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

  • Daily Life,  Lifestyle,  Summer

    The Perks of a Summer Spent at Home

    September 19, 2022 /

    The only other August I’ve ever spent so much time here in the Czech Republic was the year I got married (2015), and that was after two months away! I’ve called this year our “Baby Summer of 2022” as things are clearly a bit different with an infant. As we’ve been very much around, one thing which has firmly taken a place in our summer rituals is that of the weekly farmer’s market visit. We have a beautiful bi-weekly market in Piaristické Square here in Budejovice… I think I’ve never been to a market in a more beautiful setting than this one. As we aren’t getting a CSA (community-supported agriculture)…

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    Photo an Hour – An October Weekday

    October 20, 2019

    Three-Day Seasonal Eating Menu: Late Summer

    September 6, 2020

    Weeks 40-44 of 2024 (Year in Review) – OCTOBER, Lately

    November 19, 2024
  • Baby,  Pregnancy,  Spring,  Summer,  Thoughts

    The Third Trimester & My Pregnancy Favorites

    August 19, 2022 /

    Happy summer, friends! We’ve been hanging out in South Bohemia as a new little family since our release from the hospital and it’s been such a nice slow time getting adjusted to the rhythms of life with a newborn. Our little one is already two months old now and I’ve been so lucky to have Alex off work until the start of the new school year and here at home. Thanks again for all the kind well wishes, messages and even gifts from some dear online friends. I never got to do a third trimester recap (clearly) – it was my shortest and unexpectedly toughest trimester, having been diagnosed with…

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    Weeks 23-26 of 2024 (In Review) – The Month of June

    June 27, 2024

    My Two-and-a-Half Year Maternity Leave in the Czech Republic

    February 12, 2025

    Life Lately: And That Was Autumn With a Baby

    November 27, 2022
  • Baby,  czech culture,  Pregnancy,  Summer

    Hello, baby! (and my time in a Czech hospital)

    July 9, 2022 /

    Well! I certainly didn’t think I’d be writing this at this point, but I have so much to update you about! We are so proud to announce the birth of our little Milo Mouse (who henceforth will be referred to in this space as “Mouse”) in the setting sun of Friday, June 10, 2022, several weeks ahead of schedule! I’ve been hanging out with him for about a month now and he is sweet as can be and thankfully healthy. We are loving soaking up all of these sweet newborn moments with him in our little family. Our Mouse surprised the heck out of us – he came in fast…

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    Life, Lately: Autumn With a One-Year-Old

    November 11, 2023

    The Third Trimester & My Pregnancy Favorites

    August 19, 2022

    My Two-and-a-Half Year Maternity Leave in the Czech Republic

    February 12, 2025
  • 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…

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    The Saturday of Summer

    July 31, 2020

    Summer, Lately: Celebrations & Life With a 12 Month Old

    July 2, 2023

    Week 27 & 28 of 2024 (In Review) – Karlovy Vary Film Festival with a Two-Year-Old & Dog

    July 20, 2024
  • Austria,  Summer,  Travel,  TravelTips

    Das Sommerhaus (Getting to Know Vienna)

    July 17, 2021 /

    So, it’s early June 2021, things are starting to open up, but you don’t feel super comfortable with travel yet (even though you will be fully vaccinated), yet still want to book yourself a nice relaxing holiday without having to jump on an airplane (there will be plenty of that this year). For me, the ideal situation was to visit our neighbors to the south in Austria, only a three hour train ride away and open without restrictions to vaccinated travelers. As we hadn’t (at time of booking) visited a big city since before the pandemic, we were both game to head back to Vienna. Although I went briefly for…

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    This Festive Season

    December 20, 2019
    Bad Ischl

    An Austrian Alpine Holiday

    January 4, 2020

    Language Progress + Thoughts on Solo Travel

    November 21, 2019
  • Eats,  Prague,  South Bohemia,  Summer,  TravelTips

    Summer, Lately + Prague Eats!

    July 11, 2021 /

    You know it’s summer when it’s stormy and the reality TV shows are back on! I wish I could write here more often, and I hope I will, but writing a post takes so, so many hours of editing and perfecting. Maybe I’ll do more but “imperfect” posts? (says the perfectionist) Ah well. July, one of my absolute favorite months is now fully under way and things are in a much better place for us here. Coming out of May was rough (as you might’ve inferred from the title of this post) but the wrapping up of a school year always makes me so happy, as do celebratory post-school-year trips…

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    Three-Day Seasonal Eating Menu: Late Summer

    September 6, 2020
  • Daily Life,  Pandemic,  Spring,  Summer

    How to Recover From the Complete Mess of the Past Eight Months Now That It’s June

    June 1, 2021 /

    Go outside. Leave your house. Just to practice leaving it, really. To build up your confidence with leaving the house again. It’s going to take some time. Consider the mornings, when there’s not many people. Consider a regular practice of nice evening post-dinner constitutionals in the light. It’s the end of spring and hiking season is here! Plan a hiking or walking trip, even if it’s raining a bit. Maybe even if it’s pouring! Walk through the park and marvel at all of the green. Meet a friend for a socially-distanced coffee as you are almost fully-vaccinated but not quite. This month you’re going to have the first swim of…

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    Week 38 & 39 of 2034 (Year in Review)

    October 2, 2024

    October, Lately

    October 15, 2020

    Three-Day Seasonal Eating Menu: Late Summer

    September 6, 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…

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    Germany and Denmark’s North Sea Coast (with a Two-Year-Old)

    October 13, 2024

    Croatia in a Pandemic Summer

    August 24, 2020

    Weeks 23-26 of 2024 (In Review) – The Month of June

    June 27, 2024
  • Daily Life,  Eats,  Herbalism,  Recipe,  Summer

    Three-Day Seasonal Eating Menu: Late Summer

    September 6, 2020 /

    Here in South Bohemia, like many other parts of the country (and maybe where you live, too), we are lucky to have a bounty of gorgeous vegetables in season this time of year. Five or six years ago I subscribed to our CSA (community-supported agriculture) vegetable box which is usually only available about May-late October, and it has provided us with such delicious organic produce over the years, some vegetables that were totally unknown to me before coming here. (Achocha? Kohlrabi? I had never eaten both in my life!) In between boxes, I’m always at the bi-weekly farmer’s market picking up eggs (especially), fruit and whatever else looks good or…

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    How I Come Alive Again

    May 7, 2021

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

    July 19, 2020

    Photo an Hour – An October Weekday

    October 20, 2019
  • Daily Life,  Lifestyle,  Minimalism,  Summer

    Upgrade Season

    August 30, 2020 /

    The end of summer is always upgrade season for us kids. It’s usually the time of the year that we come back from whatever summer adventures we’ve undertaken, walk in our house and say man, that table’s got to go or I can’t believe we still haven’t got that print framed. You see, we’ve lived in a furnished flat since the beginning of 2013. Most of our furniture is used and loved hand-me-downs (which I am so, so grateful to have been able to use!) or just whatever furniture that friends of ours don’t want anymore. Because we never knew how long we’d stay, I’ve always been reluctant to purchase…

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    Weeks 40-44 of 2024 (Year in Review) – OCTOBER, Lately

    November 19, 2024

    The Perks of a Summer Spent at Home

    September 19, 2022

    Photo an Hour – An October Weekday

    October 20, 2019
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adventurings is a blog by cynthia, an american living in the czech republic.

sustainable seasonal urban living / slow travel / minimalism / recipes / musings / expat life

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