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

  • Week in Review

    Week 5 & 6 of 2024 (In Review)

    February 12, 2024 /

    It’s nearly mid-February and I’m feeling the urge to settle as deep as possible into winter before March, when it still is very much winter but everyone seems to have spring on their minds. February is still true winter so I’m embracing the hot chocolates, movies, diving into books, flannel pajamas and plentiful cups of tea and coffee. Our little M suffered from a a particularly wretched cold in Week 5 so we kept our activities to almost nothing besides some daily fresh air. You feel so bad for the little ones who don’t know how to blow their nose! Fortunately that’s done and we’ve been able to do our…

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

    July 20, 2024

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

    June 27, 2024

    Week 49-52 of 2024 (Year in Review) – Year of Life and Travels

    January 12, 2025
  • Lifestyle

    The Books of 2023 (Annual Book Post!)

    February 3, 2024 /

    It took me ’til February, but here it is! This was a great reading year for me, if 32 books with a 3.9 star (out of 5) average says anything about the it. It was a fantastic mix of memoirs, non-fiction, engaging novels and a sprinkling of parenting books thrown in for good measure. No book clubs or anything mucking up my choices (although they can be really fun sometimes). Mostly I read while breastfeeding on my Kindle but being able to read in bed again at night also helped a lot — man have I missed it! Here’s a sampling of the best of them… and really there were…

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

    November 11, 2023

    Photo an Hour – An October Weekday

    October 20, 2019

    My Winter Joys, Goals, & Other Things

    February 12, 2021
  • Week in Review,  Winter

    Week 3 & 4 of 2024 (In Review)

    January 28, 2024 /

    Last week was a light and abundant week of loads of baby activities. We visited two different baby cafes and the time outside the house (when we finally manage it!) always feels good for both of us, I think. If you’re not sure what I mean by “baby cafes”, these are entire cafe spaces completely dedicated to babies and toddlers. There is usually play equipment, things to climb on and loads of toys strewn about while also having tables and chairs for mamas to have a coffee and chat. There is a cover charge per child over one year old (usually). We are so lucky to have three or four…

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

    June 27, 2024

    Week 13, 14 & 15 of 2024 (In Review) – Easter & April Heatwave

    April 21, 2024

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

    July 20, 2024
  • Daily Life,  Week in Review,  Winter

    Week 1 & 2 of 2024 (In Review)

    January 14, 2024 /

    I’m trying something new this year. Every week (or two) I’m writing in just to document the usual daily life stuff that went on this year, my last year on maternity leave. This might just be mostly text, not a lot of photos, but the point is just to document the little things in an effort to blog more. Let’s see how it goes. It was another quiet New Year’s Eve night for us new parents, eating nachos and watching The Big Fat Quiz of the Year while baby slumbered, and I’d been anxious (for months!) about him waking thanks to the war-zone-like New Years’ fireworks around the city center.…

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

    February 12, 2025

    The Saturday of Summer

    July 31, 2020

    A Winter Cafe Day (with JORD)

    February 3, 2020
  • Life Abroad,  Travel,  Winter,  Yearly Recap

    A Year of Life & Travels: 2023

    January 7, 2024 /

    Here we are at the beginning of another bright new year! These yearly recap posts are my absolute favorites to read (on other blogs) so I hope you will enjoy catching up with my year and seeing little Mouse grow before your eyes! It was a big year for our little family and we are so lucky to have had the travel opportunities we did! If you’re on the fence, I cannot recommend traveling with a baby this age enough, truly. New Year’s Day, January 1st, 2023 was unbelievably warm – we’re talking 18°C (64°F)! We took a long walk with friends & no coats with our six month old…

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

    February 12, 2025

    Autumn Celebrations + A Delicious Drink {Recipe}

    November 14, 2021

    Week 45-48 of 2024 (Year in Review) – NOVEMBER + Reflecting on Being in the Czech Republic for 12 Years

    December 9, 2024
  • Autumn,  Baby,  Daily Life,  Lifestyle,  motherhood,  South Bohemia

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

    November 11, 2023 /

    Happy autumn! I thought a catch-up was overdue, so here’s what’s been going on with us lately here in South Bohemia – life on maternity leave with a seventeen-month old toddler. THINKING… When I get free time, my mind is just a jumble of the hundred things I have been wanting to do. Writing it down in my planner, a series of random papers or a Google Doc has been saving me. Right now, Mouse is have an unusually long midday nap and I’ve been frenetically choosing activities: have lunch, pay bills/life admin, weekend plans… but then “which learning tower should I buy?”, I need to plan Christmas things already!,…

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    Autumn Celebrations + A Delicious Drink {Recipe}

    November 14, 2021

    Life Lately: And That Was Autumn With a Baby

    November 27, 2022

    A Little Post about Olomouc, Czech Republic

    October 11, 2021
  • Baby,  Summer,  Yearly Recap

    Postcards from Summer

    October 14, 2023 /

    Well folks, it’s already the middle of October and the mornings have officially veered into “crispy” territory. The longer between posts, the harder it is to write because I feel like I have to catch the reader up on everything, but I also know that just writing is better than nothing at all, so here I am, talking about the summer our baby was one year old and what a special summer it was. July started off beautifully with our first visit to KVIFF (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival) as a family, complete with dog and baby. It was also our first festival after the pandemic, mostly because Alex wisely…

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

    July 9, 2022

    Week 19 & 20 of 2024 (In Review)

    May 24, 2024

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

    June 27, 2024
  • Baby,  Life Abroad,  Milestones,  motherhood,  Summer

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

    July 2, 2023 /

    We had a beautiful month of June here in South Bohemia. I have to say that I feel like I was so tired for at least half the month and had no idea why… until I realized that the allergy meds I am taking every other day for hay fever make me terribly drowsy. I am quite ready for allergy season to be over (still sneezing) but at least June was spent in a dreamy sort of daze. It started with a beautiful choir concert performed at a little festival in an apple orchard near Lišov. What an amazing setting and reminder (just when I really needed it) of how…

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    Life Lately: And That Was Autumn With a Baby

    November 27, 2022

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

    February 12, 2025

    The Third Trimester & My Pregnancy Favorites

    August 19, 2022
  • 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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    Postcards from Summer

    October 14, 2023

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

    July 9, 2022

    Week 19 & 20 of 2024 (In Review)

    May 24, 2024
  • Czech Republic,  Language Learning,  Life Abroad

    To Pass or Not to Pass: An Evergreen Language-Learning Struggle

    April 28, 2023 /

    It is getting more and more embarrassing to tell people that we have been living in the Czech Republic for a whole decade… generally, because of the state of our Czech language ability. That is not to say that it is absolutely poor exactly… it’s just not… “living there ten years” quality. The other week our baby’s cardiologist said, when I reminded him that we usually speak English together, replied with a benign but just as soul-piercing, “oh sorry, I forgot that you don’t speak any Czech”. Ouch! I got through sixteen days in Czech hospital and can’t bother to try during one doctor appointment? Now, I am a language…

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    Autumn Lockdown Feels Like

    November 25, 2020

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

    July 20, 2024

    October, Lately

    October 15, 2020
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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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