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April is without doubt one of the most pretty months in Prague — as it’s when the cherry blossoms burst into bloom. It’s one of the crucial comfortable instances to talk over with this town.
After spending maximum of February and March touring, I used to be overjoyed to spend a complete month throughout the town of Prague. It wasn’t very thrilling — however it was once precisely what I wanted.
Easter requires dressed in crimson and inexperienced!
Locations Visited
This side road stopped me in my tracks.
Highlights
Cherry blossom season. It’s so fleeting and one of these stunning time to be in Prague. I like how my community is especially awash in cherry blossoms!
Internet hosting Easter dinner in Prague. Charlie and I had a number of buddies over, and we had a good looking day. Klara made vitello tonnato, Charlie made roasted lamb and mashed potatoes, and I made dessert (extra on that under).
Actually bonding with the cats this month. Charlie is Lewis’s human, and he normally simply thinks I’m “the girl,” yet this month Charlie went on a industry go back and forth and we were given to bond and cuddle in combination.
And now Murray and I’ve bonded to some degree the place he sleeps towards me each and every evening, for a minimum of slightly. I feel I’m formally Murray’s human now.
Celebrating two years of marriage. Charlie and I spent our anniversary at considered one of our favourite Prague eating places, Aromi, consuming considered one of our favourite dishes, their truffle pasta.
My first vintage-fashion-by-the-kilo sale. I finished up getting a Valentino jacket and a Max Mara blazer for simply 55 EUR, in addition to a not-Hermès-but-clearly-Hermès-inspired shawl that felt gloriously silky for simply 5 EUR. It was once superb what was once simply striking out at the racks!
Either one of them are slightly giant for me, so I may get them adapted down — or promote them for an inexpensive worth, as higher garments are ceaselessly tricky to seek out in Europe.
“Out of doors is frightening. Proper, Lewis?”
“Yep. Out of doors is frightening.”
Demanding situations
No longer a lot dangerous took place this month, instead of some dull industry stuff that was once extra hectic than the rest.
We did take the cats for an out of doors talk over with for the primary time ever, taking them out onto our community sq. of their carriers, with them on leashes and one door open. Sooner than as of late, they just went outdoor to visit the vet.
And the cats…had been terrified the entire time. Concealed within the nook in their carriers, in the end were given up the nerve to show round and take a look at the entirety round them. Lewis hissed at slightly canine that were given too shut; Murray didn’t even need to pass after the birds.
So we do need to take them outdoor once more…yet I am hoping they’re much less scared.
I’m nonetheless getting physiotherapy for the hip damage I’ve been coping with, and it’s been taking slightly longer than anticipated to get my baseline degree of mobility again. Every so often it’s nearly there; occasionally it feels frozen. I’m thankful there is not any extra ache, despite the fact that.
Weblog Posts of the Month
Maximum Well-liked Reel on Instagram
This month, I were given my 5th million-view Instagram reel, and my first-ever million-view TikTok!
It’s about my prediction for the place the 4 season of The White Lotus will happen — and naturally, I embarrassingly pronounced the city fallacious, which could be why it went so viral!! You’ll be able to watch it on Instagram or on TikTok.
Different movies of the month come with What’s it really like to travel to Bhutan?, Will Americans Be Treated Badly in Europe?, and What to Wear on an Overnight Flight.
For extra shuttle movies, follow me on Instagram at @adventurouskate or on TikTok at @adventurouskate.
What I Cooked This Month
This month, I were given a Le Creuset Petal Braiser, which I noticed and right away idea it was once essentially the most stunning pan I’ve ever noticed. They’re expensive, yet they are able to ultimate many years, and I intend to make use of mine ceaselessly.
Mine is within the berry colour that isn’t recently to be had in the United States, yet a number of different stunning colours are!
To this point I’ve cooked a number of focaccias, rooster piccata, pasta sauces, a cacio e pepe Dutch child, rooster cutlets. And for Easter, I baked an enormous skillet chocolate chip cookie for my buddies to proportion.
I used this recipe from NYT Cooking (proficient hyperlink), and it got here out SO excellent (despite the fact that I did use part milk chocolate and part darkish chocolate, which I feel makes a perfect combine). Not anything like a melty-in-the-center cookie to complete a distinct meal!
What I Watched This Month
This month, my two giant suggestions are “pass in figuring out as little about it as imaginable” suggestions.
For TV, I used to be obsessive about Paradise. When you have a That is Us-shaped hollow on your center, you wish to have to observe this — it has the similar showrunner (Dan Fogelman), identical famous person (Sterling Okay. Brown), or even the similar composer (Siddhartha Kosla), which provides to the ambience.
Sterling Okay. Brown performs the lead Secret Provider agent for the U.S. President, who has been murdered. After which the display is going in an surprising course.
And for motion pictures, I completely liked Sinners. Directed via Ryan Coogler and starring no longer one yet two Michael B. Jordans (one thing I will be able to by no means whinge about, ever), it’s a duration piece set within the Mississippi Delta in 1932 — and is going in some really wild instructions.
That is technically a horror film — yet for those who’re a scaredy-cat like me, don’t let that stay you away. There are not any jumpscares; it’s extra of an motion film. I even walked house on my own at evening after seeing it with out a problems.
(And since I treated Sinners so neatly, a couple of days later, I made up our minds to observe Us for the primary time. Now THAT is a really horrifying movie! I couldn’t sleep for days!!!)
What I Listened To This Month
I’m being attentive to all 500 of Rolling Stone‘s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, which I’m taking part in immensely. I’m loving finding new artists and being attentive to albums I’ve by some means overlooked my whole lifestyles till now!
In April, I listened to albums 400-373. Listed here are the highlights:
Favourite Discovery: In Rainbows via Radiohead. This album was once famously the arena’s first pay-what-you-wish album via a significant artist, launched in 2007, yet I had no thought how stunning an album it was once. I’ve by no means in point of fact listened to Radiohead; I’ve simplest heard their songs right here and there. However that is so LIGHT and PRETTY and FULL OF STRINGS. God, I like strings. Give me the entire strings.
I even have to provide a shout-out to Brian Wilson Gifts “Smile” via Brian Wilson for being one of these complicated, surprising album. There may be such a lot lore in the back of this album I received’t pass into — yet suppose The Seaside Boys, simplest darker, extra mature, and blended up in a carnival. I needed to concentrate to it two times to in point of fact get it, yet WHAT A RIDE.
Different Favourite Discoveries: Diana via Diana Ross; One thing/Anything else? via Todd Rundgren; Younger, Proficient and Black via Aretha Franklin; Kaleidoscope via Kelis; When We All Fall Asleep, The place Do We Cross? via Billie Eilish.
Favourite Revisited Album: The Emancipation of Mimi via Mariah Carey. This was once Mariah’s giant comeback album when it got here out in 2005 — and truthfully, it’s rattling with reference to PERFECT. Mariah’s inimitable voice, Jermaine Dupri’s manufacturing, one of the crucial absolute best songs of the generation, wrapped up in love, heartbreak, and empowerment. It additionally doesn’t sound dated in any respect.
Honorary point out to Black Messiah via D’Angelo and the VanGuard, an album I’ve listened to ceaselessly because it got here out in 2014. D’Angelo hadn’t launched an album since 2000’s Voodoo, and because then he just about died in a automobile twist of fate and made up our minds to learn how to play guitar from scratch for his subsequent album. And the album is SO excellent. Darkish. Fierce. Romantic.
Favourite Songs: “Maps” via the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, “The Second” via Tame Impala, “New Romantics” via Taylor Swift, “Ghetto Kids” via Kelis, “Keep the Evening” via Mariah Carey, “Bizarre Fishes / Arpeggi” via Radiohead.
Get the playlist: I’m making a playlist of my favourite songs from the five hundred albums — most one in step with album — on Spotify. You can listen to it here.
Lowlight of the Month: Transferring Footage via Rush. I didn’t get this album, nor the sound of the band, in any respect. It sounded…nearly like a funny story?! Most certainly absolute best to mention that I’m really not the objective target market.
Random Ideas: My favourite tune of the month was once “Maps” via the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, which I had heard every so often yet by no means in point of fact listened to intently. Oddly, I may no longer stand lots of the album till that tune.
And a few a laugh details: Kelis and Juvenile each have songs referred to as “Ghetto Kids.” Taylor Swift and Todd Rundgren each have songs referred to as “Slut.” And it seems that a couple of songs about Kokomo exist, as a result of Aretha Franklin has one referred to as “First Snow in Kokomo.”
I’m excited to go back to Kraków.
Coming Up in Might 2025
This month will just about fully be spent in Prague as neatly. Towards the top of the month, Charlie and I are throwing a birthday celebration for Charlie’s fiftieth birthday and our 2nd anniversary, and we can be welcoming a number of family and friends to our town.
On the finish of the month, my pal Cailin and I will be able to be heading to Kraków, Poland, for a couple of days. I visited Kraków again in 2016 and completely fell in love with the town. I am hoping it’s as excellent as I bear in mind.
What are your plans for Might? Percentage away!
