Adventures in the Czech Republic

One of the problems with leaving my Czech house empty for months at a time is there are sometimes some nasty surprises when I get back. O...

Okay, I know it's a rubbish photo, but given how secretive the fire salamander is I was delighted to see it and manage to fire off...

I walked around the World on Thursday and it only took me three-and-a-half hours (it would have taken three but I stopped in a pub for a dri...

As you may have read in a previous post I do have problems with mice (mys) in the house at this time of year. With fields and orchards behin...

I have often talked in this blog about my encounters with Czech wildlife, but it is only when one sees the many tracks in the snow that one ...

As I mentioned in my fox post a few weeks ago I recently enjoyed a visit to the Zoo Ohrada at Hluboka Nad Vltavou. The Zoo is one of the old...

On Saturday I took a taxi home, as driving having drunk alcohol of any quantity is forbidden in the Czech Republic. On the road we came acro...

The other evening my sisters and I were barbequing some sausages over an open fire in the warm May evening air, when we realised we were bei...