Blogs from Moravian-Silesian Region, Czech Republic, Europe

Yesterday, Friday 10th June I left Cesky Krumlov for a long 421km journey across the country to town called Opava. I am visiting my friend Lenka who was my inspiration to visit Czech Republic. I left the hostel just after 8am and after 1 bus and 3 trains (the first of which was 45mins late and threw out all my connections) later, I reached my destination approximately 11 hours later. I was glad to see a friendly face at the end, or I should say 2 friendly faces: Lenka and her dog Tara!. View from the trains confirmed the whole country is green either by pasture or forest. Totally exhausted from doing nothing we crashed early. Next day, Saturday, Lenka drove us to a nearby village of Hradec nad Moravici, which is on the river Moravici. ... read more

Hey guys. Been busy around lately with a good number of law suits and legal advices and likewise Got some time to write and have the opportunity to share out to you what's up with me. There are a lot of things to know most especially if you have an area similar to a legal practice. There is nothing effective than present legal insight and have the option to say to win the case. Despite the fact that is not the case some of the time because there are claims that is way much hassle free when compared to pressure from inside the court. As an legal professional, it is my accountability to analyze after my client's welfare. My sweetheart and I become accustomed to it and always communicate ideas. There is no more romantic that ... read more

February 12-13 Berlin (NE Germany) February 19-20 Czech Republic February 26-27 Poland March 5-6 England March 12-13 Nürtingen (SW Germany) Czech sounds prettier than german CR beer tastes much better than german beer there's light snow on the ground, it looks fantastic the 'expensive' club in the city i was in had 2 euro admission and beers for $1.50 the buildings are not run down, they look great :-) Czech girls are very pretty Czech is harder to learn than german Czech sounds better than german Czech people understand Russian, Ukrainian, and Polish Czech candies are more complex and with better flavors German candies have better chocolate Czech republic is very humid A struggle in the czech republic is keeping mold off the inside walks of your house I was in two Czech houses, both of ... read more

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

We spent slightly over 24 hours in Ostrava, enough to say we’d “been” but little more. Actually we wouldn’t have spent any time there if it weren’t for the relevant stars coming into alignment at the right time. Concord Dawn, one of NZ’s DnB production legends, was to be playing in the city around the same time we were to be travelling past. It would’ve been rude not to stop really ;) Walking the wide, empty streets of Ostrava felt like a totally different world after our experience in Zywiec. The two destinations are almost exact polar opposites. While Zywiec has it’s name to lean on, Ostrava is famous for its sprawling industrial nature that exploited the huge reserves of coal beneath the city. Despite this, the town is doing all it can to promote the ... read more

If I had to choose one word to describe what we did today, it would be the word walk, because basically that’s all we did. We woke up, had the complimentary breakfast in the hotel, and just walked. Not far from our hotel was situated not another famous tourist attraction, but the most famous attraction, Stodolni Street. This street is literally crazy, it was crowded with people. The atmosphere was hyper and upbeat and had somewhat of a music-based theme. Whether you’re an oldies type of person or a new, hip, today type of person, anyone could find their type of music. Abby and I stuck together and explored every single type of music that was there. It was pretty fun!! Another feature that this street contained was something that I’ll never forget; I swear there ... read more

Today it was our plan to visit one of the most important tourist attractions in the city. It’s called the Silesian-Ostrava Castle. This castle was built in the 13th century, but was reconstructed several times due to coal mining that was going on under it. I had such a fun time visiting this place, we learned about the history and development of the city, the Thirty Years War, we got to see a fresh water aquarium that was on the site, go through a witch themed exhibition, and we got to see a torture chamber. It was amazing. Abby and I were so amazed and caught up in the attraction that time flew by. Before we knew it, the sun was going down. One other thing that I can’t forget to mention was my bathroom situation. ... read more