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

  • 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…

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    Autumn Lockdown Feels Like

    November 25, 2020

    A Winter Cafe Day (with JORD)

    February 3, 2020

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    November 14, 2021
  • Germany,  Travel,  TravelTips

    Our Germany Travel Wish Lists

    May 2, 2020 /

    The Corona Age is heralding in a new phase of travel — domestic and local. No longer are we dreaming of going abroad this summer (okay, maybe just a little as there are rumors of the borders to Austria and Slovakia opening by July in some capacity – eyes are peeled) but it seems much safer, if you’re planning to do any travel this summer, to make that trip one of a local variety. What a great opportunity to start dreaming of places to go, then? My imagination had already started running wild when I made the 8 Places on my Czech Republic Wish List. But then Heather, a former…

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  • Czech Republic,  Travel,  TravelTips

    What My Czech Republic Travel List Looks Like These Days

    April 3, 2020 /

    And no… I’m not going to call it my Czech list. It’s been interesting to see that different people are coping with this pandemic situation in different ways. Some people are writing and communicating a lot more than usual. Some people prefer not to mention it and have pretty much stopped posting on social media. Everyone’s confused. Nobody knows how to plan anything anymore. I mean, when this headline came out (“Czech borders could be closed as long as two years”) came out earlier last week, many of us were bummed. Upon discussion with a few other people about this terrible two year announcement, most people think that the borders…

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    Life Lately: And That Was Autumn With a Baby

    November 27, 2022

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

    May 14, 2020

    Where to Stay In Prague

    June 24, 2021
  • Czech Republic,  Daily Life,  Travel,  TravelTips,  Winter

    Surviving March + Thoughts on Traveling “These Days”

    March 11, 2020 /

    Ahoj, friends. I spent much of February reading the novel, Station Eleven. I didn’t know what it was about at all when I picked it up as it was part of a book club, but man — this one was a doozy! It dealt with the topic of a worldwide influenza pandemic (not a spoiler) and really got me thinking about what I would do if the same situation happened to us now. Every night I would read a little bit before going to bed, wake up and read the news and feel like it was all starting to blur together. The timing of this read was all a bit…

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    Babymoon in Moravia

    April 23, 2022

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

    May 12, 2016

    Valentine’s Day in Prague

    February 21, 2020
  • Czech Republic,  Prague,  TravelTips,  Winter

    Valentine’s Day in Prague

    February 21, 2020 /

    Even though this is my eighth winter in the Czech Republic, I still have never spent Valentine’s Day in Prague before. Valentine’s Day isn’t even the traditional Czech “day of love” (that would be the 1st of May) but you can’t deny that it is certainly has completely caught on! I know it’s a divisive day, with the main criticism that it is too commercialized, but my feeling is that it is whatever you want it to be. And who doesn’t love a chance to go celebrate a day of love and togetherness with someone special? After working (even during our half-term break! More on that in the next post…)…

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    8 Peculiar Czech Cultural Habits (& Book Giveaway!)

    May 28, 2022

    A Little Post about Olomouc, Czech Republic

    October 11, 2021

    On Silencing the Noise

    April 20, 2020
  • Bad Ischl
    Austria,  Budějovice,  Christmas,  TravelTips,  Winter

    An Austrian Alpine Holiday

    January 4, 2020 /

    As it’s the last weekend of the holiday season, so a perfect opportunity to share a little bit about 2019’s holiday season and our Christmas spent in the Salzkammergut. Before we left, we had a nice relaxing weekend wrapping up the work year and taking in some tunes and last punches in our beautiful square. On our way home from doing some Saturday morning errands, I noticed a tree in the park near our house full of fruits and things tied on with a sign. (Below, with the message “Christmas tree for homeless people – Have a beautiful Christmas”) I love when whimsy and kindness intersect and to see this…

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    This Festive Season

    December 20, 2019

    Language Progress + Thoughts on Solo Travel

    November 21, 2019

    Das Sommerhaus (Getting to Know Vienna)

    July 17, 2021
  • Life Abroad,  Travel,  Yearly Recap

    Year of Life & Travels: 2019

    December 28, 2019 /

    Hello all! Hope you had beautiful holidays if you were celebrating! The Czech celebrating period seems to go for about two weeks so I am still enjoying the beautiful downtime, lit candles, all of our decorations and tree – this time is honestly one of my absolute favorites of the whole year, even though Christmas is over. We’ve just had a nice holidays in the Salzkammergut lake region of Austria, not very far at all from Salzburg (but in the smaller villages). I will post about it soon but I wanted to get to the annual and much anticipated (by me, if nobody else) ‘Year in Life and Travels’, 2019…

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

    May 14, 2020

    Surviving March, Pt. II: Embracing #MaskLife

    March 21, 2020

    Photo an Hour – An October Weekday

    October 20, 2019
  • Austria,  Christmas,  czech culture,  Life Abroad,  Thoughts,  Winter

    This Festive Season

    December 20, 2019 /

    Sometimes people ask me if I’m going back to the States for Christmas and the answer always seems to be… no. Don’t get me wrong, I deeply enjoy being back in my hometown for the holidays, away from the big city bustle. Every year when we would get on that on-ramp away from Seattle, there was something incredibly peaceful about driving north on I-5 and watching the sprawl slip away. Driving around the island on Christmas Day, Sufjan Stevens‘ album always playing on the car stereo. The white skies, tall evergreens, the sea. Again, I have to use the word peaceful, but a certain, specific peace only this kind of…

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    Das Sommerhaus (Getting to Know Vienna)

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    Bad Ischl

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    January 4, 2020

    Language Progress + Thoughts on Solo Travel

    November 21, 2019
  • Austria,  Autumn,  Language Learning,  Thoughts,  Travel

    Language Progress + Thoughts on Solo Travel

    November 21, 2019 /

    “That was a really good lesson. I felt like we sort of… are getting it now, you know?” A moment Alex and I shared after our Czech lesson today. We started taking Czech language seriously in autumn 2015 – that means it’s been now over four years of really studying the language. Before that, I had taken a couple classes sporadically the year I first arrived although they didn’t amount to much as I was a total beginner in a class with people who clearly had some sort of grasp on the language and a teacher who couldn’t explain Czech grammar in my native tongue. Four years of serious study!…

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    Bad Ischl

    An Austrian Alpine Holiday

    January 4, 2020

    This Festive Season

    December 20, 2019

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    July 17, 2021
  • Czech Republic,  Prague,  Travel,  TravelTips

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

    May 12, 2016 /

    prague is now europe’s fifth most visited city as of 2016, surpassed by only london, paris, istanbul, and rome. so chances are, if you haven’t already been, you might be planning on going to prague soon, especially since summer’s coming up. i get a few emails and comments about what to do in prague, and man, that’s a hard question to answer in an email, let alone a comment! so! consider this post my e-mail to you about my favorite things and places to visit in the city.  this is by no means an exhaustive guide (hah) but rather just my favorite places that i’ve been to loads of times and like…

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    October, Lately

    October 15, 2020

    What My Czech Republic Travel List Looks Like These Days

    April 3, 2020

    Autumn Celebrations + A Delicious Drink {Recipe}

    November 14, 2021
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