Adventures in the Czech Republic

Yesterday I visited the lovely Renaissance chateau of Kratochvile between Prachatice and Ceske Budejovice. It was quite unlike anything I ha...

Just look at the size of this wood ants nest - my friend is nearly hidden by it! I gather that these large ones can contain as many as 300,0...

Forestry is a major industry in the Czech Republic and timber a major export. If you are sitting on a train waiting, the chances are you are...

In my previous post I talked about Jiri Trnka's wonderful book illustrations, but he is probably (rightly) better known as a maker of st...

I recently bought an old book from a second-hand bookshop called Legends of Old Bohemia . It was published by Paul Hamlyn in the UK and by A...

I was very amused this summer to see on the BBC's coverage one of the RHS garden shows (Chelsea or Hampton Court) an enthusiastic prese...

Just over a year ago I blogged about my meetings with Czech foxes I wrote then of how they are meant to be lucky. My meetings with our loc...