There have never been any lions here

I am a Czech citizen and since we have been celebrating the 20 anniversary of the Velvet Revolution, I would like to share some experience with you.

First of all, I am really glad that the initial period is eventually over. Still, let me start with this since - as time passes - some of the stories are funny.

Yes, we did know what TV is.

Yes, we used toilets. (You don´t go to the cactuses any longer???- Well, this question was really great considering the location of our country on the globe, but the person asking was from Arizona...).

And, yes, Charles University is MUCH older than Harward. (Yes, it is a university - we know what that means).



I loved this sentence: Prague is a great city. You have McDonald´s.

Honestly, I didn´t want to know whether the two sentences were meant to be connected with "because, and, moreover or even if". Personally, I can easily exist without MD. I have been there once, and as a classic puts it: Never more!

But I understand that lots of people like it. OK. No problem.

To sum up, at that time my country was well-known because of the "revolution" that in fact wasnt´t any revolution at all, which demonstrates one feature of our national character (if there is anything like that). And the whole world knew Vaclav Havel, the great little man, who has done more for this country than anyone else in the past few decades.
However, lots of foreigners thought that the country needed "civilizing", because anything that exists OUT THERE can be labeled by "Hic sunt leones."