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Properly, one thing very massive occurred this month — Charlie and I acquired married! After practically 4 years collectively, we had the town corridor wedding ceremony of our desires on April 28, 2023.
This was the primary of our three weddings — the small, authorized wedding ceremony. After this one now we have our massive Prague wedding ceremony in late Might, and our smaller Boston wedding ceremony in early July.
Learn on for the marriage — and extra adventures on this previous month.
Locations Visited
- Prague, Karlštejn, Únětice, and Karlovy Range, Czech Republic
Highlights
Getting married! It was an superior day and we had a blast!
Some particulars: I wore an ivory Gaâla skirt swimsuit with an identical fascinator and gold Jonak pumps. Charlie wore a navy swimsuit with a white shirt and a purple tie. I carried a cat-safe bouquet with pale pink roses and freesia; Charlie wore an identical boutonniere.
We walked into the city corridor on Previous City Sq.; made vows that have been officiated by a metropolis councilor carrying a number of gold medals; listened to puffed up organ variations of Mozart’s overture to The Magic Flute, Tonight from West Facet Story, All You Want is Love by the Beatles, and Handel’s Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (we had to decide on 4 songs from a very random assortment!); signed some papers; and walked out of the constructing right into a crowd ready for the astronomical clock to do its hourly present.
Our buddies Klara and Aeon served as witnesses. Afterward we headed throughout the road to U Prince, a rooftop bar with the most effective view over the sq., and shared a bottle of Prosecco. Then we headed to Kantyna, our favourite restaurant, for carpaccio, tartare, steak, and beer. Then a cupcake place close by. Then Bugsy’s Bar for craft cocktails. And a return residence at an affordable hour!
All in all, an ideal day, and I’m so glad I acquired to have the easy courthouse wedding ceremony expertise. It actually pares it right down to what issues.
If you happen to’re planning an advanced wedding ceremony — a number of nationalities or places — I extremely advocate doing the authorized wedding ceremony by yourself forward of time! It’s such a reduction to know that the paperwork is DONE so we are able to concentrate on having a good time.
Micro-mooning in Karlovy Range. The day after the marriage, Charlie and I headed to Karlovy Range, a stunning spa city in West Bohemia, simply an hour and 45 minutes from Prague. What a improbable little place! I can’t imagine it took so lengthy for me to go to.
We stayed on the five-star Resort Olympik and loved a balcony with a view over city, in addition to a spa within the basement. A number of the highlights have been strolling across the city and sipping on spa waters from our particular cups, mountain climbing down from the hill above city and having fun with the views; spending a day on the heated outside pool at Resort Thermal; and consuming a lot of nice meals, particularly at Le Marché.
I couldn’t think about heading off on an enormous honeymoon instantly after a marriage. Most of my buddies have achieved low-key weekends away after their weddings, saving the honeymoon for a later date, and I can now verify that that’s a GREAT concept.
(As for the large honeymoon, what’s subsequent? In June, we’re going to the island of Ischia for a couple of days, and in November and December we’re going to Chile and Argentina for a MONTH!)
Visiting Karlštejn Fortress. This fortress is positioned simply outdoors Prague within the city of Karlštejn, and it’s one of the vital in style day journeys from Prague. You will get there by practice for those who’d like, although we ended up driving.
Price visiting? Positive. It was attention-grabbing to see. I actually loved the tour and among the uncommon architectural options of the fortress, like a cool wood-patterned room. Do I feel it’s the greatest day journey from Prague, although? No. That may be Kutná Hora, which I feel packs a a lot greater punch.
Having fun with the primary lovely day of the yr in Únětice. I point out Únětice on my listing of bizarre issues to do in Prague, and we went to the brewery to get pleasure from a Celtic pageant. It was completely GORGEOUS — and super-crowded. Everybody was having fun with the sunshine and a few beers!
Easter markets in Prague. Do you know that Prague has Easter markets? They’re fairly much like the Christmas markets (in reality…practically an identical, apart from swapping out the handicrafts), solely they’re within the spring months. Enjoyable instances.
Selecting my birthday journey. I haven’t gone on a visit for my final two birthdays, and actually wished to this yr. So Charlie and I are going to Montenegro and Croatia! We’ll be doing a couple of new issues — staying in Perast fairly than my typical Kotor, and visiting new locations, like Durmitor Nationwide Park in Montenegro and the Elafiti Islands in Croatia.
Challenges
Retaining the condo clear with three cats. Baliček, our buddies’ cat, spent many of the month with us, and he’s the sweetest, most loving cat, waking us up by purring on the high of his lungs.
Nevertheless, the dude is messy. When he’s at his home, he makes use of a coated litter field and flings the litter in one million instructions. However at our home, now we have open litter packing containers and if an open litter field is an choice, he’ll go there and fling litter all around the toilet!
You’d suppose the answer could be shopping for coated litter packing containers for all. NOPE. Murray is afraid of coated litter packing containers, and if he sees one, even when there’s an open litter field subsequent to it, he will get so scared, he goes into one other room and pees on the ground.
So this was a month of fixed sweeping and vacuuming and yelling, “Noooooo!” when Baliček turned the lavatory into the Sahara for the fifth time that day.
After which Baliček needed to go residence, and I cried. He and Murray actually acquired to be good buddies! (Lewis tolerated him.) However seeing him curled up in his two-year-old human sister’s arms was price it.
Making a rookie cheese mistake. This month our dishwasher and freezer have been on their final legs, so we determined to switch them each, in addition to the fridge. (In Prague, this isn’t one thing the owner covers — even whenever you hire, you pay to your personal massive home equipment.)
Properly, this occurred to coincide with French week at Lidl, with a lot of cool cheeses on the market. We purchased a couple of and launched them to the brand new fridge.
It’s been a couple of weeks and THE BRAND NEW FRIDGE STILL SMELLS LIKE STINKY FRENCH CHEESE. We messed that one up!!
Weblog Posts of the Month
21 Quirky and Uncommon Issues to Do in Prague — Wow, I lastly wrote a Prague put up! And it’s an AWESOME one! Listed here are some superior issues to do in Prague past seeing the fortress and the Charles Bridge. That is what my buddies and I do round Prague!
17 Finest Prague Eating places — One other long-overdue Prague put up! I wrote this so I can have one thing simple to ship to individuals who need to know the place they need to eat. Prague has a FANTASTIC eating scene and it’s best to go means past Czech meals right here.
29 Cool Issues to Do in Zagreb, Croatia — It was about time I lastly revealed a devoted Zagreb put up to complement all my Croatia content material! Zagreb is completely price visiting, even for those who’re solely in Croatia for the islands and seashores.
This Month on Patreon
On the Adventurous Kate Patreon, I publish unique content material and never-told tales you can entry for $6 per thirty days. We even have a non-public Fb group and members get free entry to the E-book Membership every month.
This month, I really wrote about one in all my non-travel hobbies — thrifting low cost designer garments on-line. I completely LOVE doing this, however the stakes are excessive when you possibly can’t strive objects on and you’ll’t return them. I used to make SO many errors, however now I’m good at it, so I made a decision to share my greatest ideas.
I share a ton of ideas for ensuring you’re shopping for a chunk you’ll really love carrying. (One underrated tip — DOUBLE CHECK THAT YOUR BLACK ITEM IS NOT ACTUALLY NAVY BLUE. This has occurred a number of instances. So many individuals can’t inform the distinction between navy blue and black!)
I additionally shared some extra wedding ceremony photographs within the Patreon on the day of the marriage — fast put up and go!
And at last, I shared a behind-the-scenes a few enterprise catastrophe that I went by means of as soon as, the way it exploded, and the way I acquired by means of it and acquired it collectively.
E-book Membership This Month
Our subsequent e book membership will happen on Sunday, June 4, at 1:00 PM Japanese Time. We will probably be studying Aftershocks by Nadia Owusu, an American writer of Armenian and Ghanaian heritage. This was one in all 2021’s buzziest memoirs, and made a number of the “better of the yr” lists.
You possibly can join the e book membership right here. Patreon members have entry within the Patreon.
“Younger Nadia Owusu adopted her father, a United Nations official, from Europe to Africa and again once more. Simply as she and her household settled into a brand new residence, her father would inform them it was time to say their good-byes. The instability wrought by Nadia’s nomadic childhood was deepened by household secrets and techniques and fractures, each lived and inherited.
Her Armenian American mom, who deserted Nadia when she was two, would periodically reappear, solely to fade once more. Her father, a Ghanaian, the good hero of her life, died when she was 13. After his passing, Nadia’s stepmother weighed her down with a revelation that was both a bombshell secret or a lie, rife with shaming innuendo.
With these and different ruptures, Nadia arrived in New York as a younger lady feeling stateless, motherless, and unsure about her future, but keen to search out her personal identification. What adopted, nevertheless, have been durations of despair during which she struggled to carry herself and her siblings collectively.
“An impressive, advanced evaluation of selfhood and why it issues” (Elle), Aftershocks depicts the best way she hauled herself from the wreckage of her life’s perpetual quaking, the means by which she has lastly come to grasp that the one floor agency sufficient to rely on is the one written into existence by her personal hand.”
Vogue Discover of the Month
Generally you discover a designer merchandise on the market that provides you good vibes — after which it arrives and suits like a DREAM. For me it was this Sandro jumpsuit. I fell in love with it the second I noticed it. I double-checked the lie-flat measurements, decided it could match, and ordered it.
Then it was delivered and I couldn’t imagine how PERFECTLY it match me!! Jumpsuits may be actually robust to get proper, however this was made for me. I didn’t even should hem the legs! (As a result of it’s technically a cropped jumpsuit and I’m 5’4″ so the legs have been regular for as soon as!)
And I’ve an event to put on it — for my bachelorette afternoon tea the day earlier than our Boston wedding ceremony.
I additionally discovered the BEST pants this month. Black satin cargo pants by Maje, in all probability my favourite model of the second. I did purchase these new, and so they have been expensive, however THEY FALL SO PERFECTLY AND BEAUTIFULLY. I really feel like a member of TLC in them!
I attempted these on on the Maje retailer in Prague, on a whim — then promptly tried on ten pairs of cheaper black satin cargo pants from different shops simply to see if I may love them for much less. And all the low cost ones have been horrible by comparability. Oh properly. I ordered the great ones through the Farfetch app and acquired 10% off.
I acquired them hemmed on the tailor, and I plan to put on them a LOT this summer time.
What I Watched This Month
Yellowjackets is again! Yellowjackets might be my favourite present of the previous couple of years — a drama a few ladies’ highschool soccer crew that crashed within the Canadian Rockies and have been stranded there for years. There have been all the time rumors that they resorted to cannibalism, which they denied, however what REALLY occurred on the market?
I gained’t spoil something, however I’ll say that season two has DELIVERED SATISFYINGLY, and that’s earlier than what individuals are calling the most effective episode of the season airs this Friday.
I additionally watched Daisy Jones & the Six, a miniseries that I very a lot loved. I had learn the e book beforehand. I cherished the aesthetics and a number of the music was so significantly better than it needed to be! Whereas I feel it may have been stretched out into extra episodes, and there have been a couple of too many cliches for my style, it was a enjoyable watch.
Beneath Deck replace: Charlie and I’ve now completed Beneath Deck Med seasions 3-5, Beneath Deck seasons 8-9, Beneath Deck Crusing Yacht season 1, and are midway by means of the one season of Beneath Deck Down Beneath.
Our takeaways from Crusing Yacht Season One: Captain Glenn is cool! Crusing appears like the alternative of luxurious! These get together dudes from Lengthy Island have been the worst company of all time! And the Jenna-Adam romance is probably one of many worst on-show romances ever between two horrible individuals!
Our takeaways from Beneath Deck Down Beneath Season One: Aesha is the most effective! Forking the anchor is insane! Chef Ryan is the worst human they’ve ever had on this present! Culver the mulleted leisure officer is hilarious! Captain Jason is cool!
What I Learn This Month
The Latecomer by Jean Hanff Korelitz (2022) — This novel tells the story of the sad Oppenheimer household. After years of fertility issues, mother and father Johannah and Sallo welcome triplets in 1982 — three of the primary check tube infants. However the triplets despise one another from delivery, nothing just like the comfortable household Johannah had envisioned, and as they’re about to enter faculty, she decides to deliver their closing frozen embryo to delivery. This latecomer throws their lives into additional chaos.
My sister beneficial this e book to me, and I’m so glad she did — it’s in all probability my favourite e book of the yr to date. This can be a lengthy, in-depth examine of a household, and all of the crises, main and minor, that befall them. And the miracle is that not one of the characters are likable — critically, none of them — however I wished to spend a lot extra time with them, studying about what led them to be the best way they have been. Actually, this e book may have been twice as lengthy!
I extremely advocate getting this as an audiobook if doable — the e book is narrated by award-winning voice actor Julia Whelan, and her efforts make it such a pleasure to hearken to. I walked a LOT whereas listening to this.
I’m shifting on to extra of Jean Hanff Korelitz’s work now, beginning with The Plot.
Coming Up in Might 2023
It’s the BIG Prague wedding ceremony month! Our Prague wedding ceremony is happening on the finish of the month, and individuals are flying in from around the globe. We’re having about 100 company complete.
(Sure, for those who observe different journey bloggers who hold mentioning they’ve an upcoming journey to Prague for a marriage — it’s mine. Hehehe. We’ve acquired a number of journey blogger buddies coming, and I recognize their discretion.)
Since lots of people are coming from so distant, we’re including in a number of actions and occasions, making it right into a three-day extravaganza. Past that, we need to present our family members the most effective of Prague in late spring, its greatest time of yr.
That’s the one and solely factor happening in Might! Can’t wait to rejoice with tons of family and friends.
What are your plans for Might 2023? Share away!
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