Adventures in the Czech Republic

If you walk down the Siroka - the market street in Cesky Krumlov in which you will find the Egon Schiele Art Centrum - you will see the Alch...

Those of you who have read my other posts will know my love of Cesky Krumlov. It is a wonderful Czech town in South Bohemia. As you arrive f...

I wasn't looking to buy a house. I was looking for a cottage or hut in the woods - a chata as the Czechs call them. I wasn't plannin...

I am back in England now. It is all very strange to leave our house in Czecho, to come home from home. It was almost as though the weather k...

We heard a few days ago that the airport at Ceske Budejovice has got the go-ahead to become a full-blown international airport. This is grea...

In my previous post I talked briefly about the maypoles that are the centre feature of many village greens in this part of the world. It doe...

A couple of days ago we were sat on the terrace outside our house drinking tea in the warm Czech sunshine. A breeze came up and suddenly the...