Kate

May is almost over and the summer is in the air! What a wonderful time of the year! And what I have been up to lately?

Mother's Day

Second Sunday in May is Mother's Day and this year, me and my sister took Mum to a local restaurant she had never been before and we all enjoyed the visit. Afterr that we bought her a bunch of flowers and came straight home to enjoy coffee time together.

Night of Museums

This year, I visited a local museum of Glass and Jewellery where I had been before, but can't remember when... let's say it by a quote: A long time ago, in a museum not so far away...
But back to this year! I liked every single floor! Okay, the modern art is really ugly (for me), because I don't understand it (obviously). But! The classic and simple glass is fantastic. And if I were to ask which thing I liked the best in the whole museum I would definitely say Le Tour de France Trophy! I love watching the Tour and the trophies look amazing. So, if you are also fans of guys and bikes, July is coming!

Bosh Fresh Festival

Food. Coffee. Nearby city. Famous Czech cook. Local restaurants.
That was Bosh Fresh Festival I visited this year.

Halwa shot-yoghut, oat-flakes, mint

Coconut - for the first time in my life! Tasty, but tooooo sweet :-)

And of course-gelato!

Me & Gardening

Me and plants, flowers and trees, it is not a good combination. I tend to forget about them so often, they usually die (sooner or later). This summer I wanted to have more flowers on our balcony, but some resistant, so I bought a succulent! His name is František and here he is:

Hello guys!


How are you? I haven't been writing any new posts lately, because I didn't really have any inspiration. However, today I finished watching 13 Reasons Why and it left me speechless. The show is really something and I mean it in a good way. It is not just another teenage TV show. The message of this show is strong and powerful and its aim is to prevent self-destructive behavior, especially suicides and all kind of things that can leed to them.
Okay, my high school wasn't that bad, it wasn't bad at all. I had my friends and subjects I liked and the social media wasn't that popular at that time and they didn't effect my school life at all.
Yet, the show influenced me.

I am also not a high school kid anymore and I am grateful. Kids are evil and they can be mean. O nthe other side,I know that things that happens to you on high school doesn't matter few years later. The life goes on, people go on. It is pitty that you don't know these things when you are a high school student.
And now, years later, my high school is over, I am happy and I love myself (and I think I learnt it by myself). My parents love me, but in their own way and I know it's hard for them to love me with every decision I make and with everything I do. For example, I know they hate my tattoos and I know that my Dad is pissed off, because I didn't finish college. Not enough for you? My granparents are pissed off too. Also because of the college. So I just wanted to pointed out that my background is not ideal and that my parents don't love me unconditionally and I don't blame them. I want to say that the way how you see yourself is the most imporant. I don't care what people say/think about me. I am the only person I know for sure I will spend the rest of my life with and I have to be 100% happy about everything I do, because all the consequences of my decisions are something I have to live with forever.

Part of family lives in Prague, so I go there quite often to visit them.

Manon

However, this time I wasn't going there only because of my family, but also because some time ago I bought tickets to the National Theatre in Prague to see Manon Lescaut - a  story about love and suffer. I saw a photo from this piece in some magazine and I knew I want to see it and now I am glad I did see it. It was cruel and sad and realistic and understandable, also tragic, funny, romantic, surprising and not exactly happy ending. So that was on Friday.

Saturday & Sunday

On Saturday morning we had a little walk in Prague, visited Vyšehrad and had a really bad view, it was all foggy and not sunny at all then we went to Náplavka where a traditional market was taking place and it felt so cool. There was food and coffee and flowers and clothes, literally everything you can think of was there! I have never been to this market before :-) After that we were sooo hungry that we had to go somewhere and have something to eat and we ended up in running sushi and I felt like I am in Heaven! We spent there almost two hours and I ate everything, or at least I felt like I did! The rest of the day involved coffee, relaxing and walking, together with wine drinking and watching films from the days my elder sister was a child.


Sunday was the day we made over 22 000 steps and maybe that is also why my legs hurt on Monday. We visited Starbucks (I was there for the very first time in my life) and had a coffee, stayed at granparents' home to have lunch toegether and of course a coffee together and in the afternoon we packed up our things and with our luggage went to the centre where were soooo many many people, so instead of romantic walk in a historical part of the town before we left it felt more like in a horror zombie movie!


Still, it was a nice and lovely weekend. I hope you had a good weekend too!

Last year I worked in a local cafe and found out everything (or almost everything) about a job I have always wanted to do.
You see it on TV, in the movies, you read about that in books...working in a cafe is romantic and fun. Or at least I thought so. The reality is sometimes the same as in my dreams, but somedays were just so crazy I was glad when I was closing at night and headed straight home to bed.
However, I am really glad I got a chance to work as a barista and I felt like a main character in a romantic film. I also learnt so many things about myself and about this profession and now I want to share it all with you.

Beginnings

That was me when I came last year into a local cafe and asked for a job. And I got it. And that's where the story begins...
First thing I started with was coffee preparation. Until that I knew only one type of coffee: my homemade instant Nescafé I loved, but suddenly I found out there are so many types of coffee: Americano, Espresso, Cappucino, Doppio, Lungo, Ristretto, Flat white, Irish Coffee, Caffe latte, Turkish Coffee and also very special ones such as French Press, Chemex, Cezve or Moka pot...
My head almost exploded. I didn't even know how to prepare the basic espresso and I didn't know the difference between espresso and ristretto. Or which mug/cup/glass is suitable for them.
Second thing I learnt was how to make steamed and foamed milk. Oh my Gosh! If rememberign all types of coffees and their preparations were hard, this was like stepping on the Moon for the first time. I had no idea what I was doing. You use steam to transform the cold milk into steamed or foamed milk and you have to find just the right angle and just the right time of heating. If you boil the milk you are screwed, if you have the wrong angle you probably make so many bubbles and to be honest, it took me some time to learn all this.

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