We just got back from Prague, where we spent a few days exploring. Andy went once before he started his semester in Leeds, but I had never been, so it was quite an adventure.

The main things about Prague are these:

1. Cobbly Streets. I should have left my heals at home.
2. Concerts. Prague has an oddly extreme number of classical music concerts. We referred to them as “Greatest Hits” concerts, because they seemed to feature Vivaldi’s 4 Seasons, Dvorak’s New World Symphony, and Mozart’s Messiah, as well as a few shorter pieces by the aforementioned composers - maybe a little Haydn for good measure.
3. Pointy Buildings. Lots of beautiful churches with spires and suchlike.

That’s all I can remember right now, because my sleepy brain is about finished with thinking for the day. It was a wonderful time, and we learned about one of Prague’s Easter traditions. On Easter Monday - tomorrow - the men whip the women (presumably gently) with willow, and the women douse them with water to calm them down; then the women present the men with hand-painted eggs. How fun!! I wonder if I can get away with whipping Andy with sticks tomorrow - all in the festive spirit, of course.

Another point of note today comes up every time we travel within Europe. I have a UK (and therefore EU) passport, which means that when we go to all of these places, I get through immigration very quickly and pick up the luggage, and Andy meets me when he eventually gets through. Now the more traveling Andy does, the longer it takes him to get through the line. Lots of hemming and hawwing while immigration folk try to figure out why he has visas everywhere and suchlike.

All of that is fine, but what kills me is that I never get any stamps. Andy has so many stamps that he had to get extra pages in his passport. I have ZERO stamps in my EU passport, and I have acquired THREE total stamps in my US passport since we moved here - all of which were for traveling back to the US. So, one day, when our grandchildren are looking back through things and they find Andy’s passport, they’ll think he was some wonderful world traveler and that I stayed at home minding the garden and so forth. I was there, TOO!!

I suppose that in the long run, it’s cooler to have an EU passport with no stamps than only ONE passport with lots of stamps, but still - I wish I had some more passport stamps to show off. I guess I’ll just show off Andy’s passport stamps.