October 2022
What can you learn about a town in an hour of being there? Well, for example, that it's an unbelievable shithole
I ended up here in transit, there's a train transfer here to Mikulov, which was the original goal of the trip
First thing a traveler will see (nothing)
Park's being fixed
Second thing a traveler will see (dirty panel buildings)
Main shopping center with a clever logo (they love these here: same Mikulov says about itself that it's "miCOOLov", no joke)
The only good thing in town
There are bikes, no cyclists were spotted
Everything became clear roughly at this moment: life here stopped in 1994, I remember it well
2 PM, traffic jams and noise on the street (there are no other streets)
Center
River (reminds me of Podebrady)
Buses are mainly regional, not city ones
I was hasty with 1994, there's an accordion players' meeting happening here (the third one, please note)
Peculiarity of entrances in the center
The point about the town is made by understanding what services are popular among locals.
Let's play Sherlock: what segment of the population needs phone unlocking services?
I was in town for about half an hour, but didn't want more
I returned to town in the evening when we were coming back. The train was late, so we were lucky to be delayed for an hour, not 30 minutes
Wasn't planning to go into town again, but at the station a bum approached us with the classic Czech "mate drobne?". Well actually not like that. First he asked "Mluvite aspon trochu cesky?". I nodded, because this fucker didn't deserve a verbal answer. Then nodded a couple more times without words, the bum got offended and left.
A minute later 2 gypsy girls were kicking their (or not their?) phone around the station with their feet. It was time to look at evening Breclav (Breclav - it's she, remember as "Breclav")
In 9 years in Czechia I already forgot when I felt scared in a town
Bums, hobos, drunks and gypsies at every step. I honestly haven't been this happy to see Vietnamese in a long time - they looked maximally safe compared to all the other surrealism
Breclav is a great town for transfers, staying there longer than 30 minutes would be stupid ("yeah, yeah" will say those who visit this article in 10 years when houses here too will cost some fuckillion)
PS From interesting stuff: this is the first Czech town on the way from Austria and Slovakia. When we got on the train, 20 cops got on with us, apparently checking migrants. Autumn 2022 at borders is especially interesting. What they were checking - I have no idea, they just walked through the train. Apparently looking for groups of Syrians or something like that, seemed like they didn't give a shit about Ukrainians and all other white people
PPS the train was terribly overcrowded, people were standing just everywhere. I had a seat reservation, so I had to kick off some chick. The chick was unhappy. I helped her take down a bag from above, she became even more unhappy and demonstratively climbed on the table to get everything else. For a second I felt like an oppressor, but then I remembered I'm not the crazy one here, and calmed down