End of Summer

I know I haven't posted in awhile, mainly because I had myself a big ID reunion in Spain a couple weeks ago that I wanted to discuss, but I'm waiting on my friends to post all of their pictures to link them all in my post before I go into it. Hopefully I can write it up in the near future, even though at this point it's already been a couple of weeks since I came back.

In the meantime I guess I can discuss the winding down of Summer, and Fall lifestyle that seems to have quickly taken over. Since the beginning of September that Summer weather of 26-32 degrees Celsius has disappeared seemingly overnight and given way to 8-16 degrees cloudy weather. Frankly with how heavy Czech cuisine is (no Summer friendly fruit or smoothie dishes), and the nature of most of my clothes brought for the purpose of dealing with the cold, the temperature drop has been a welcome change.

Antonio climbing one of said new "modern/" ugly sculptures in the city

With Fall also comes a push to complete the construction projects around the city before the university students return, and the season opening for the local classical theater companies (drama, ballet, opera.) The city has nearly completed the construction around the construction that had diverted a lot of the tram lines around the city earlier this year, and has dotted the city with new sculptures (much of which I consider crap, but eye of the beholder right?)




My first excursion with the Brno trainees to the local ballet company was quite the revelation. The theater is quite stunning, and a student ticket at a measly 55CZK works out to less than 3 dollars for a 2 hour performance! In the US for the same thing I could expect to have spent at least 10 times that.



Pictures of the theater

Theatre

Synopsis of the ballet I saw can be found here:
http://www.youri-vamos.com/coppelia_en.php