Blogs from Vysocina Region, Czech Republic, Europe

The final zoo that I had time for on this trip was Jihlava Zoo which is located in the town of Jihlava, also about an hour from Brno by car. The zoo is much closer to the centre than Zlin or Brno, and some parts of the centre of town look over the zoo. I didn't have time to visit the town because we only got to the zoo at 11, and by the time I was done at 3:30 it was already getting dark, but my parents spent the day in the town and I have been told that it is very nice. During winter, Jihlava is certainly my favourite of the three zoos, and I suspect I would have had the same impression in the summer, but I can understand the different, more open, ... read more

Here is our trip in few details. We leave Czech in March and we should be in Moscow 23.3.2012. We are going to spend one week with our friends there. Our next stop is olympic town of Sochi/ Black Sea region/ where we would like to spend two weeks. Next stop is Volgograd/ former Stalingrad/ and alongside river Volga/Saratov, Uljanovsk, Samara, Kazan/ we will be heading to Nizhnij Tagil. We have a friend there who will spend one week travelling Ural Mountains with us/ there is a border between Europe and Asia/. From there our route leads us to Ekaterinburg, Zlatoust and Cheliabinsk. Our visa for Kazakhstan are valid from 16.5.2012, so this is a date when we want to cross border and head towards Astana and Almaty. Friend of mine who lives in Almaty will ... read more

Hi all, we are couple from Czech Republic/ Kamil+Helena/ and we are planning trip from Czech to Russia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, South Korea, Japan and Australia. We will spend two years on the road in our Mitsubishi Delica. We will be leaving Czech in March 2012. We should arrive in Australia in January 2013 and we will be driving around OZ for one year and then we will ship car back to Europe. Ahoj vsem, jsme par z Ceska/ Kamil+Helena/ a planujeme cestu pres Rusko, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Jizni Koreu, Japonsko do Australe. Stravime dva roky na ceste v nasem Mitsubishi Delica. Vyrazime na cestu v breznu 2012 a do Australie by jsme meli dorazit v pocatku 2013. Plan je stravit rok cestovanim kolem Australe a pote poslat auto zpet do Evropy. ... read more

Just a short, no pictures entry. On wednesday there was a public holiday in the Czech Republic celebrating the anniversary of the Velvet Revolution, which overthrew the Czechoslovakian single-party communist state in 1989. On this day many small towns have markets popping up, as it serves as a great reason for people to start their christmas shopping. Jessica, Jakub and I took a 2 hour trip to Havlíčkův Brod, a small historical town about halfway between Prague and Brno in the midst of the Vysočina region, where I had previously never been. The town square was thriving with interesting stalls, mostly of craftwork and local food (the speciality of this region is "zabijáčka", basically meat from a ritual pig slaughter). We also saw someone serving goulash from a cauldron, and a lot of honey-based snacks (including ... read more

I apologize for the long wait for my next blog, these past few weeks have been ridiculous busy! It’s been more than a month now that I’ve been constantly traveling, be it to Boston, to New York, to the Czech Republic, back and forth between Prague, to Brno, to Moravská Třebová, and now on Thursday, I’m headed to Italy! It’s been a blast, but exhausting at the same time, and I’ve also yet to have steady internet (and won’t have internet in my apartment until the 29th!), so bear with me in the amount of things I’m about to talk about! Since we last spoke, I’ve been teaching at the medical school. My first week went fairly well, except for the fact that I was very sick. The weather here is naturally much drier than in ... read more