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

  • Baby,  Expat Life,  Milestones,  Summer,  Thoughts

    I Want You To Know.

    June 12, 2023 /

    Dear Our One-Year-Old Growing Little Mouse, This week you turned one! Your first year has both flown by and yet also I can recall every little step of the way, every week with every little new change that happened between last summer and now. It has been one of the greatest years of our lives, being together with you and seeing you grow. Your parents traveled to the Czech Republic over ten years ago – we decided to embark on a big adventure, partially because of the yet unsatisfied curiosity of wanting to experience living in another country and have some international adventures. I felt that there was always some…

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    July 2, 2023

    The Third Trimester & My Pregnancy Favorites

    August 19, 2022

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    November 27, 2022
  • 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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    July 2, 2023

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

    July 9, 2022

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    April 17, 2023
  • 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…

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    July 2, 2023

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  • Budějovice,  Daily Life,  Life Abroad,  Spring,  Thoughts

    The Moments That Remind Me Why I’m Here

    April 27, 2022 /

    I’m on my way back from a lesson with a student (who is also my friend, gynecologist, etcetera, etcetera) where I’ve just successfully got her to use the present perfect unasked for the first time, and it’s a moody but refreshingly cool spring day. The clouds are sort of shifty characters and look like rain could spring forth from them at any minute. Without thinking much about it, other things on my mind, I cross the blue bridge across the river where one of my favorite spots in Budejovice is. I like it because it reminds me of the banks of the Seine in Paris. But you know, in southwestern…

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    February 3, 2020
    Bad Ischl

    An Austrian Alpine Holiday

    January 4, 2020

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    May 14, 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…

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    January 25, 2014

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    December 20, 2019

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    November 14, 2021
  • 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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    Late Spring / Early Summer

    June 25, 2020

    Summer, Lately + Prague Eats!

    July 11, 2021

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

    July 9, 2022
  • Czech Republic,  Life Abroad,  Pandemic,  South Bohemia,  Spring,  Thoughts

    My Up and Down (Will it? Won’t it?) Vaccination Week

    May 16, 2021 /

    I have mentioned in what feels like every recent posts that the vaccination roll-out in Europe is sloooooow. In the Czech Republic up until now, it really felt like it could not be worse. Not even did it take until March before I actually heard of people I know getting vaccinated (then, just doctors or the elderly), there were reports left and right about how difficult it was for foreigners to get vaccinated. Whether it was that their foreign-sounding name didn’t fit into the system, or their private health insurance (not the public state insurance that Czechs use) was not an option when registering. I spent March and April in…

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

    July 19, 2020

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    June 24, 2021

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    October 8, 2020
  • Daily Life,  Pandemic,  Spring,  Thoughts

    How I Come Alive Again

    May 7, 2021 /

    Hello friends, happy May wishes. Although writing here hasn’t been a priority here lately, you know I’ll always be coming back ’round to this space. We last talked a month ago right after Easter. All month long I was calling April “Second March” or “The Marchiest April Ever” which is nooooot a compliment. March is typically my least favorite month and now I probably will always think about it as “Corona month” – the month when it all started. This end of winter and spring period was really, really tough, especially most of March and April. I had not been in a poorer condition than in the past ten years,…

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    My Winter Joys, Goals, & Other Things

    February 12, 2021

    Late Spring / Early Summer

    June 25, 2020

    Autumn Celebrations + A Delicious Drink {Recipe}

    November 14, 2021
  • czech culture,  Czech Republic,  Daily Life,  Easter,  Recipe,  Spring,  Thoughts

    Quiet Days & My First Easter Lamb Cake {Recipe}

    April 3, 2021 /

    Happy spring, I hope everyone’s made it through the other side of winter okay! We just had Daylight Savings Time (worth every minute of evening light, in my opinion) so the warmer days and lighter nights have made everything so much better. Sometimes I think I could be a winter person, finding the season more pleasant with each passing year. Then the first warmer, light days of the year come and it’s like, nah. It was another weird March. The virus is still raging around us here in Czechland, and in fact, the first half of the month, we were bound to our own municipalities. Fortunately just in time for…

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    July 19, 2020

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    November 14, 2021

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    December 12, 2021
  • Daily Life,  Lifestyle,  Thoughts

    Why We’re Reading (Or Not) During the Pandemic

    March 12, 2021 /

    Have your reading habits changed over the past year? I’ve heard that many people have been reading less than ever before, as this interesting Refinery 29 article states. Some people seem to find it hard to concentrate. As this isn’t my case, I wondered why that would be, and the article mentions that since last March, people’s thoughts seem to drift towards our current situation and what’s in the news or the lack of social contact we’ve been having. This leads to checking the news, doom-scrolling Twitter or checking up on friends online instead of picking up our books, perhaps. I know a big reader who has been playing Animal…

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

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