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PLZEN
HOME
LIFE
Our first
home for 16 days was a tiny penzion
Privat Majak with one room no bigger than a walkway and bed, access to
a
kitchen for $30/night (that is $900/month!). The
attached bathroom had a wand for a faucet that you
used to take a shower
over the tiny sink & floor drain. Heat
was only on
from 8-10 am and 4-8 pm and there were snowflakes
ourside! But the neighborhood was single
dwelling homes, each with carefully cared-for flower gardens and easy
access to
the countryside, so it was a good location for starters.
April 1 we moved into a 4 story building in a
central neighborhood with major green spaces, a park, children’s
kindergarden,
clay tennis courts, corner grocery store, and 20 minute walk across the
fields
to the university, all for $10/night or $350/month total and feel very
fortunate to have found it through our friend Pavel (lots of
connections through sports).
The last pictures show is where we catch the tram & the
amusing posters that greet us
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I am standing at the other door
!!! Very cosy.
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Surrounded by intricate rock
gardens on all side of the penzion.
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New apartment top floor, second
balcony from right next to the tree
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Light the gas burners with a
match, just like when I grew up.
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Another country, leaving another
shower curtain.
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Magpies have built a nest in the
treetop
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In front of the family grocery
store at the corner.
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In the park
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Out our kitchen window, don't
know what kind of tree it is but it is 4 stories tall.
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Our tram stop and the
signs that greet us when we get off the tram.
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It says something like "Wake up
with a smile, win a vacation of $5,000. Impuls Radio". I
think he looks like Hugh Grant.
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What man wouldn't buy his wife
this vacuum if she wanted it.
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Don't know what it says -- it's
new but has to do with culture "Travel free Czech KDU-CSL Summer
bask.........? music?"
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