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Swallows.
Swallows everywhere. That's going to be one of my abiding impressions. I arrived at just the right point in late spring or early summer that every time I look up, the sky is full of swallows – or possibly swifts, if you'll pardon my ornithological inexactitude. Here and in Prague, both. It's a delight – they're a rare sight in British cities, although I've seen them in the countryside, of course – but here they swarm right in the city centre. To the point that their scratchy, squeaky calls are almost (but not quite) becoming annoying.
The sounds of Brno in summer: swallows and tram bells. (I really wanted to get a Ransome¹ reference in there but it just wouldn't work.) Apparently trams are my #1 category on Foursquare this month. Not surprised – apart from a couple of nightbuses, they're exclusively how I get around Brno. I'm getting lazy; there seems no point walking 5min around a block when the tram takes 2min and there's one every 2min.
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¹ You know, Swallows and Bells-on-trams² or something like that.
² Note for foreign readers, of which I gather I'm getting a few: it's a terrible pun on the title of a classic British children's book, Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome.
Swallows everywhere. That's going to be one of my abiding impressions. I arrived at just the right point in late spring or early summer that every time I look up, the sky is full of swallows – or possibly swifts, if you'll pardon my ornithological inexactitude. Here and in Prague, both. It's a delight – they're a rare sight in British cities, although I've seen them in the countryside, of course – but here they swarm right in the city centre. To the point that their scratchy, squeaky calls are almost (but not quite) becoming annoying.
The sounds of Brno in summer: swallows and tram bells. (I really wanted to get a Ransome¹ reference in there but it just wouldn't work.) Apparently trams are my #1 category on Foursquare this month. Not surprised – apart from a couple of nightbuses, they're exclusively how I get around Brno. I'm getting lazy; there seems no point walking 5min around a block when the tram takes 2min and there's one every 2min.
( Read more... )
¹ You know, Swallows and Bells-on-trams² or something like that.
² Note for foreign readers, of which I gather I'm getting a few: it's a terrible pun on the title of a classic British children's book, Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome.
