Lost days.

Life just doesn't happen if there's no one there to photograph it. Well when I'm not there to capture it, or I'm there but have no camera to shoot it. I'd say it again if I could come up with another simile for "to take a photograph".

Saturday was the summer solstice, here in the northern hemisphere. The day, where absolutely everything happens, particularly when it falls on a Saturday, which it did. Festivals and parties all over the place. One of them was the annual veggie parade, which I took part in. And yes, it did really happen, and I was really there, I have photos to prove it. We wandered through the streets of Prague, shouting slogans, some, especially the English ones, quite silly, among people with banners, in costumes, with dogs, with kids. We stopped, we froze, we kept chanting. Then had ice cream and snacks, well waited for ages for 2 guys in the vegan ice cream line, while having other non ice cream food, and beer. Like I said, that happened.

Oh yeah the world cup is on too. You may have heard about it. A bunch of people from a bunch of countries get together somewhere, this time Brazil, to play football. Some countries pretty much always go and pretty much always get through to the second round to battle it out for the big games but some of those didn't get that far this year. We watched a game, first half near the final point of the walk and half of it nearer to our next destination. Argentina won that game.

The last thing didn't happen. Well it sorta happened. I went there, and I'd had a few beers and stuff and we went to go on and the guy at the door searched my bag and said "you can't bring in a camera" it sounded like he said "you can bring in a camera" because of his accent, so I said yeah I have a camera, not that he wouldn't have known I have one because it's quite bulky, so we had to go and store it at the office. Yeah there's an office, not relevant.

So we went back, without the camera, except that bit didn't happen. Ok so it did, but fuzzily, with low resolution. The people with iphones got to experience it properly, in video and everything.. of course, those don't count as a camera, so you can take those in.. must remember to acquire one of those. I didn't see any of that of course.

Oh and the next few days didn't happen at all. That's why I didn't write then.

Enough to get a bit parched..

Some doggies yesterday for the Prague Veggie Parade 2012. Was a fine day.. mostly, bit hot, bit cool, bit in between and the parade was long for a lazy ass person like myself but pretty cool.

And the afterparty in the park was, well it was hanging out in the park.

Oh and go vegan! I mean.. if you want.. or as close as you can.. *not exactly, well not at all vegan myself*

A parade.. and no rain!

It's raining today. Again. It didn't rain yesterday, strangely enough. Strange in the way that "it always rains when you least want it to" and yesterday I actually was out doing outdoor stuff.. joined a scheduled parade in fact.. and it was the perfect opportunity for a rainstorm especially since it's rained every other day for the past few weeks. It was overcast, and got cold when the wind blew and it was quite a windy day so there was cause for grumbling, but at least it didn't rain on our parade.. and yes the only reason for this post is to use that sentence.

The parade was the Veggie Parade, a celebration of animals and vegetarianism and veganism. Now.. in full disclosure I'm not actually a real official vegetarian with papers.. in fact I'm not at all really, but I sort of am a de facto vegetarian in that I haven't eaten meat in.. some time now.. living with a real life vegetarian with papers.

It was pleasant, though the weather wasn't.. as I mentioned already.. exactly ideal, but not being too hot was probably good. We walked up the hill, past people who usually gawked and smiled at us, with dogs barking and music playing.. got to a park where there was supposed to be music but it took so long to start and it was a bit cold so we left before the big events started, but we did see a pretty awesome dance performance which was real.. er.. interesting. Not exactly technically excellent, nor decipherable.. or... well let's just say the guy really really believed in what he was doing. It was kind of a you have to be there sort of thing.

Apart from that.. not much. It should have been a more exciting day but unfortunately I'm kind of a lightweight.

It rained today and I stayed in all day. It was actually a pretty cool day.