Adventures in the Czech Republic

The Jan Zizka Birthplace Museum at Trocnov is a very Czech affair. The Hussite leader Jan Zizka was quite simply a military genius. W...

I thought I might share with you more  about what was discussed at the Lost in Translation exhibition opening, which featured the work of C...

A pair of swans have taken up residence on our local swimming pond. As swans are birds of habit and mate for life, they are probably the sa...

Over the years that I have been writing this blog I have come to know some of my readers, through the comments they leave, emails they sen...

The other day I was browsing in a local antikvariat (second-hand bookshop) and working my way through a pile of mostly uninspiring old p...

Above is a notice advertising the museum in Jindrichuv Hradec. Come and see “the biggest mechanical creche in the world.”* One of the thin...

Radio Prague has just reported: Sumava National Park director resigns The director of the Sumava National Park, Frantisek Krejci, h...