Back to Basics

Much of our new life here in Prague has been about getting back to basics. Perhaps it is the antiquity surrounding us that helps us not miss some of the modern conveniences we had become so accustomed to. Or perhaps challenging ourselves and our comforts to take on this challenge has opened our eyes to the core simple pleasures of our life. Whatever the reasons we have happily begun a new stage of our life here without a clothes dryer, microwave oven, television or cars. We hang clothes out to dry, we reheat food on the stove, we read and listen to music much more and we walk or take public transportation everywhere. There's certainly nothing special about any of those things yet it is a large change from the way we lived our life before; a change we have both easily fallen into.