Adventures in the Czech Republic

I am still having problems with RSI in my wrist, which makes typing for any length of time a problem. It has resulted in delays in writi...

I reviewed this novel over on my magic realism blog. It is a fascinating and poetic evocation of Prague and the events there in the last cen...

This week a number of ceremonies are taking place to celebrate the contribution of the 2500 Czechs who flew with the RAF against the Nazi...

  Statue of Rabbi Loew, Prague In a previous post I told of the Golem's creation, but the story does not end there. For a while ...

I was talking to a British tourist the other day, who told me how the family of a friend of hers had been unlucky enough to have experienced...

You can find sgraffito on the walls of old buildings throughout the Czech Republic. It is a form of wall decoration created by applying t...

  Ales print of Rabbi Loew Previously I talked in general about golems. In this post I want to tell you the legend of the Golem of Prag...