Praise be to the Lord Jesus Christ, from time immemorial for ever and ever, amen. My journey began the day before, on March 14, 2016 at 11:48 PM. I knew I was leaving much too early, but home had become unbearable, and if I ran into any delay on the way, at least I would still make it. I didn’t look at the time, I just went.
Walking 7 km in 1 hour doesn’t look like any extreme feat; it’s the pace that nutritionists recommend as optimal for losing weight and for a healthy lifestyle. But as soon as I stepped under the little shelter by the underpass, I couldn’t bear it with my left foot any longer, and only then did I discover that my left sock had a hole the size of half my sole.
There was nothing to be done, I had no spare socks, and without any at all I wouldn’t have made it anywhere, so I simply turned the sock around so the bottom was covered. I arrive at the station, and it is much calmer than in September, when I left from here to see Sany in Hradec Kralove, only not on RegioJet but on the EN 442 Bohemia, which in the current timetable reaches Pardubice at 6:40, while the RJ gets there at 3:48.
Inconspicuously at first, but with every minute more and more snowflakes began falling from the sky, and Mother Nature took real care over them, so in a little while everything lay under a white blanket. The parked CityElefant on platform 3 had its noisy air conditioning running all night, supposedly because in the summer months the temperature inside the train could climb as high as 60 °C at night, and in winter something containing water might burst.
Yeah, sure =D. You can read more about it at https://www.lidovky.cz/byznys/fejkuv-zlepsovak-hucici-vlak-jezdi-prazdny.A110713_152115_ln-doprava_nev or https://www.metro.cz/praha/z-nadrazi-se-ozyva-huceni-slonu-hlucna-klimatizace-duni-karlinem-i-novym-mestem.A150609_192931_co-se-deje_jsk?c=A150609_192931_co-se-deje_jsk . I took a trip to the Bozi kameny (God’s Stones) in the village of Kraselov.
It is very different there from here, where it is city upon city and it’s hard to find a truly quiet place; out there it is more just wilderness, almost as if I were comparing New York with some small Czech town. Photos at https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNBBiyGS0CHc5tKEGj0Ob59I4WWqPA9XQ4qaA6smoemstW15V9QDx9WwpwAkxZSDQ?key=c2ZmN1EwSDFtQjgzOURSN1QtUHVaT1BTdUNycU9R . 12 hours in Kraselov/Krasne. Half a day. The right time.