Blogs from South Moravian Region, Czech Republic, Europe - page 5

It takes only 2 hours from Vienna to Brno by train. Meanwhile you pass the beautiful hilly landscape of Moravia. It reminds me a little of Toscane in Italy. But what to do in Brno? Actually we had only one reason to see Brno and that was to visit the Mendel museum. But who was Mendel? Well, Mendel is the founder of genetics. You know the man who came up with the mathematical laws of hereditary, the stuff your teacher biology tried to make clear to you and never succeeded fully. I know, because I was one of them, I mean one of those teachers. We are looking for Grisha, when we come out of the station with our heavy rucksacks. But who is Grisha? Grisha is one of the pupils of the school I used ... read more

So, Hum…. How to even attempt to put such a divine experience into words…. My main drawcard for making the journey to Strilky was to see Swamji for Gurupurnima as well as see Him in European context. When I greeted Swamiji on the day of Gurupurnima, He said to me “Yashoda, you will get Kriya here OK?" Profound gratitude and pure joy bubbled inside me! There was quite a procession of people who came to greet Swamiji, bearing gifts of varying compositions. While the intentions were almost identical, I could not help but notice the amount of plastic packaging. Plastic is alive and thriving in Europe. I participated in the Kriya Anustan program which was quite intensive and a significant learning curve. It involved lots of sitting on our mats and breath techniques for many hours ... read more

Brno Czech Republic On our way to Prague we drove through Brno. There is a Moto GP track there that we did not find. There was not much more there to see. ... read more

Hi guzs, I hope zou all appreciate this as I am currently taking in as much smoke as a řé a day habbit = why are internet places always so smokey. Also the z and the y are backwards so may get i wrong at time and there punctuation is all aver the place. Othere then that we will see what I can do = the beer is helping. Since I spoke to you last scott and I have been to a concentration camp. It was very eerie and somber. We spent a good 3hrs walking round reading all the stuff. The foundations of the small gas chamber and the poles where thez hung people from their arms for days are still visable as to were the extermination trenches. Very moving. Then we went to postdam ... read more

Greetings all, It's come time for me to update this old thing about my Easter adventures, and I have lots to say and only so much desire to write so much, so no time to dilly dally, let's get the ball rolling. On Friday, April 3rd, Libor, Jana , Ivan , and I drove to Vienna with our friend Jevgenij , where he dropped the four of us off, and we spent the afternoon in Vienna. We went to the Schönbrunn Palace where we hung out, people watched, and enjoyed the suddenly warm weather that struck Austria. It was a beautiful day, and we took it all in, then caught the metro into the heart of the city and wandered around a little bit, before eventually finding our way to one of Vienna's train stations to ... read more