We moved to Prague, Czech Republic, in 2018. I’ve had in mind to write this article ever since shortly after we moved into our new apartment. I have tarried in writing it because of the heaviness of the subject. The morning of 21 August 2018, we heard a voice over …
One of the chief concerns of travelers to a foreign country is whether they can communicate with others. Being able to be understood by the locals and being able to understand them is very important for conducting business and enjoying the local culture. Prague is the capital of the Czech …
Saturday was a wonderful day as we in the Czech Republic watched the polls close and the returns come in on the presidential election. Our adopted country chose a good person, a true leader, over a self-serving corrupt corporatist as their new head of state. That was fabulous, but the …
Happy Independent Czechoslovak State Day! It is a great day for pork knuckles, klobasa, knedlíky, and raising your glass of ležák pivo to toast the Czech people and their nation! We moved to the Czech Republic in 2018. Prague to be precise. We love it here, and very quickly we …
It’s an old joke that you never see baby pigeons. I hadn’t either until an adult pigeon made a nest in a neighbor’s window box. Here is video of an adult feeding a baby pigeon. They do exist.
Since late 2018, I have had the privilege of living in Prague, Czech Republic. This is not a perfect nation, no nation is, but it has an open, democratic society with civil rights. We were able to emigrate to the Czech Republic because it has a clear, and as far …
I grew up in the United States late in the Cold War. I was one of the Americans continually told to beware of the Soviet evil empire and a threat of nuclear war always simmered in the background. But it was all rather a distant notion—a hypothetical that few thought …
Sixth in our series of beautiful, but normal for Prague, houses throughout Prague. This time focusing on some of the ornate decorations on houses in eastern Vinohrady.
A summer day’s walk into and around Prague’s staré náměstí. Just before the foreign tourists were to be let back in.
