| At home we’re one happy family. There’s always visitors, friends, dinner parties, culture. That’s probably the main thing. Mum works as a landscape gardener and has her own little company. Dad is a university lecturer in philosophy. He’s also Dutch, which is kind of important - we tend to move between Prague and Utrecht. I’ve got friends everywhere. I’ve got a bike in Utrecht and I really miss it when I can’t travel everywhere here by bike.
I’ve got an older brother. We see eye to eye on some things, but he’s quite a bit older than me, so sometimes it's difficult. The most difficult thing is we’re both kind of unassertive types. Except that he’s gay and I’m not (at least I don’t think so). Though sometimes people get the impression I am. Two years ago we finally moved from a small apartment to a house. We’re up to our eyes in debt and my parents have a mortgage to pay off. So things aren’t so cool on the money front, which is why I’m especially pissed off when people around think that I must be loaded just cos my old man’s from the West. Pretty stupid really, given that he teaches at a Czech university!
So, this is how my father remembers coming to Czechoslovakia. | 
