Adventures in the Czech Republic

On this the Holocaust Memorial Day this post is about the concentration camp at Lety close to Pisek.  Lety was built as a labour ca...

Before Christmas I spent four weeks waiting to sign the contract for the sale of the house. In the end the signing took place on the morn...

On the walk down to the train station I pass the swimming pond. The pond is now frozen over and soon the ice will be thick enough to sk...

This little fellow came with the house. He was here when we took possession of the place on that bright sunny November morning in 2005. ...

A friend and I were laughing recently about our mutual friend, Hannah, who always denied that wolves could be in the Czech Republic. ...

I have been listening to a delightful radio programme on the BBC called Susurrations of Trees  - susurration is the English word for ...

I sometimes dream of houses; I did last night. Hannah used to take the Jungian line on house dreams that they are not about houses b...