Blogs from Olomouc, Olomouc Region, Czech Republic, Europe - page 2

This past week has found me sampling a slice of Czech life. I arrived in Olomouc on Friday and I spent 5 great days there. The family I stayed with consisted of a sweet old grandfather, mother, father, girl 14, girl 17, baby and my friend Martina so it was a bit crowded. However, I grew to love them all very quicky and most of them except the mom and baby spoke English. Voila! I was able to communicate with the mom using my Italian. Close to their house was a cathedral which was so beautiful! Lining the outside were shops which sold among other things, fireworks! So, you could have had a little fun duirng mass. haha. While I was there, I had the opportunity to attend an outdoor film festival, all in Czech of ... read more

holy moly i've been putting this off! first in a week? what are you doing man! well, it serves me right that i come to type this on the most confusing keyboard yet, so we'll see how far we get. not too far i would guess! so yes, as the bit at the side of this entry will inform you, i am currently in olomouc, czech republic. also, as anyone who has been bombarded with texts will also tell you, its pretty dang awesome. i wouldnt say its as good as slovenia, but it's miles above everywhere else. its just so relaxed here, so easy, i wake up and the only thing i think is 'where shall i walk today?'. thats a pretty cool position to be in truth be told. my only worry is what ... read more

Groeten uit Olomouc, in het oosten van Tsjechië! Deel 2 van mijn reis door Oost-Europa is begonnen :) Zondag ben ik vertrokken uit Nederland, eind van de middag uit Groningen om in Arnhem op de nachttrein naar Praag te stappen. Yep, tijdens de EK-finale reed ik dwars door Duitsland :) Ik begrijp dat ze van Spanje hebben verloren... Maandagochtend met een ruime vertraging aangekomen in Praag, waar ik nog anderhalf uur of zo moest wachten op mijn volgende trein, een intercity naar Olomouc. Volgens de Lonely Planet heeft deze stad ongeveer alles wat Praag ook heeft behalve de enorme hoeveelheid toeristen: mooie gebouwen, kerken, een astronomische klok, grote stadspleinen. Dat klopt wel ongeveer :) Gistermiddag en vandaag van alles gezien en relaxed door de stad gelopen. Inderdaad, mooie kerken, de klok op het stadhuis die om ... read more

The Sun is finally out! We have been here almost 4 weeks and until yesterday had only 4 days of sun. Friday was cold and rainy and yesterday we woke up to blue skies and warm temperatures. We have covered a lot of ground in the last several days. We spent a few days in Austria and then drove to Cesky Krumlov in the Czech republic for a few days and now we are in Olomouc still in the Czech Republic. Austria remains for me one of the most beautiful places I have ever been. It is so clean and the colors are so vibrant. The sky is so blue, (the 15 minutes of it we saw in between storms) and the landscaping is so bright. I was disappointed we didn't spend more time in ... read more

In exactly 6 months I will be 21, which means I can legally drink in the US. Today was another day in Olomouc. We had to check out of the dorms by 9:30. We went to an awesome cafe by a lot of the school buildings in town for breakfast. They had real orange juice, basically orange juice that is not extremely watered-down, so I was pretty excited about that. We met up for class after breakfast. The Vice Rector guy who gave us the tour yesterday lectured about the break-up of communism, which was really interesting. I had never really learned too much about communism before, I mean I knew the basics (communism = bad) but it is very interesting to learn about it in a place and with people who actually experienced it. After ... read more