Adventures in the Czech Republic

During the communist era it was not possible for Czechs to travel abroad easily and so many Czechs had second homes in the country. My Czech...

In my last post I talked about the Czechs as a nation of hunters and in previous posts I have talked about the Czech obsession with gatherin...

When we moved into our house we found two boar skins lying in the straw in the barn, in the house the walls of the stairwell were decorated ...

The Czechs are very fond of their dogs. The above photo shows a typical Czech dog - in other words low slung with short legs, curled tail a...

Horice Na Sumave is famous for its passion play. The play is performed each summer outdoors in a theatre created in a natural arena just abo...

A friend of ours, who works on the North Sea oil rigs, has just bought a forester's cottage in the woods. The house is sited right next...

As you may recall in an earlier post as part of my decorations for our Czech house I brought over some seashells collected on a beach in Ken...