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

  • Baby,  Family Travel,  Spring,  Travel,  TravelTips

    Going to Rome With a Baby! Our Experience & Tips

    April 17, 2023 /

    Ciao, all! We had our first family vacation that was just the three of us last month. Sadly, Ferdie couldn’t come as we were headed to ROME, home to some of the best museums in the world and managing it with a dog plus a nine-month-old wasn’t the most relaxing-sounding thing. It was a wonderful trip! I’d been dreaming of returning to Italy for a long while now… and then the pandemic happened. As of last summer, things are running pretty normally in Italy and even though we couldn’t have our babymoon there as I wanted, it was so fun taking Baby M there and enjoying it as a family.…

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    The Third Trimester & My Pregnancy Favorites

    August 19, 2022

    Life Lately: And That Was Autumn With a Baby

    November 27, 2022

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

    July 9, 2022
  • Pregnancy,  Travel,  Yearly Recap

    Year of Life & Travels: 2022

    January 4, 2023 /

    2022 was such a big beautiful year, especially compared with the two that came before it. This was the year I finished out my first full school year (not online at all!) at my new place of work. I worked my little booty off, knowing it would be the end of my free time, earning both an Intermediate Certificate in Herbalism (two years of work!) in late April and a B2 Certificate (Upper-Intermediate) in German language achievement from the Goethe-Zentrum in early June. But obviously, the biggest thing – I spent the first half of the year growing a baby! In the middle of the year, giving birth, and the…

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

    July 9, 2022

    Babymoon in Moravia

    April 23, 2022

    The Third Trimester & My Pregnancy Favorites

    August 19, 2022
  • Czech Republic,  Easter,  Pregnancy,  Spring,  Travel

    Babymoon in Moravia

    April 23, 2022 /

    Over Easter weekend we returned again to South Moravia… the Napa Valley of the Czech Republic, if I may say so myself. We wanted to go somewhere within the Czech Republic for ease of travel and my first thought was somewhere beautiful that knocks off one of my “to see places” on my Czech travel list. Easy to do with Southern Moravia, a region so unlike any other in the country – the terrain seems to have more in common with parts of Austria or Slovenia than the rest of the republic. You’ll see plant and animal species you don’t see elsewhere, castle ruins on hilltops, dramatic sweeping landscapes, wineries…

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    A Little Post about Olomouc, Czech Republic

    October 11, 2021

    Late Spring / Early Summer

    June 25, 2020

    Surviving March, Pt. II: Embracing #MaskLife

    March 21, 2020
  • Christmas,  Travel,  Winter

    Cozy Christmas in the Cotswolds

    March 6, 2022 /

    I really did think I’d get to writing about our trip a little sooner than this, but there has been lots going on, which I hope to fill you in on soon! For now, as a fitting adieu to the winter season, we pick off where we left off, shortly before Christmas, picking up our rental car at Paddington Station and setting off westwards towards the Cotswolds – a beautiful natural area west of Oxford where you can find a network of picturesque villages and all the beautiful countryside you might imagine. When you leave London and head northwest, there are a number of nice places of touristic value that…

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    This Festive Season

    December 20, 2019

    A Time of Simple Holidays

    December 22, 2020
    Bad Ischl

    An Austrian Alpine Holiday

    January 4, 2020
  • Christmas,  Travel,  Winter

    The Holiday Season in London (Pandemic Edition)

    January 22, 2022 /

    Like I’m sure many travelers before me, the idea to spend Christmas in England came to me years ago upon a re-watch of The Holiday. How perfect could it be to spend the holidays in a cottage somewhere in the foggy countryside? I shared this vision with my family and in summer 2019, my mother announced that we were doing it! We were going to spend Christmas 2020 in England! Of course that wasn’t exactly good timing, but having already booked a cottage in the Cotswolds (an “area of outstanding natural beauty” just northwest of Oxford full of picturesque villages to explore) in early 2020 before the pandemic and unable…

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    Cozy Christmas in the Cotswolds

    March 6, 2022
    Bad Ischl

    An Austrian Alpine Holiday

    January 4, 2020

    A Time of Simple Holidays

    December 22, 2020
  • Autumn,  Czech Republic,  Travel,  TravelTips

    A Little Post about Olomouc, Czech Republic

    October 11, 2021 /

    We took a little “hello fall” trip at the end of September to Olomouc – a city in the Moravian region of the country (about five hours by train from Budejovice) that has long been on our travel list – a very handy thing to consult when you’re not sure what your next destination will be. A city break made the most sense seeing as the epidemiological situation at the moment wasn’t not bad and just in case it goes sideways again, it would be nice to spend time in a city. Also the fact that it is in a completely different area of the country was exciting – it’s…

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    Autumn Celebrations + A Delicious Drink {Recipe}

    November 14, 2021

    How Does Your Garden Grow

    November 7, 2019

    Little Cottage in the Woods

    October 8, 2020
  • 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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    Bad Ischl

    An Austrian Alpine Holiday

    January 4, 2020

    This Festive Season

    December 20, 2019

    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
  • Czech Republic,  Prague,  Travel,  TravelTips

    Where to Stay In Prague

    June 24, 2021 /

    You may know that accommodations are now open again all over the Czech Republic – we’ve even had our first overnight stay (in eight months!!) in nearby Český Krumlov last week which was just luscious. In the spirit of the re-opening of travel, I thought I’d put together this list of recommendable hostels and hotels I’ve stayed in on my many stays in Prague, from super budget to splurge plus some details about why you might want to stay in that specific neighborhood, whether it’s your first time in Prague or tenth. HOTELS The Archibald (Kampa Island, Mala Strana, Prague 1) $$$ What I like about the Archibald is that…

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    Autumn Lockdown Feels Like

    November 25, 2020

    8 Peculiar Czech Cultural Habits (& Book Giveaway!)

    May 28, 2022

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

    July 19, 2020
  • Summer,  Travel,  TravelTips

    Croatia in a Pandemic Summer

    August 24, 2020 /

    Hi, friends. How have you been enjoying the summer? It’s funny that the biggest hindrance to writing new posts these days involves the photo part — uploading them from my finicky phone (or rather, from my new phone to my finicky old computer), editing them, rounding other random snaps from Google Photo. It’s 2020 – you’ve got to think there’s a better way? (or likely there is, and I’m far too stubborn) But regardless, here we are! We spent much of August in Croatia this year. Like many who were able to travel this summer, I wasn’t sure how much I wanted to post about it on social media. In…

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    Adventurings, 2.0

    September 29, 2019

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

    July 9, 2022

    Summer, Lately + Prague Eats!

    July 11, 2021
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adventurings is a blog by cynthia, an american living in the czech republic.

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