Sorry for the delay in posting. Nazy and I have been traveling. Now we’re in Krakow, Poland. Nazy is ‘getting ready’, so I have plenty of time to work on the blog.
After several friends told her that “all the shops” in Rome would be closed for the Easter holiday, Nazy suggested an alternative arrangement. (“We can go to Rome another time, dear.”)
We decided on Krakow before checking on any navigational details. After checking, we looked at a map and decided that a mid-trip stop in Prague made sense. Naturally, we didn’t check on the availability of motorways in the Czech Republic or Poland. Even more ominously, we never czeched to see if Claudia, the car’s navigation automaton knew about Eastern Europe. (She doesn’t.)
As far as we can tell, the Czech national competency is an uncanny ability to create traffic jams in the middle of nowhere for no reason whatsoever. Frequently, motorways would give way to rural lanes in countryside. When that happened, there was an inevitable backup (average time: 40 minutes; average speed: 5 kph) at a roundabout in nowhereville.
When this happened, Nazy examined the ‘map’.
A map is a piece of paper filled with random lines and words. In this case, the ‘map’ had lots of words with hats. None of the words was pronounceable.
We finally made it to Prague – a beautiful city that we hadn’t seen in almost 20 years. Nazy was in Crystal Heaven – although some of the business establishments seemed a bit sketchy.
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