amusing
Okay so europe updates, cousin's wedding was at first frustrating which resutled in the folowing being consumed- 3 glasses french cask wine (no beter than Australian stuff) 2 glases decent bordeauxian red, 2 glasses punch, 3 glasses champagne, then amusing (partiaully because of said alcohol also because of amusing indian guests who manaed to offend the Lao people by actually enjoying themselves in a non lao mannner) not the younger ones but more those 40+ and then not even all of them (and those that were offended probably would have ben offended any anything non lao in any circumstnce in life)
kind of negatives
I had to meet too many relatives again, it seems the purporse of my mother's travel was to meet relos and go to the tackiest places and take photos in front of them
I had to shave my head but not to 0 (which I would have preferred i I was going to lose my hair) but 1 and most of the relos don't speak english (the oldies peak generally spoke lao and young un's whatever the major tonge was so either french which can understnd every fifth word of or flemish which I can't)
truly fucking dark at
+ finally travelling by myself (thank god) I've discovered how true the accusations are of a fair number of czech people not liking people with darker skin, the racism is fucking annoying, particularly in shops and trying to ask directions on the streetm it's not even subtle I swear you can see the disgust in their faces. Fuck em. Seriously I'm used to odd stares but this is ridiculous I'm almost
note- apparently it's not just darker skinned people, it could just be a cultural thing/misinterpretation or a dislike of foreigners or those who speak english, basically any number of things
The positives
Food, food, glorious food, noms real baguettes rock, unpasturised cheese rocks, bordeuxian reds rock, german beers and wurst rock, country life (a little vegan place in Prague/Praha) is fantastic for cheap good tasty food, the difference in architecture over here just blows my mind and if I get around to uploading phots you guys will see it's become a bit more of a fetish) the followng people particularly rock right now, Nae for cheering me up when I lost my hair and for lending me her copy of the Lonely Planet Europe on a shoe string (which also rocks), Katleen from Belgium fantastic women whom would sit there with me and talk politics, race issues, food whatever came to mind till late and whose little family I absolutely adored.
I enjoy travelling particularly at my own pace and it does help that I'm alone in some ways for that still miss my friends of course, but I'm here and is most definitely an experience don't know how I'm going to deal with going back to the real world.
Okay so europe updates, cousin's wedding was at first frustrating which resutled in the folowing being consumed- 3 glasses french cask wine (no beter than Australian stuff) 2 glases decent bordeauxian red, 2 glasses punch, 3 glasses champagne, then amusing (partiaully because of said alcohol also because of amusing indian guests who manaed to offend the Lao people by actually enjoying themselves in a non lao mannner) not the younger ones but more those 40+ and then not even all of them (and those that were offended probably would have ben offended any anything non lao in any circumstnce in life)
kind of negatives
I had to meet too many relatives again, it seems the purporse of my mother's travel was to meet relos and go to the tackiest places and take photos in front of them
I had to shave my head but not to 0 (which I would have preferred i I was going to lose my hair) but 1 and most of the relos don't speak english (the oldies peak generally spoke lao and young un's whatever the major tonge was so either french which can understnd every fifth word of or flemish which I can't)
truly fucking dark at
+ finally travelling by myself (thank god) I've discovered how true the accusations are of a fair number of czech people not liking people with darker skin, the racism is fucking annoying, particularly in shops and trying to ask directions on the streetm it's not even subtle I swear you can see the disgust in their faces. Fuck em. Seriously I'm used to odd stares but this is ridiculous I'm almost
note- apparently it's not just darker skinned people, it could just be a cultural thing/misinterpretation or a dislike of foreigners or those who speak english, basically any number of things
The positives
Food, food, glorious food, noms real baguettes rock, unpasturised cheese rocks, bordeuxian reds rock, german beers and wurst rock, country life (a little vegan place in Prague/Praha) is fantastic for cheap good tasty food, the difference in architecture over here just blows my mind and if I get around to uploading phots you guys will see it's become a bit more of a fetish) the followng people particularly rock right now, Nae for cheering me up when I lost my hair and for lending me her copy of the Lonely Planet Europe on a shoe string (which also rocks), Katleen from Belgium fantastic women whom would sit there with me and talk politics, race issues, food whatever came to mind till late and whose little family I absolutely adored.
I enjoy travelling particularly at my own pace and it does help that I'm alone in some ways for that still miss my friends of course, but I'm here and is most definitely an experience don't know how I'm going to deal with going back to the real world.