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While you’ve been touring a bit an excessive amount of, non-travel months are SO NICE. And that led to a really, very good month in Might.
Might is the perfect month of the yr in Prague — so that you wager I used to be completely happy to be right here!
Locations Visited
- Prague and Vraňany, Czech Republic
Highlights
A pleasant, lazy month in Prague. That was good.
The month included visiting new eating places (together with Vietnamese spot Rice Subject), and spending a number of time with buddies.
We celebrated the St. John Navalis competition in Prague for the primary time — which, actually, is probably the most non secular I’ve ever seen this very atheistic nation get! There have been non secular processions by town, adopted by a finale on the river with paragliders leaping from the sky, some even flying beneath the Charles Bridge!
And meals festivals, after all — together with Pivo a Burger, one in every of my all-time favorites, which takes place proper in my neighborhood and options every kind of beers and burgers! There was additionally Korso Krymska, one other enjoyable meals competition.
We had our favourite Italian meals competition at The Italians Wine and Meals Market, which we be certain that to hit up yearly.
Associates came around, together with my pricey pal Tess and her husband Michael!
Visiting Vraňany. I’m visiting a brand new Czech vacation spot each month of 2024, and this was my new spot — a strawberry farm within the city of Vraňany, which is accessible each by automotive and by prepare.
Yep, Charlie and I went strawberry selecting, because it’s the perfect time of yr for strawberries! I feel we have been the one folks there with out youngsters, and shortly realized why — strawberry selecting is so onerous in your knees!!
We ended up making strawberry spoon cake, strawberry summer season cake, and strawberry lemon sorbet.
Challenges
I at all times say that Might is the perfect month of the yr to go to Prague, with completely beautiful climate. And it’s — however this occurred to be a cloudier, rainier Might than the previous few years.
Oh properly. That occurs once in a while!
That, and I received a chilly for the fourth month in a row. I would like a break. (Happily, since I’m getting this piece printed so late, I can affirm that I used to be cold-free for the month of June!)
And we have been presupposed to see Bruce Springsteen on the finish of Might, however he injured his vocal cords and needed to cancel. It’s been rescheduled for June 2025. Ah properly!
Weblog Posts of the Month
Guide Membership This Month
Our subsequent ebook membership will happen on Sunday, August 18, 2024. We shall be studying Dearborn, a brief story assortment by American writer Ghassan Zeineddine.
“Spanning a number of a long time, Ghassan Zeineddine’s debut assortment examines the varied vary and complexities of the Arab American neighborhood in Dearborn, Michigan. In ten tragicomic tales, Zeineddine explores themes of id, generational conflicts, conflict trauma, migration, sexuality, queerness, dwelling and belonging, and extra.
In Dearborn, a father teaches his son tips on how to cheat the IRS and conceal their money earnings inside frozen chickens. Tensions heighten inside a close-knit group of {couples} when a mysterious man begins to frequent the native gymnasium pool, wearing Speedos printed with nostalgic photographs of Lebanon. And a failed stage actor makes an attempt to drive a younger Lebanese man with ambitions of turning into a Hollywood motion hero to LA, however Immigration and Customs Enforcement brokers produce other plans.
By turns wildly humorous, incisive, and deeply shifting, Dearborn introduces readers to an arresting new voice in modern fiction and invitations us all to contemplate what it means to be a part of a spot and neighborhood, and the way it’s that we assist each other survive.”
You’ll be able to enroll right here. Hope to see you there!
Most Fashionable Reel on Instagram
So in Might, I created a Reel that made A LOT OF PEOPLE MAD. It’s about Individuals of Italian descent who go to Italy and say “I’m Italian!” Persons are nonetheless insulting every thing and everybody within the feedback, two months later. Simply have a look.
For extra updates from my travels, observe me on Instagram at @adventurouskate!
What I Watched This Month
Can I simply remind you ways superb of a present Hacks is? It’s the perfect comedy on TV, with crisp and livid writing, and it stars a girl in her 70s, the fabulous Jean Sensible. The third season got here out this month, and it’s as fabulous as ever. It’s on HBO. Watch it!
Under Deck replace: This month Charlie and I completed Crusing Yacht Season 3, which I feel is among the all-time nice seasons of the franchise. The very best crew. Some superior friends and a few unhinged friends. All set on the gorgeous island of Menorca.
Coming Up in June 2024
It is a very massive journey month! I’m heading to the States for just a few weeks, spending more often than not based mostly on the North Shore of Massachusetts.
And there are journeys inside the journey. I’ll be heading to Maine for just a few days. Canada for just a few days.
However the BIG journey inside the journey is Scottsdale, Arizona! I’ll be visiting Scottsdale with three of my closest buddies as all of us rejoice turning 40 in 2024! There’s going to be SO a lot superior stuff on this journey, and I can’t wait to share it with all of you.
Later within the month, I fly again to Prague, hang around with our house- and cat-sitter for twenty-four hours, then fly to Naples, Italy — the place I’ll meet Charlie, seize a lightning-fast pizza, after which we’ll hop on a ship to the island of Ventotene!
What did you rise up to in Might? Share away!
