In the interest of this blog not being all-Scroop-all-the-time, here’s one of my favourite random things about the Czech Republic: all the pretty pastel building!
Everywhere we went the buildings were painted to the most delicious colours.
From big apartment buildings in cities:
To whole town squares of delicious ice-cream hues.
I also really like the way each building just built its own roof and paid no attention to the one next door!
To modern apartment buildings:
And every single one of them delighted me!
(although I am disappointed that Banána isn’t a yellow building!)
These were taken in Valašské Meziříčí, Tišnov, Olomouc, and a couple other places (including from a train!).
And finally, because someone once told me VERY firmly that travel pictures should never just be things-that-aren’t-you, here’s a photo of me in one of the narrowest alleys in the Czech Republic. I saw a narrower one in Sweden, but I would have been too scared to go down it!
I’m terrible at taking photos of things that are me, myself. This made for a bit of a fun recognition game for me!
… U Banána, by the way, is “At the Banana”, and the banana might possibly be alive, purely based on the grammar. (A more likely explanation is simply colloquial declination along un-literary lines; but the above thought was too funny not to include. )
What pretty colors! My favorite is Orange Creamsicle, which I find surprisingly pleasing for a building exterior. I also appreciate the mastery of pink here. Pink is so pretty, but I find unbroken expanses of a single shade, somehow, bilious. It’s the Pepto Bismol connection, perhaps. But these pinks are beautifully broken by different shades of pink, or different colors altogether, and the result makes me happy!
As a Czech living in this landscape, they make me happy, too. 😉 I really like our habit of using more than one colour on structured historical buildings. Similar to how much I loved the Baltic countries applying that principle to panel doors.
So pretty! I love all the different rooflines.
I agree with the above comment regarding pink buildings. There is an old store building painted pink in my small town, but they definitely chose the wrong shade, unlike these lovely ones.
*nods with great sagacity*
Pink is a Responsibility.
Bless you! Keep posting please.