I Pity The Foolish King Arthur

We spent the New Year's Eve in scary cottage near the Austrian border and we visited a bizarre complex called Excalibur City.

Excalibur City is located exactly at the border of Austria and Czech Republic, the reason probably being that you can pay smaller taxes here, no duties or whatever.



It looks like some demented hellish post-apocalyptic nighmarish version of Disneyland / U.S. mega mall. See my photos and more photos on their homepage.



It's evident that whoever built this monstrosity had lots of money but zero taste. There is an airplane restaurant (boasting that Niki Lauda once visited it), imitation of Planet Hollywood globe (without any Planet Hollywood type restaurant nearby), medieval restaurant, lots of super discount shops and an Asian marketplace with Asian-styled wall around it. 10% of the shops are Duty Free type shops (as seen on airports), the remaining 90% are selling unbelievable crap (mostly Vietnamese knockoffs of Chinese knockoffs). There are also some "entertainment options" for kids and adults alike, most of which look very scary or don't work at all.

Amazing.

Remembering The Tradition

In less than two weeks, I am flying to Tokyo again. So it's necessary for me to remember katakana and restaurant manners:



This will be my third visit to Tokyo. The first two visits were with Karolina and this one... will also be with Karolina.

This certainly doesn't mean what you might think. She's not returning to me and leaving her current love of her life (aka "the guy who sleeps with her now"). This is just something we agreed upon more than 6 months ago: "Whatever happens, we will always have Tokyo"...

UPDATE: With his comment "Stop being silly, move on", Thomas demostrated that he doesn't get it. I am moving on. I am seeing other girls (you just cannot expect me to write about most of them here, sorry!). I just currently don't know any other girl, who a) would like to spend 10 days with me, b) has money to pay for substantial part of her trip (yes, Karolina is paying most of her expenses), c) I would feel comfortable being with her for 10 days. Plus, I made this agreement with Karolina at the time we already knew it might be over. I don't expect this trip will bring Karolina back to me. I don't even expect we will have sex and yet I look forward to all of it. By the way, the situation with our flats will be solved before we leave so I can buy weird Japanese stuff (life-sized hentai dolls etc.) with full knowledge that I have some real estate space to put in in.

UPDATE 2: Thanks for the tip in the comments! If anyone knows about other interesting going-ons in Tokyo between April 10 and 20, let me know.