'The Lengths' accepted by Smiths Knoll.


The disengaged red-haired girl Alice : 'I like: techno.'


A year ago at the fireworks.
Someone shouts:"Are you making her laugh?'


Making for Stramberk, a fairytale village - of wooden houses, pinesmoke and a single hilltop tower.

A couple took us to the road I wanted.

We walked, their white fighting-dog Alba destroying every plastic bottle in sight, rushing past our trouser legs, scouring the plain, weighing the children flying kites. Two long kilometres.

Strong and creamy beer cheese.

Ollamouc. A sleazy hotel like a 1970s film. Lights that hung low and glowed lemon. Edward Hopper / The Shining. A Neptune platter.

Novy Jicin The perfect bus - Polish films on TV sets with earphones, tea and coffee on request; Czech mountains out the window like in The Little Prince.