Lenka
January
2004
A few days after Xmas and a
week of agonising, I decided to not worry about the money (or my lack of
it) and go to Prague to catch up with Lenka, a lovely Czech girl I had met
for just one day in the middle of the Amazon jungle in Brazil nearly a
year before. A few days later I was on the plane to Prague.
Lenka and I
in Manaus, Brazil in March 2003. I look really thin in the face in
this photo.
3-4 days of
no sleep on a houseboat in mosquito infested jungle will do that to you.
I was a bit worried that I
wouldn't recognise her as it was snowing and below zero as we came into
land and she would be completely rugged up. The last time we saw
each other was in Brazil and we had considerably less clothes on.
Still, it didn't turn out to be a problem ... despite being rugged up,
Lenka had a hand crafted sign with my name on it as I walked out of
immigration. Nice! I love going out with tour guides!
It was a little funny
meeting and going home to someone's place after knowing them for just one
day ten months previously and '000s of kilometres away on the other side
of the planet ... but ... it felt like only two weeks had passed.
It's funny how these things
work. Prague Spring came early.
Anyway ... we spent
New Years Eve together,
toured around Prague for a day
and went up to visit her parents in the country spa town of
Luhacovice.
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