Adventures in the Czech Republic

I was walking down a street in Ceske Budejovice, when I passed this notice. A few yards on I stopped and looked back, unable to believe what...

Many people will know the English writer Edith Pargeter by her pseudonym Ellis Peters, under which she wrote the very successful Brother Cad...

The Czechs have a strong cafe culture, a legacy of their time under the rule of Vienna. In summer you sit outside under awnings watching the...

I have always been fascinated by maps and so I recently enjoyed an exhibition of historic maps of the Sumava (which included my own village)...

I have blogged about the Czech chata or hutkins in the past. Many are set in the countryside, in woodland clearings and beside lakes and st...

I love this time of year in the Czech Republic. It is the time before the Winter snows bring their own bright light to the land, when the l...

Readers of the Krumlov Expats blog will have already read a post about the hunt posted by Salamander. Unlike Salamander who was one of the ...