Swobodin v Brně

• Prices are so high, dishes prices consist of 3 digits each one, you are lucky if you find some salad for 150 CZK
• Unlike in Brno, where tram tickets are sold in tobacco shops, 3 day tickets are only sold in information centers in big metro stations, which are closed on Saturday. The automates have 24 day tickets, but accept coins of 20 czk max, and in small tram stations, there’s no automate, which forces me sometimes to take the tram without paying. I am not proud of it, but I really had no choice.
• My accommodation is located on the 4th floor, no elevator. Certainly I could admire the architecture of the beginning of the XXth century, but it was not funny at all when carrying 30 kg of luggage.
• By 23:00, you have to find a restaurant still open whose the bill won’t exceed 600 czk for one person.
• After midnight, no more trams, and there were no night trams that lead to the place I was living, and of course, taxi is not cheap at all.
• Africans who insist to invite you to cabarets, Junkies who propose marijuana and Gypsy girls suggesting “seex” and “blue” job.
• Beggars sitting in humiliating position in the old town. How can a human being do such a thing? I could not even dare take pictures of them. Homeless sleeping in Václavské námestí, it was cold, rainy and sometimes snowy.
• Beggars seem to make an international business! One of them came to me asking for “money” (in English), and it was not everything. Another one came to me when I was sitting (tired, I could not escape him) and asked if I spoke Czech, I told that no, he asked if I spoke English or German, I told no neither, when he wondered I answered: “francuzský a penězí nemám” (French, and I don’t have money). Never been so proud to become a poor French.
• There was no many pubs offering Budweiser, Staropramen was however more available.

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