• Home
  • About
  • Destinations
  • Affiliates & Discounts
  • Collaborate
  • Home
  • About
  • Destinations
  • Affiliates & Discounts
  • Collaborate
Adventurings

tales from urban bohemia & finding a simpler pace of life in the czech republic

  • Milestones,  Pregnancy,  Spring,  Thoughts

    Life Lately (Pregnancy) Update: Second Trimester

    May 1, 2022 /

    Happy May! This week I’ve entered the third trimester. With less than three months until our new baby joins us, things are starting to feel very real around here and I figured it was time for a bit of a life and pregnancy update. I was very lucky to spend the beginnings of my 2nd trimester at home this January and February as it was exam period during the height of the highest COVID spike we have seen yet in Czech Republic, and hide I duly did. Fortunately the situation has looked better and better, as we are no longer dark red on the map and cases are lower than…

    read more
    0 Comments

    You May Also Like

    May, Lately + More Thoughts of Traveling “These Days”

    May 14, 2020
  • Life Abroad,  Milestones,  Pregnancy

    A Little Ray of Sunshine: The Next Phase Begins

    March 10, 2022 /

    Our life adventuring abroad has occurred in big phases. Stepping onto a plane bound for Glasgow, Scotland with no return tickets. Moving to Ceske Budejovice and becoming gainfully employed in Europe. Getting married and coming back to the Czech Republic with renewed commitment. The post-wedding years really coming into our own here. It’s time for what will be the beginning of the next phase: We’re expecting our rainbow baby in July and we’re so excited! You might be wondering some details, so here are the questions I could think of… How are you feeling? Really great, now, at twenty-one weeks. Truly, every single day feels different. I don’t think anyone’s…

    read more
    0 Comments

    You May Also Like

    A Broad, Abroad: Secrets for Traveling Europe on a Budget

    January 25, 2014

    May, Lately + More Thoughts of Traveling “These Days”

    May 14, 2020

    Autumn Celebrations + A Delicious Drink {Recipe}

    November 14, 2021
  • Lifestyle,  Yearly Recap

    The Books of 2021

    January 12, 2022 /

    I made some major mistakes in my reading life last year. It pretty much all came down to being far too ambitious and picking up way too many reading projects! You might remember last year when I announced my participation in #OurYearInTranslation, in addition to trying to keep up with my book club. What a colossal mistake. I think OYIT is a great prompt if you’re stuck, in a rut and want to try something new, but that’s the thing – I was really happy with my big stack of books as it was and I didn’t really need a challenge. Honestly, I just needed everyone to leave me alone…

    read more
    0 Comments

    You May Also Like

    Growing a Tiny Garden Anywhere

    March 6, 2020

    The Books of 2020

    January 7, 2021

    Little Cottage in the Woods

    October 8, 2020
  • Life Abroad,  Thoughts,  Yearly Recap

    Looking Back On Last Year, 2021

    January 9, 2022 /

    Alright, look, I’m embarrassed how late this post is coming out, but when you’ve just come home from a fifteen day trip abroad, dropped your bag and started a full work week (ew), there are a lot of other things to manage. So already, we’re not doing it the traditional way as the typical happy “Year of Life and Travels” year-end re-caps. 2021 was one of the hardest years I’ve experienced, but I can’t tell if it’s only the beginning of more to come or just a fluke of a year. I admit, I can only think of a couple years or times of my life that reached the same…

    read more
    0 Comments

    You May Also Like

    This Festive Season

    December 20, 2019

    Autumn Celebrations + A Delicious Drink {Recipe}

    November 14, 2021

    Surviving March, Pt. II: Embracing #MaskLife

    March 21, 2020
  • Summer,  Thoughts,  Yearly Recap

    At Summer’s End

    September 20, 2021 /

    Ahoj, friends – what a break it’s been since my last post in July. As you know, I’ve been in the USA for most of that time, only just returning back to the Czech Republic at the beginning of this month. I unexpectedly decided, especially with everything going on, that during that time producing anything was not it and that I really needed to just take it all in. Input instead of output. I do think that we all need time like this at certain parts of the year or even month to not put anything out there and to just listen. Normally around this time of year, I would…

    read more
    0 Comments

    You May Also Like

    At Summer’s End

    September 21, 2020

    Three-Day Seasonal Eating Menu: Late Summer

    September 6, 2020

    Summer, Lately + Prague Eats!

    July 11, 2021
  • Lifestyle,  Winter,  Yearly Recap

    The Books of 2020

    January 7, 2021 /

    A big year for reading it was! I set my reading goal intentionally low at twenty books, but in the end I managed thirty-one! Perhaps this was because I still wasn’t sure if I would undertake any kind of formal studies and wanted to emphasize quality over quantity, and although I greatly surpassed it, I don’t really think the pandemic was the culprit. This was the first year that I really, actively considered reading books a hobby. Before it was just something I did, I guess, but now it’s gone full-out obsession, I’m either sorry or delighted to say. Ironically, I feel like I spend more time thinking about what…

    read more
    0 Comments

    You May Also Like

    A Winter Cafe Day (with JORD)

    February 3, 2020

    The Saturday of Summer

    July 31, 2020

    Photo an Hour – An October Weekday

    October 20, 2019
  • Czech Republic,  Daily Life,  Winter,  Yearly Recap

    Year of Life & Travels: 2020

    December 31, 2020 /

    We made it! And yes, even 2020 is going to get a recap post! I love these sorts of posts and catching up with what people were up to this year, so here we are. They’re also really wonderful to look back on and see the year as a whole. I know a lot of people choose a word of the year before the year even gets going, but as I do my year-end reflections on the last few days remaining, the word to define the year that was always comes to me. This year would be adapt, of course. And now, a run-down of the year that was… Ah,…

    read more
    0 Comments

    You May Also Like

    So, You’re Going to Prague? (A Mini-Guide of my Favorites)

    May 12, 2016

    8 Peculiar Czech Cultural Habits (& Book Giveaway!)

    May 28, 2022

    Is the Czech Republic the Dog-Friendliest Country in Europe?

    July 19, 2020
  • Summer,  Thoughts,  Yearly Recap

    At Summer’s End

    September 21, 2020 /

    Someone recently asked me “What did you do this summer?” and when I told them, they proceeded to sort of frown over my answer. Better put into a metaphor: This summer was like having a best friend come to visit for three months, but finding that you don’t get along as well as you always have, and when they leave, it’s sort of on a weird note and you don’t quite know how you feel about it, compared to their previous visits. Our holiday in Croatia in early-mid August was really the only concrete thing or the easiest to mention, but this summer was more full of small moments of…

    read more
    0 Comments

    You May Also Like

    Adventurings, 2.0

    September 29, 2019

    Croatia in a Pandemic Summer

    August 24, 2020

    Late Spring / Early Summer

    June 25, 2020
  • Budějovice,  Czech Republic,  Life Abroad,  Milestones,  South Bohemia,  Spring,  Travel

    May, Lately + More Thoughts of Traveling “These Days”

    May 14, 2020 /

    What a beautiful spring we are having this year! Unlike other years where it’s been like winter winter winter SUMMER and maybe one week of spring temperatures, we’ve really seen spring this year. April has been full of warm days and sun, trickling into May, even though we’re in a couple days of a cold snap right now (a good excuse to sit down and write something), I have really been enjoying it (ughhh, I probably say this every year, so here it is). I just actually learned about the days May 12-14 here called the “days of the ice men” (Ledoví muži). This is because those days are the…

    read more
    0 Comments

    You May Also Like

    Autumn Celebrations + A Delicious Drink {Recipe}

    November 14, 2021
    Bad Ischl

    An Austrian Alpine Holiday

    January 4, 2020

    A Winter Cafe Day (with JORD)

    February 3, 2020
  • Daily Life,  Lifestyle,  Yearly Recap

    The Books of 2019

    January 8, 2020 /

    I know it’s called “the books” of 2019, but I mean merely, that they were books that defining the year for me – I make no big claims here. But now it’s time to take a look at favorite books, disappointing books, reading goals for this year, and generally how everything went. I just barely scraped by my Goodreads goal, just completing my 25 books in 2019. (welp, that went well!) The year before I’d managed over 30, so must’ve got stuck on some slog-reads again, but I feel good about having made it, of course. Rating them an average of 3.8/5, I’d say it was a pretty positive reading…

    read more
    0 Comments

    You May Also Like

    Late Spring / Early Summer

    June 25, 2020

    Photo an Hour – An October Weekday

    October 20, 2019

    A Time of Simple Holidays

    December 22, 2020
 Older Posts

adventurings is a blog by cynthia, an american living in the czech republic.

sustainable urban living / travel / minimalism / recipes / musings

Follow

Recent Posts

  • Hello, baby! (and my time in a Czech hospital)
  • 8 Peculiar Czech Cultural Habits (& Book Giveaway!)
  • Life Lately (Pregnancy) Update: Second Trimester
  • The Moments That Remind Me Why I’m Here
  • Babymoon in Moravia

Archives

Categories

Instagram

popular categories

Bedside Table

Reading
Goodreads

Currently

České Budějovice, Czech Republic

Upcoming Trips

Reykjavik, Iceland in October/November

© 2012–2022 Adventurings
  • Home
  • About
  • Destinations
  • Affiliates & Discounts
  • Collaborate
Ashe Theme by WP Royal.