Adventures in the Czech Republic

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

I always spend March in England, for a number of reasons including being with my mother on Mothering Sunday. For this reason I have never...

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...

Winter will soon be upon us. Already the first sharp frosts have turned the grass in the orchard white. The Czech winter can be long and wh...

One of the advantages of the snow and the Czech winter is that you can actually see all those small birds you could only hear during the oth...

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 ...

I've been spending my last few days ensuring we are ready for the Czech winter. It gave the north of the country quite a shock in Octobe...

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 ...

I have blogged about the wonders of the Czech swimming ponds in the past – these man-made ponds where the villagers spend the hot summer day...

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...

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...

Towards the end of my first stay in our Czech home the weather changed dramatically. The temperatures rose and the packed snow, which had he...

On my first morning in the house I put my nose out from under the two duvets on my bed. The woodstove had long since gone out and I discover...

On the first day in the house I was delivered by my friend together with a few bags of basic belongings. Most of these were her hand-me-down...

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 ...

The other night I was walking down the street and was struck by the scent of woodsmoke on the frosted air. It doesn’t matter where in the wo...

I adore the Czechs' bright winter sunshine – this time of year the light can be quite golden, playing off the grass deadened and yellowe...

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...

Well, it has arrived - Winter and with it heavy snow. They are saying such a large amount of snow so early hasn't happened in living m...