Adventures in the Czech Republic

It has been freezing lately - see photographs of frost in my previous post - but my room is as they say in Britain 'toasty'. One r...

We have had freezing fog for two nights (-5 degrees yesterday early evening) which covered everything with sharp points of frost. Then this ...

I came across this calendar in a Czech second-hand bookshop or antikvariat. It dates back to 1975 and features the art of Cyril Bouda. Each...

After our visit to Slavonice and the 1938 bunkers (see previous post) my husband and I drove to Trebic, where we stayed in the old Jewish...

Czechs view the events of 1938 very differently from us Brits. For them British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's betrayal at Munich...

My husband and I visited the St Wenceslas celebrations despite not being dressed for the drop in evening temperature with the sudden a...

I walked around the World on Thursday and it only took me three-and-a-half hours (it would have taken three but I stopped in a pub for a dri...