Adventures in the Czech Republic

I always spend March in England, for a number of reasons including being with my mother on Mothering Sunday. For this reason I have never...

I am currently working on my guidebook to Cesky Krumlov, ready for publication at the end of the month (I hope). The text is written and ...

    In a previous post I talked about my tour of Prague's Municipal House (Obecni Dum). And mostly I talked about the building in t...

Tuesday was Shrove Tuesday and so Masopust was celebrated in the Czech Republic. I have blogged about Masopust in previous posts and ...

When you start collecting Czech ex libris, you will also be offered PFs. These are New Year cards and usually feature the letters PF (whi...

  The first Czech painting I ever saw in the Czech Republic was The Absinthe Drinker by Viktor Oliva. I had just arrived in a bitterly c...

Signed by Mirko Hanak For my Christmas present to my husband I made a small album of Czech bookplates. I have in the past bought exlibr...