Here’s a classic communist block of flats — the place where I grew up.
Where I learned to ride a bike… where I first ice-skated… where I spent whole summers inline skating up and down this side streets.
It’s a quiet urban street in Karviná, in the northeast of the Czech Republic — the place I called home for 24 years.
Back then it was dark, cold, and honestly… pretty miserable in winter.
That was 25 years ago.
Since then, the whole area went through a massive reconstruction.
And now?
It’s beautiful.
It actually makes me want to come back.