Ahoj (Hello) Prague,
It’s been a year since I stepped out of the taxi and opened the front door of the apartment I would call home for the next four months. I remember how difficult it was to get used to walking on your cobblestones. The toes of my shoes kept getting stuck between each crack.
After dropping my bags off, my roommate and I walked down the street in awe at the intricate details of your buildings. I stumbled over your cobblestones more than I’d like to admit.
“Pick up your feet, pick up your feet,” I thought to myself as a walked next to my roommate I had not met a mere 5 minutes before.
Prague, it’s hard to express into words what you meant to me during those four months away from home. You taught me how easy it is to fall in love with traveling and with cities I had never been to.
Maybe most importantly, you taught me what it means to truly miss something. There hasn’t been a time or a place in my life that I ache to go back to more than this whirlwind adventure you put me through. I could write a never-ending list of what I miss about you, but in the interest of time (and in the interest of preserving my own tears), I’ll name a few of my favorite things I miss every day.
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