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Czechs celebrate anniversaries of Jan Hus and Cyril and Metoděj on successive days
Author: admin Posted: July 5th, 2009
Czechs celebrate anniversaries of Jan Hus and Cyril and Metoděj on successive days
Author: admin Posted: July 5th, 2009
Svatý Valentýn comes to Prague, fills expat paper's space
Author: Dominik Lukeš Posted: February 13th, 2009
Categories: About Czechs and Czech Republic
• Habits and customs
• History
• Holidays
• Numbers, statistics, surveys and polls
The Prague Daily Monitor makes a 'desperate-to-fill-space-on-the-page' connection between the increasing popularity of the previously un read more »
Svatý Valentýn comes to Prague, fills expat paper's space
Author: Dominik Lukeš Posted: February 13th, 2009
Categories: About Czechs and Czech Republic
• Habits and customs
• History
• Holidays
• Numbers, statistics, surveys and polls
The Prague Daily Monitor makes a 'desperate-to-fill-space-on-the-page' connection between the increasing popularity of the previously un read more »
EU Skeptic Ideologue Praises 'Courageous' Czechs in a Newspaper that Once Supported Hitler's Annexation
Author: Dominik Lukeš Posted: February 8th, 2009
Categories: About Czechs and Czech Republic
• History
• International perspectives: Czechs and the world
• National identity
• News
• Numbers, statistics, surveys and polls
Prominent UK right-winger, Peter Hitchens lays out the involved history of the Czech land in a typically tendentiously der read more »
EU Skeptic Ideologue Praises 'Courageous' Czechs in a Newspaper that Once Supported Hitler's Annexation
Author: Dominik Lukeš Posted: February 8th, 2009
Categories: About Czechs and Czech Republic
• History
• International perspectives: Czechs and the world
• National identity
• News
• Numbers, statistics, surveys and polls
Prominent UK right-winger, Peter Hitchens lays out the involved history of the Czech land in a typically tendentiously der read more »
Lost in translation: Prudish Washington Post journalist mistranslates spa, has time of her life in Karlovy Vary
Author: Dominik Lukeš Posted: February 7th, 2009
Categories: About Czechs and Czech Republic
• Environment
• Habits and customs
• Health
• History
• Holidays
• International perspectives: Czechs and the world
• Language
• Tourism
A slender blonde sitting next to me on a bench in Karlovy Vary's Spa III got up, tossed off the white read more »
Lost in translation: Prudish Washington Post journalist mistranslates spa, has time of her life in Karlovy Vary
Author: Dominik Lukeš Posted: February 7th, 2009
Categories: About Czechs and Czech Republic
• Environment
• Habits and customs
• Health
• History
• Holidays
• International perspectives: Czechs and the world
• Language
• Tourism
A slender blonde sitting next to me on a bench in Karlovy Vary's Spa III got up, tossed off the white read more »
Lost in translation: Prudish Washington Post journalist mistranslates spa, has time of her life in Karlovy Vary
Author: Dominik Lukeš Posted: February 7th, 2009
Categories: About Czechs and Czech Republic
• Environment
• Habits and customs
• Health
• History
• Holidays
• International perspectives: Czechs and the world
• Language
• Tourism
A slender blonde sitting next to me on a bench in Karlovy Vary's Spa III got up, tossed off the white read more »
Most Czechs feel EU alegiance
Author: Dominik Lukeš Posted: January 28th, 2009
Categories: International perspectives: Czechs and the world
• National identity
• Numbers, statistics, surveys and polls
It appears that most Czechs feel good about the EU membership - even half the communists - as the Czech six-month EU presidency gets under way. read more »
Czech drinking habits revealed
Author: Dominik Lukeš Posted: January 27th, 2009
Categories: About Czechs and Czech Republic
• Food and drink
• Habits and customs
• Health
• International perspectives: Czechs and the world
• Numbers, statistics, surveys and polls
1 in 10 Czechs drink like fish, 1 in 10 are teetotallers and the rest have the occasional tipple adding up to 10 liters of pure booze per head per year. All that and more was revealed by a recent survey. read more »
Czech drinking habits revealed
Author: Dominik Lukeš Posted: January 27th, 2009
Categories: About Czechs and Czech Republic
• Food and drink
• Habits and customs
• Health
• International perspectives: Czechs and the world
• Numbers, statistics, surveys and polls
1 in 10 Czechs drink like fish, 1 in 10 are teetotallers and the rest have the occasional tipple adding up to 10 liters of pure booze per head per year. All that and more was revealed by a recent survey. read more »
Amazing images of Czech countryside on Flickr
Author: Dominik Lukeš Posted: January 22nd, 2009
A photographer calling himself 'svedek' (wittness) has an a set of absolutely astonishing snapshots of the 'Czech lands' on Flickr. A must-see for anybody nostalgic after their visit or looking for motivation to go have a look. It's a collection of the new and the old, city and country, sacred and mundane. read more »
Czechs celebrate anniversaries of Jan Hus and Cyril and Metoděj on successive days
Author: admin Posted: July 5th, 2009
Svatý Valentýn comes to Prague, fills expat paper's space
Author: Dominik Lukeš Posted: February 13th, 2009
Categories: About Czechs and Czech Republic
• Habits and customs
• History
• Holidays
• Numbers, statistics, surveys and polls
The Prague Daily Monitor makes a 'desperate-to-fill-space-on-the-page' connection between the increasing popularity of the previously un read more »
EU Skeptic Ideologue Praises 'Courageous' Czechs in a Newspaper that Once Supported Hitler's Annexation
Author: Dominik Lukeš Posted: February 8th, 2009
Categories: About Czechs and Czech Republic
• History
• International perspectives: Czechs and the world
• National identity
• News
• Numbers, statistics, surveys and polls
Prominent UK right-winger, Peter Hitchens lays out the involved history of the Czech land in a typically tendentiously der read more »
EU Skeptic Ideologue Praises 'Courageous' Czechs in a Newspaper that Once Supported Hitler's Annexation
Author: Dominik Lukeš Posted: February 8th, 2009
Categories: About Czechs and Czech Republic
• History
• International perspectives: Czechs and the world
• National identity
• News
• Numbers, statistics, surveys and polls
Prominent UK right-winger, Peter Hitchens lays out the involved history of the Czech land in a typically tendentiously der read more »
Lost in translation: Prudish Washington Post journalist mistranslates spa, has time of her life in Karlovy Vary
Author: Dominik Lukeš Posted: February 7th, 2009
Categories: About Czechs and Czech Republic
• Environment
• Habits and customs
• Health
• History
• Holidays
• International perspectives: Czechs and the world
• Language
• Tourism
A slender blonde sitting next to me on a bench in Karlovy Vary's Spa III got up, tossed off the white read more »
Lost in translation: Prudish Washington Post journalist mistranslates spa, has time of her life in Karlovy Vary
Author: Dominik Lukeš Posted: February 7th, 2009
Categories: About Czechs and Czech Republic
• Environment
• Habits and customs
• Health
• History
• Holidays
• International perspectives: Czechs and the world
• Language
• Tourism
A slender blonde sitting next to me on a bench in Karlovy Vary's Spa III got up, tossed off the white read more »
Lost in translation: Prudish Washington Post journalist mistranslates spa, has time of her life in Karlovy Vary
Author: Dominik Lukeš Posted: February 7th, 2009
Categories: About Czechs and Czech Republic
• Environment
• Habits and customs
• Health
• History
• Holidays
• International perspectives: Czechs and the world
• Language
• Tourism
A slender blonde sitting next to me on a bench in Karlovy Vary's Spa III got up, tossed off the white read more »
Most Czechs feel EU alegiance
Author: Dominik Lukeš Posted: January 28th, 2009
Categories: International perspectives: Czechs and the world
• National identity
• Numbers, statistics, surveys and polls
It appears that most Czechs feel good about the EU membership - even half the communists - as the Czech six-month EU presidency gets under way. read more »
Czech drinking habits revealed
Author: Dominik Lukeš Posted: January 27th, 2009
Categories: About Czechs and Czech Republic
• Food and drink
• Habits and customs
• Health
• International perspectives: Czechs and the world
• Numbers, statistics, surveys and polls
1 in 10 Czechs drink like fish, 1 in 10 are teetotallers and the rest have the occasional tipple adding up to 10 liters of pure booze per head per year. All that and more was revealed by a recent survey. read more »
Czech drinking habits revealed
Author: Dominik Lukeš Posted: January 27th, 2009
Categories: About Czechs and Czech Republic
• Food and drink
• Habits and customs
• Health
• International perspectives: Czechs and the world
• Numbers, statistics, surveys and polls
1 in 10 Czechs drink like fish, 1 in 10 are teetotallers and the rest have the occasional tipple adding up to 10 liters of pure booze per head per year. All that and more was revealed by a recent survey. read more »
Amazing images of Czech countryside on Flickr
Author: Dominik Lukeš Posted: January 22nd, 2009
A photographer calling himself 'svedek' (wittness) has an a set of absolutely astonishing snapshots of the 'Czech lands' on Flickr. A must-see for anybody nostalgic after their visit or looking for motivation to go have a look. It's a collection of the new and the old, city and country, sacred and mundane. read more »
40th Anniversary of Jan Palach's Suicide
Author: Dominik Lukeš Posted: January 16th, 2009
Today is the anniversary of Jan Palach's suicide. read more »
