Buses on Sunday are obviously twice as funny as buses on Monday to Saturday.
I went for a short walk in the city, just to have a look around, see some shops etc. On my way back, I waited for ca 20 min, on a totally deserted station near very ugly train station, and during this time (at least according to the timetable), ca 5 buses in my direction were supposed to come. Guess what: there were zero buses in my direction, but there were 5 buses in other direction, which were not supposed to come at all. Then, a final bad thing happened: when one bus in my direction appeared (at last!), and I wanted to show my interest in actually taking the bus by extending hand (exactly as everyone does, and as it is supposed to be done), the bus just ignored me, and did not stop! O_o
I was cold and hungry, and this did not make me a big friend of First bus...
But enough complaints.
The milk has 'wrong colours' here. In the Czech Republic, the milk bottles and boxes are like this:
red: full fat (3.5%)
green: skimmed (~ 0.5%; rare these days)
blue: semi-skimmed (~ 1.5%)
Here in the UK, it's like this:
red: skimmed
green: semi-skimmed
blue: full fat
orange: appears to be more than green but less than blue
Similarly, the still water and the sparkling water seem to be wrongly coloured (but I don't buy these, so I do not care very much).
And the the trash bins also have wrong colours. In the Czech Republic, it's like this:
yellow: plastic
green, white: glass (coloured, white)
blue: paper
black with orange lid: tetrapak
grey/silver: cans (metal)
brown: plant/veg stuff
black: all the rest
Here, they have far less bins than us. They also have black for 'nothing of the above', and it seems that blue is for paper (but I have never seen a blue bin, my landlady claims that this one's been stolen from her). Apart from this: brown is for all packaging (cans, plastic, glass), and there's obviously nothing for tetrapak (which is hardly ever sold here, they sell orange juice in plastic containers similar to the milk containers, would you believe it...) and plant/veg stuff (but maybe they do not need it, with their fancy houses and gardens, which can for sure accommodate a nice compost?).
I add this colour confusion to the list of confusing things, just after 'everything on the streets is on the wrong side, all the time, and all cars are driving in the wrong direction, and the buses stop on wrong side of the street, etc. etc.'
It is obviously nearly impossible to buy decent green tea here. In the shops, in the section marked 'tea', you have approx. one million kinds and brands of black tea, from English Breakfast Super Strong to a no-name box which contains 1000 teabags and costs ca £1.30. But green tea? If any at all, you have a choice between exactly one brand. Which of course only makes lemon flavour green tea - very artificial (IG Farben) lemon flavour, to be precise. O_o
There are cats in the neighborhood. Just today, I opened the front door, and there it was, sitting on the brown bin, a big brown cat. Peering at me, obviously wondering who the hell I was, and then even meowing at me (in a way, 'hooman where is my milk, gimme now'). I must ask the landlady whether I was supposed to feed some cats or what, because the cat was there already yesterday, and it's all funny.
Yesterday, I have also seen a black-and-white cat with a moustache! The cat looked exactly as the internet-wide famous cats that look like Hitler.
And btw, I hate changes of time. From now on, we no longer have BST, now we have GMT here. Well, while I am not an anti-EU person, I would love to abolish this one stupid EU-thing. Down with changes of time!
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