Adventures in the Czech Republic

Before we had even bought our Czech home, we attended a performance of the Passion Play at the small town of Horice Na Sumave. This yea...

As you walk up Resslova from Karlovo Namesti in Prague you pass on your left the Orthodox church of St Cyril and Methodius. Over a seale...

It is almost two years now since the death of my friend, Hannah Kodicek. As regular readers of this blog will know Hannah was the reason I f...

Cesky Krumlov is a favourite film location. We regularly have to skirt around film crews as we go about our daily life.  Unlike the H...

As a follow-up to my previous post about recycling beer bottles in the Czech Republic, I thought I might share with you a video clip from on...

I have featured the work of Czech animators - Jiri Trnka and Jan Svankmajer - in previous posts. I am, as my regular readers already know,...

In my previous post I talked about Jiri Trnka's wonderful book illustrations, but he is probably (rightly) better known as a maker of st...

Last night I watched the wonderful Czech film Closely Observed Trains - a film adaptation of the Hrabal novel . I have quite a collection o...

Our son is at Westminster University studying film production. He is a very talented scriptwriter and has just emailed us to say that he has...