Adventures in the Czech Republic

I was disappointed to see, when I made my visit to the forest above our village, that there has been a lot of tree felling. Swathes of fores...

The Schwarzenberg Timber Canal is a source of some pride to the Czechs. They talk about the engineering prowess of its creator Josef Rosena...

As you will have gathered from my earlier posts I have caught the Czech mushroom collecting bug. Although you can find early boletus in the ...

One of the things that strikes me here in South Bohemia is how differently one feels about going abroad. Here it is about 30 minutes' dr...

In my last post I talked about the Czechs as a nation of hunters and in previous posts I have talked about the Czech obsession with gatherin...