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 ...

  Yesterday I went for a walk in the Sumava Forest. It was a delightful day - pleasantly warm and the forest had that lovely smell of res...

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...

The stand-off between environmental protesters and the Sumava Park Authority and its loggers continues. The protesters have been chaining 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. ...

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

I am spending a lot of my leisure time up in the forest at the moment. There are still mushrooms for the collecting. My love of mushrooming...

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...