (the idea of permanently being on holiday raises the curious philosophical issue of maybe some day having to take a break from being on holiday, anyway), and so I find myself back in Manchester once again and, now the massive backlog of email (99.8% spam, 0.1% blog comments and 0.1% Amazon shipping confirmations) is out of the way, normal bloggage should resume. My plan for the upcoming week is to intersperse the normal tedium of links, memes and self-indulgent rambling with a couple of posts about Prague on a variety of themes (the exact details of which I hope will become clearer to me once I get under way) to encourage (or maybe dissuade, I don’t know) you to go and visit the place.

In the meantime, it’s worth mentioning that the Best Camera Shop In The World is in Prague (Vodièkova 37) and if you’re ever there and have even the tiniest interest in photography, it’s well worth a visit. They have what is possibly the greatest selection of second hand cameras I’ve ever seen – literally hundreds of old Soviet and East German devices, some of which must be nudging 80 years old. Naturally, I couldn’t help parting with a few Korun and I’m now the proud owner of an LCA. Pictures will therefore, inevitably, be forthcoming.

Right now, though, I think it’s probably teatime.

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