January 2022
Slavkov u Brna is located, actually, near Brno, from which goes a train about half an hour
Vibe of small Czech towns is felt from the first minutes
In 2022 such boxes for parcels are not the rule, but in the last couple months I noticed very many of them. Descendants in a couple years will tell whether it caught on.
Realities of life 30 minutes from the "city"
But let the reader have no unnecessary doubts - just like that to Slavkov u Brna I wouldn't go
Because here there's a bridge that clearly leads somewhere
Here you can't stick announcements on the black one
And the vibe here is like in the real Podebrady
It's very clean here
It's very village here
But in some sense not Slavkov should be near Brno, but Brno near Slavkov
Because, thank G-d
Though there's nothing to look at here
(if you look forward)
Because everything's closed due to the terrible weather you see in the photo
So, a Russian person should come to Slavkov u Brna (and I was clearly the only tourist in the whole town)
And look exclusively up
At the sky of Slavkov u Brna
Because above him there was nothing now but the sky, the high sky, not clear, but still immeasurably high, with gray clouds quietly creeping across it
How quiet, calm and solemn, completely different from how I was running
Completely different from how with embittered and frightened faces the Frenchman and artillerist were dragging the swab from each other
How is it I didn't see this high sky before? And how happy I am that I finally learned of it. Yes! Everything is empty, everything is deception, except this infinite sky
Nothing, nothing exists except it. But even that doesn't exist, there's nothing except silence, tranquility
Because in Russian Slavkov u Brna is called "Austerlitz"
