A little story from Prague
At the start of a long weekend in Prague, Vee and I did what we always do which is walk and walk around this beautiful city. The snowfall of the last few days is melting and the Christmas tree in the Old Town Square was being taken down, but we are here for friends not the festivities.
Now, back at home, we have some delightful Christmas tree decorations which we bought in Prague years ago and we have some friends who said that they would love to have something similiar. Today we came across a shop selling such baubles and purchased a set.
In Britain these days, we have lots of workers from Central & Eastern Europe, especially Poland and the Baltic States. But, here in Prague, such workers are generally from even poorer countries even further east.
So the shop manager was from Bosnia-Herzegovina and her colleague was from from Azerbaijan but spoke Turkish as well. I managed to say ‘good morning’ and ‘thank you’ to the manager in Serbo-Croat and to other guy in Turkish as well as muttering a bit of Czech – so they gave us a discount!