Adventures in the Czech Republic

I returned from an English Christmas in time for a Czech Epiphany, from a country suffering from prolonged rain and horrendous floods (al...

Winter has well and truly arrived here. The snow is several inches thick and last night ice flowers formed on my bedroom window. The sky ...

This is what I woke to yesterday. This is the view from my window. It had started snowing again late on Friday afternoon and continued to l...

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 ...

I keep writing about diamonds in the snow in the Czech Republic and my British friends and family nod and say "Yes, how lovely". B...

All this talk about the wonder and beauty of snow is all very well (see my previous post) but there are downsides. The first of these is the...

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 ...

The thaw had the effect of melting the top layer of compacted snow on the roads leading to our village which then rucked up into tracks, bel...

I was enjoying a cup of tea with my friend Salamander on Tuesday when there was a thump as a large lump of snow slid off her roof and fell ...

At the moment the British media are full of stories about the disruption caused by the exceptional snowfalls that have beset the UK over the...

Yesterday I went for a walk with my friend Salamander . We took the path up to the woods above my house, the weather was perfect – sun, snow...

Over the last week the area around our home has been transformed. We have had snow followed by a cold several degrees below freezing. As a c...

Yesterday we walked to Horice Na Sumave to catch the bus into Cesky Krumlov. Although there was snow on the ground the sun was bright and wa...

It is nearly Easter and it is snowing. Over the last few days the snow has fallen at night only to melt during the day, but yesterday the s...

My plans for staying in the house were delayed by the exploding pipe in the bathroom. It was obvious that the house was only just beginning ...

As I said in my last post Czech winters have a special place in my heart. One reason for this is the fact that the first time I ever stayed ...

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...

I return to the Czech Republic tomorrow and my friend emailed me on Friday to warn me that the weather was changing there. The snow was melt...