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Work hard, eat tapas: Andalusia
Sometimes I look at the amount of traveling BW and I do and feel a touch dizzy. Who gets to do this? We're just a couple of educators, not Sultans of Brunei, though we feel like it sometimes when we...
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A pig bits tradition: Zabijacka
Caveat: Vegan/vegetarian friends, you may want to skip this post.Before moving to the Czech Republic, one of the only frames of reference BW had about the country was an Anthony Bourdain TV episode...
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A doggone good hike
A post by Jayda. Woof.Mom and I went for a two-day hike in the Czech Křivoklátsko woods all by ourselves, since dad is out of town on a cookery course. We had everything packed up before going, from...
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Took me on a date
Oh, how to celebrate Valentine's Day when your sweetheart is not around, when Aphrodite isn't on your side?Well, I went straight for this:Yep, I took myself out on a date to one of Prague's sugary...
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5-sense Saturday: Post-holiday edition
January and February can usually be summed up with a resigned "meh." They're grey and slushy. They end the holiday season. They mark a taxing term full of IB deadlines at school. They mean sniffle...
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To market to market
It might be chilly enough to require hats and scarves, but that hasn't stopped the Dejvicka Farmers' Market from opening near our flat! Behold the masses of bundled people happily clutching...
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Tracing roots... and finding a family castle!
Thanks to a penchant for pilsner, classical music concerts and antique bazaars, my Great Uncle L and Aunt B keep returning to Prague. Uncle L used to teach Journalism classes at Charles University, and...
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Wine not?
I'd wanted to see the film "Spotlight", but the cinema where it was showing was a 15-minute walk from our tram stop and it was POURING rain out. So we ducked into a nearby wine bar called Bokovka,...
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In like with Liberec
Happy summertime, all! It's been a while since the last blog post; life has been nutty with moving flats, wrapping up the school year in JULY and some other major life events that I'll write about...
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Five-sense Saturday: New nephew edition
The shift from Spring to Summer was packed with enough things to knock our senses right out. Here are some of our oblíbené (favorites):HEARD:...Don Giovanni, Mozart's masterpiece, at the Estates...
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Transitions - big ones!
I saw this quote on a Twitter #edchat recently and it resonated with me:This Summer has been one of transition on a grand scale. We've traveled as usual, but bigger things have been brewing, things...
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Our hop around Croatian islands
Until this year, Croatia was the top holiday destination for Czechs - it's now been trumped by Slovakia. After the eighth or ninth Czech friend told us how much they loved Croatia in summertime, we...
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Czech things that intimidate me
I used to throw the hammer in college and have broken up my share of high school brawls. However, there are a few things that I'm too big a wimp to sample whilst living in the Czech Republic. Here's...
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Time to settle the pedals
Prague's wet, chilly Autumn weather has caused us to hang our bikes up for the season. And by that I mean lean them against the wall in our abnormally large kitchen.Every year we admonish ourselves for...
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Valley of the dog
A post by Jayda. Woof.I love not having a proper job and just being able to nap all day, but things can get a touch monotonous for my furry taste. So when ma and pa had a day off work, I yipped and...
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Eastward in August
If I told you there was a place with an incredible art scene, savory food and balmy late summer temps, what bits of the world would come to mind?...(thinking time)...I'm guessing you didn't name...
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In the Christmas spirit
There is a complete lack of snow here in Prague; apparently Jack Frost is holed up with the Grinch somewhere. So we've been striking up Christmas spirit on our own, and trying to do it in a more Czech...
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25 years of lasky (love)
A love poem translated by *Václav JZ Pinkava:The sort of love that results in 25 years of togetherness is extraordinary, and we were able to celebrate it recently at our friends' quarter-century...
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Czech culture learning materials
As a teacher, I'm constantly compiling materials for lessons, so I thought, why not gather some materials that I've used for learning about the culture here in the Czech Republic?Anyone can jump on...
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Home for the Holidays :)
Ho ho ho, Merry Midwest Christmas! We hadn't been back for Christmas in the four years we've lived in the Czech Republic, so a trip home this winter was long overdue. Also, with our pending adoption,...
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5-sense Saturday
Slush, muck, shivers and smog - Prague has been a tad worse-for-wear recently. The city just issued its third air pollution alert this year and formerly lovely blankets of crystalline snow have melted...
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Frantiskovy Lazne in February
Reasons to go to the charming little Czech spa town of Františkovy Lázně in drab February:1) Goethe, Beethoven and Franz Joseph the First were all regular guests to the mineral baths and spa treatments...
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A flat fiasco, now fine
BW and I ended up in our current flat on a fluke; we never planned to be here. We loved our last place and had no intention of moving - but we got displaced when our landlady decided to relocate back...
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CZECHGREATS
Winter is winnowing away and while there's been lots of theatre-going and park-walking, we've also been checking items off the ol' to-do list, which seems to sprout another few inches every time we...
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A Prague Seven Stroll
The thing about Prague is that you can stroll out your front door every day for a year and still find yourself in a new crevice of the city each time. After 3.5 years of living here, I'm gobsmacked by...
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