Am back in Prague for 3 weeks

Check out my New Prague Blog just for this trip only; 7 - 28 September 2011

http://ambackincz.blogspot.com

s bohem...

Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetime, is certain for those who are friends. ~Richard Bach


It has been wonderful!!

Thank you !!

Coming Home

...kids.... am coming home.

Can't wait to see you.

...and Finally the Last piece of Chocolate....

and finally as I left "My Cafe", I was given one last piece of Chocolate...Something I will always fondly remember, not for the chocolate, but for the ones who so freely gave me it and their hearts of gold.

My Way

In thinking of my Life here in Prague, I did just that. Lived it my Way.

Whether it was How I lived
How I wrote my blog
Where I traveled
How I taught
How hard I fell,
Who I Liked, who became special to me
or the cultural norms I often over looked...
by writing too much or giving too much...

I lived here in Prague to the fullest
Enjoyed most every moment here in this wonderful place.

But I was an American, AM an American,
I WAS different, Many saw it, and several (many?) could not understand me.
But, alas...

I did it MY way.

Cheers. Tak, zatim ahoj

A Final evening at Kavovarna; "My Café"

You have read my thoughts about my favorite place in Prague many times, so where else
would you find me on my last evening in Prague; Mate pravdu, at "My Café"

On this 15th day of March, what added to the extra-specialness of this evening, was that it was my Friend Alex's Birthday as well; 64 today. I brought in a Swiss Dark Chocolate cake in for Alex and also had a very small bottle of Bohemian Sec, the Czech equivalent of Champagne for him as well. Happy Birthday my Friend!

Was very Hard to say goodbye to all my waitress friends this evening, and two very special friends stopped in this evening and spent the entire evening talking with me(us), even though they were not even working tonight. So Very Nice; they are very special people. I had a ceramic flower for every friend there as a small departing gift, 15 in all; perhaps something to remember me by but clearly something I wanted to give to each of them.

The Top picture above was a gift from these five friends; a photo taken in the Franciscan garden, presented to me last night in a nice frame. I was not expecting it, but am so glad to receive it. Priceless in fact.

The 2nd picture is of the Café as taken in Lucerna passage, it is at the opposite end of the passage from David Cerny's upside down hanging horse, directly across from the entrance to "Velky Sal".

This evening, as well, the owner brought out some special wine for me as well as book by a Czech that he knows and also presented me with a Special Copy of the Café Menu, something that really means alot, since not only he gave it to me, but many of my friends there signed it as if it was a yearbook. Thanks Ivan and to all my friends at "My Cafe". Dekuju moc.

Then it was time to say Goodbye to Friends made over the past couple years, that grew from a small seed planted, and then was nurtured over time: Alex and Ada, and Klara, Tereza, Petra, Petra and Anna (and Marketa). I will miss you all.

...and then time to say Good-bye to this Café,
...until I am able to return someday.

A Final walk through Lucerna...

as I have walked a thousand times...