Adventures in the Czech Republic

I have been listening to a delightful radio programme on the BBC called Susurrations of Trees  - susurration is the English word for ...

I have been meaning to blog about walking the oldest nature trail in the Czech Republic for some time now. I actually walked the tr...

My Czech house is only a few miles from where the Iron Curtain used to be. After the collapse of communism the Czechs tore down thi...

One of the things I miss in the Czech Republic is the British habit of placing laybys at viewpoints. There are many places where I would lov...

The day after I drove back to the Czech Republic from England I did what I always do on my return and went for a walk in the forest above th...

Regular readers of this blog will know my views about the danger of the Sumava National Park's response to the problem of bark beetles. ...

This is a picture of my Czech home. It huddles under a hill called Liska Dira (Fox Hole) and is well-named given the number of foxes I hear ...

Radio Prague has just reported: Sumava National Park director resigns The director of the Sumava National Park, Frantisek Krejci, h...

Forestry is a major industry in the Czech Republic and timber a major export. If you are sitting on a train waiting, the chances are you are...

I was very amused this summer to see on the BBC's coverage one of the RHS garden shows (Chelsea or Hampton Court) an enthusiastic prese...

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...

As I think I said a while back my husband and I have had fun behaving like tourists. As any one who, like us, is doing up a house will tell ...

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 I was driving our Czech visitors to Tesco's I asked them what they thought of the Cotswolds. The response surprised me - the landscap...

That summer we looked at quite a number of chata (forest huts) which were on estate agents books. Most were pretty basic and in need of work...

On Sunday I decided to walk the Aldebert Stifter trail around the hills that circle Horni Plana. I had been meaning to do it for years, and ...

A few days ago my friend and I spent a pleasant evening consuming a bottle of medovina. Medovina is honey wine - med being the Czech word fo...

When I woke up the fog had cleared from the village, though it lay like a cotton duvet in the folds of the hills. It was cold and frosty, bu...

Some of my English friends do not see how I could possibly buy a house in a country, which has no seaside, surely they say it would be bette...

On a couple of occasions recently we have gone to Lake Lipno to eat at the restaurants along the shore and look out across the lake as the s...