Adventures in the Czech Republic

A friend and I were laughing recently about our mutual friend, Hannah, who always denied that wolves could be in the Czech Republic. ...

One of the problems with leaving my Czech house empty for months at a time is there are sometimes some nasty surprises when I get back. O...

Redstart on the fence next to the strimmer I spent the afternoon strimming the jungle that has grown in the yard. As I did so, I ...

Yesterday we woke to bright sunshine, sparkling snow and frost flowers on the exterior window pane. This is the type of winter weather th...

Okay, so I often blog about my walk home up the hill from Horice na Sumave, but there is always something new and lovely to see. And I just...

As the blog gets larger I thought I might help readers interested in certain topics by creating some pages which list the blog's conten...

Czech winter means snow and frost. And one of the most wonderful of its shows is when a freezing fog settles on our little valley and turns ...

As the blog gets larger I thought I might help readers interested in certain topics by creating some pages which list the blog's content...

Just look at the size of this wood ants nest - my friend is nearly hidden by it! I gather that these large ones can contain as many as 300,0...

I mentioned that I have been wandering round our local woods at dawn. Well mushrooms aren't the only reason for going. I love the misty ...

It is strange to come back to the Czech republic after a few weeks away in the UK. Everything has grown, the grass I so carefully scythed ...

In my last post I told of my discovering (and eating) wild strawberries on a walk in the woods. Well, they were not the only thing that caug...

Back in May I visited a local nature reserve and blogged about the wildflowers there. I promised at the time to return later in the summer a...

I had been meaning to visit the Vysenske ( Vyšenské) Kopce Nature Reserve, to be found just to the north of Cesky Krumlov below the Klet Mo...