By the above title I mean to say "the highest mountain in Moravia" and "the God of Moravia" (I don't really know who that is..) This weekend has turned out not to be too much of a language test, I just haven't been speaking much.. instead it turned out to be more of an endurance test filled with walks through landscapes whose off-the-track ground currently bears between 80cm and 3 metres of snowfall. The day temperatures are fine as long as you wear enough layers (maybe around -5 at the lowest), the paths are fine to walk on as long as you can work out where they are, and the air is squeaky clean. We arrived to Vrbno on thursday after a hectic journey featuring a domino chain of delays and running around stations to catch ... read more

My first four weeks back in the Czech Republic have definitely been blog-worthy despite the fact that no travelling has really occured, it's been such a different and in many ways, heavy experience. Coming from an absolutely skewiff London which I ended up leaving a day later than I was supposed to because 3 inches of snowfall had closed Gatwick Airport for a day, to Prague riddled with at least 4 times this, and temperatures averaging around freezing by day and -5 by night, but then dropping as low as -20 on the nights when the clouds finally subside. The area I live in is somewhere between the airport, civilisation and hyper-civilisation. To the north is the sleepy, traumatised district Ruzyně, which gives its name to the airport and appears to have once been a tranquil, ... read more

This isn't really travel blogging but about a project I'm working on for University at the moment, an audio-visual piece taking the ideas from a piece called "Different Trains" by Steve Reich and recreating them using electronic sources, with video to accompany, and a narrative about European Rail Tourism. This documents the production of the project and gives you a preview at the end. The completed product will be with you in December! Part 1 Part 2 Hope you enjoy :)... read more

This has been a busy weekend, was DJing in Jablonec nad Nisou on friday night and Prague on saturday night (both shows were epic). The rest of the time I've just been chilling and sleeping, and on Saturday during the day my friend Jessica showed me around Stromovka park and Troja castle, just around the north of the bend in the river. I fully recommend a visit here on a warm summers day.. haven't got much to write about it though. Troja had nice scenery, some interesting sculptures around the chateau and lots of fruit growing all over the place which you can eat. There's also a really wobbly bridge going over the river there from Stromovka, and an amazing looking cycle path following the river which leads all the way into the city.... read more

The last night in Novalja gave me just 2 hours of sleep, it was horrifically hot and for some idiotic reason I refused to open the window to keep the mosquitoes out, despite having a fan on which would have done the job alone. So after writhing in that oven of an apartment all night, I gave a rather tired sigh of relief as I stepped onto the (air-conditioned) coach to Zagreb, knowing that tonight I would be leaving the 36°C August temperatures of former Yugoslavia long long behind. I arrived into Zagreb 3 hours before my train out again was supposed to leave, so that gave me some time to see the city, something which I chose not to do last time I came through here the other way. Apart from the appaling organisation of ... read more