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Well, in some ways, things are turning out more or less as expected. For instance, three months here have absolutely flown by; I just had to count up how long I'd been here as I couldn't believe it. Other aspects have not -- for instance, the loss of my job. So much for my nascent career as a tech writer -- the next position I've found for myself will be in customer liaison instead, a different new direction. (It was that or go back into Java middleware, but this time, supporting it. Possibly in French.)
I'm adjusting to life here reasonably well. I know where enough local shops are to fend for myself, I'm finding where there are bargains to be had as well as what's expensive. I know that there are many more I've yet to discover, though -- I hear there's a Marks & Spencer somewhere, for instance. Thanks to the generosity of a new friend who was departing the city for pastures new, I now have a fully-equipped kitchen, so being mostly out of work in July has caused me to do more cooking at home and a bit less eating out, with positive impact on the waistline. A land where a beer is about €1 -- under a quid -- has not been kind. I've been swimming more than I have since the Caribbean, but I'd need to do miles every day to work it all off.
Perhaps oddly for a landlocked country, or then again perhaps logically, Brno abounds in good swimming pools. My personal favourite so far is the Aquapark in the green and very hilly suburb of Kohotouvice, which boasts a rooftop pool, a jacuzzi, a big oddly-shaped fun pool with sprays and fountains and a water-roundabout, plus a lane-swimming pool, and a long spiralling waterslide that made your 46-year-old correspondent whoop like a child.
Twice.
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I'm adjusting to life here reasonably well. I know where enough local shops are to fend for myself, I'm finding where there are bargains to be had as well as what's expensive. I know that there are many more I've yet to discover, though -- I hear there's a Marks & Spencer somewhere, for instance. Thanks to the generosity of a new friend who was departing the city for pastures new, I now have a fully-equipped kitchen, so being mostly out of work in July has caused me to do more cooking at home and a bit less eating out, with positive impact on the waistline. A land where a beer is about €1 -- under a quid -- has not been kind. I've been swimming more than I have since the Caribbean, but I'd need to do miles every day to work it all off.
Perhaps oddly for a landlocked country, or then again perhaps logically, Brno abounds in good swimming pools. My personal favourite so far is the Aquapark in the green and very hilly suburb of Kohotouvice, which boasts a rooftop pool, a jacuzzi, a big oddly-shaped fun pool with sprays and fountains and a water-roundabout, plus a lane-swimming pool, and a long spiralling waterslide that made your 46-year-old correspondent whoop like a child.
Twice.
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