What's in a Prague street name

Hey. You may have come over here from my Twitter account, in which case you can feel free to skip this part (let’s be fair, you’re free to skip if no matter where you’ve come from).

My name’s Ed, I’m British, I’m 40 at the time of writing if not necessarily at the time you’re reading this, and I’m lucky enough to call Prague home. For several years now and hopefully also for all the years to come.

In April of this year, I got the idea of researching all the streets in my immediate vicinity (Žižkov in Prague 3), finding out how they got their names, and then writing about them on my Twitter (https://twitter.com/ed__ley), one street a day. What started out as an OCD-fuelled experiment (‘What’s in a Prague 3 street name’) turned into something that was just too interesting to stop, and about 6.3 months later, I’d got through the entire district. And people started taking an interest, especially towards the end.

Season 2, AKA ‘What’s in a Prague 2 street name’, started just under two weeks ago, and people seem to be enjoying it. It’s connecting to me to interesting people in a way which I never knew was possible. So of course this would be the moment at which Twitter would decide to possibly go to sh*t (side note: there are too many people who get a kick out of the idea of being part of the Apocalypse, aren’t there).

I don’t know what the heck is going to happen with Twitter, although I do know that I’m not fully sold on Mastodon yet, let alone anything else – so the obvious, constructive thing to do is to take my posts about the streets of Prague, past, present and future, and make them into a website. Because I love writing about these streets too much to stop just yet.

Watch this space.