Adventures in the Czech Republic

As you will know from previous posts the Czech Republic has always been inspirational in my writing. My latest project (although it is a pro...

I am embarrassed to say that until this year I had never visited Galerie Hollar in Prague and yet it is so up my street. As regular r...

As a former arts manager I have always got a buzz with helping my creative friends, especially if I can do so by introducing them to each...

I have just finished reading The Other City by Michal Ajvaz. In this strange and lovely hymn to Prague, Michal Ajvaz repopulates th...

As a visitor to Prague you probably won't need to use many buses, as they mostly operate in the outskirts of the city. But if you do,...

 Prague's Obecni Dum (Municipal House) is often overlooked by visitors planning their stay. I have to confess that the same ...

This week a number of ceremonies are taking place to celebrate the contribution of the 2500 Czechs who flew with the RAF against the Nazi...

I was talking to a British tourist the other day, who told me how the family of a friend of hers had been unlucky enough to have experienced...

  Ales print of Rabbi Loew Previously I talked in general about golems. In this post I want to tell you the legend of the Golem of Prag...

This post is a contribution towards the Magic Realism Bloghop 2015 I am organizing on Magic Realism Book Blog . About twenty blogs ar...

As I said in a previous post trams are my preferred form of public transport in Prague. The metro is very limited and doesn't have ...

Prague has three metro lines - A (green), B (yellow) and C (red). The lines cross at only three stations ( Můstek , Muzeum and Florenc), ...

I've been asked to write some posts about practical issues, such as how do I get around, when the only car I can use at the moment i...

Two weeks ago I met with Petr Husek, the organizer of the Festival which will commemorate the 600th anniversary of Jan Hus' death in Ju...

When I was young there was quite a fad about the graphics of Alfons Mucha. It was the 1970s and his posters were blu-tacked to the bed...

Unlike the rest of Prague's Jewish quarter number 1 Hastalska survived the demolition and the redevelopment of the 19th century. ...

I always have a wry smile to myself when I walk past Hotel Metamorphosis on my way through Prague's Old Town.  Why? I have this i...

Everywhere I look in Prague I see cutesy golems – on mugs, tea-towels, cards. It's as if the golem has been adopted as the mascot for...

I am planning a new novel, set in Prague, and drawing on my experience as an ex-pat. It will be a psychological paranormal mystery, so t...

Alchemy (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) I have just discovered that Prague has not one but two museums of alchemy. There used to be an al...