Sabrina Dent: Freelance web designer, developer and internet marketer living in Cork, Ireland with one dog and a husband in no particular order.
The Escapist
So as the weather turns a bit warmer and plans for summer firm up, it appears my husband is leaving me, again. This time it will be a week for the Glastonbury Festival and four weeks for the Edinburgh Festival. He booked his ticket for Glastonbury last night, at which point I told him to hand over his credit card because fair is fair and I too am getting the hell out of Dodge.
I have said this in advance of every summer for five years in a row. The mistake I have made up until now is trying to book a July holiday between his June and August commitments at a time we can both go away and to a destination we can both agree on. Every summer, we have completely failed to tick these boxes, and I have found myself facing a chilly September with not nearly enough air miles behind me.
This year I said “sod that for a game of soldiers” and let Aer Lingus have its pilfering way with me. Direct flights are a bit limited, but considering that I live in Cork, I’m delighted to have an airport at all and am not really going to start bitching that I can’t jet into Cannes on a whim. Of the available options, I have no interest in going to Berlin, I’ve already spent a lot of time in Rome, and I’d be happy to go to Spain again except the rest of you will already be there. So five minutes after demanding my husband hand over plastic liberty, I picked a destination very nearly at random and booked tickets to Prague.
I know absolutely nothing about Prague except that I’m staying at the Pension Museum. I assume this means there is a museum nearby, and that sounds nice because I enjoy museums, particularly when I have no idea what’s in them. I imagine there will also be coffee, books and whatever incarnation of Czech pastry passes for breakfast at noon.
I both love and like my other half but I have a deeply ingrained habit of traveling on my own. We are not the same person and we don’t have perfectly aligned tastes, and I have this suspicion that nothing will exhaust a marriage as much as 40 years of constant compromise. That just sounds hideously frustrating. So for five days in July, there will be museums, graveyards, bookstores, fabric and bead stores.
There will not, however, be tents, mud or any kind of portaloos.
11 Apr 2008
| In: Domesticities |
Prague is amazing… you’ll love it! Put off any major purchases until you get there. Cosmetics, clothes, same brands 1/4 of the price. Awesome! The markets are fab. *SIGH* The idea of travelling alone appeals to me too – hitting Belgium alone in a few weeks, but alas just for the piss up that is my class reunion! Enjoy!
11.04.2008, 3:34 pmYou’ve just described my idea of a perfect holiday (not the one with tent and mud )
11.04.2008, 4:53 pm1/4 off the price? ORLY? :)
Cathy, you can come, too! You just can’t make me go to the pub :)
Excellent choice, Sabrina – I love traveling by myself, too, and Prague is fabulous. You will love it.
If you’re looking for cool museums, I recommend both the torture museum and the tarantula museum because a) they’re incredibly unique & bizarro and b) they’re right next to each other so you can be lazy but still sound like you were really a go-getter on your vacation. Always a plus in my book.
14.04.2008, 1:52 amGo to the Municipal House, it’s incredibly beautiful and inspiring. You have to take a tour but it’s really good.
And the Mucha museum, do that before the MH.
It’s worth getting a box for the ballet/opera.
There’s a really gorgeous Japanese restaurant, and a nice place that does tex mex and giant margaritas.
There’s a whole Vagabond shoe shop!
The castle’s not that exciting.
I haven’t been to the vibrator museum yet, but it might be fun.
Prague is great, enjoy :)
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