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

  • Czech Republic,  Thoughts,  Winter

    Living Through the Pandemic, One Year Out

    February 27, 2021 /

    It was nearly a year ago that the very first Coronavirus case showed up here in the Czech Republic. About ten days later, our lives would suddenly be disrupted when it was announced, after an emergency Tuesday morning parliamentary session that schools would close, effective the next day. Those early times — from the end of winter last year through the spring, all of our lives changed. Everyone was scared and uncertain, and despite what we would consider now to be very low case levels, I did not meet with another soul for almost two months. Absolutely nothing in-person took place. As spring gave way to summer, we saw cases…

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

    May 14, 2020

    Year of Life & Travels: 2020

    December 31, 2020

    Little Cottage in the Woods

    October 8, 2020
  • Christmas,  Daily Life,  South Bohemia,  Winter

    A Time of Simple Holidays

    December 22, 2020 /

    Well, it’s hard to write anything without a computer, isn’t it? Fortunately I feel like I have an office again, a little home again, and my brain can sort of organize itself properly. (Note: Try to avoid ever having to purchase a new computer in mid-December. It is not the time.) Here we are in December, finally at the tail end of 2020. Funny about this year. As I’ve now been quite settled in České Budějovice for nearly eight years and counting, there isn’t a lot of expat stuff or cultural differences that I feel compelled to write about. Most of it is no longer so novel. Add to that…

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    This Festive Season

    December 20, 2019
    Bad Ischl

    An Austrian Alpine Holiday

    January 4, 2020
  • Autumn,  Czech Republic,  Lifestyle

    Little Cottage in the Woods

    October 8, 2020 /

    Even though the weather forecast for our early autumn cottage holiday weekend looked comically grim, there wasn’t a thought in my mind to cancel. We’d been hoping to go for an unplugged, off-the-grid weekend since late summer, but after returning from Croatia in August, we decided it would be much better appreciated if we waited until the long weekend at the end of September. Fortunately I packed for the cold — lots of woolly knits — and I’m so glad I did because it just did not stop raining. We arrived in the dark on Friday evening to pouring rain, which continued straight until early Sunday morning. When you stay…

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    How Does Your Garden Grow

    November 7, 2019

    It’s November (Life Lately)

    November 2, 2019

    Photo an Hour – An October Weekday

    October 20, 2019
  • czech culture,  Czech Republic,  Daily Life

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

    July 19, 2020 /

    When you live across the world from family and you have a dog, you can pretty much just plan on bringing your dog everywhere with you. Face it – you have little other choice. (I love my dog, but I’m not bringing him everywhere because I necessarily have to have him near me) This was the first consideration we had when deciding which breed – it had to be small and incredibly portable. Also, it helped that we knew from four years of experience living here just how dog friendly the Czech Republic really is. If we had to bring our dog everywhere, there is no better country to do…

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    Autumn Lockdown Feels Like

    November 25, 2020

    This Festive Season

    December 20, 2019
  • Czech Republic,  Film,  Karlovy Vary

    Looking Back on KVIFF: Film Festival Memories

    July 6, 2020 /

    It doesn’t really feel like summer in the Czech Republic for us without KVIFF – the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. We’ve been attending nearly every year since we arrived here and as you may have guessed, they made the wise decision to cancel what would have been the 55th edition taking place this week. It hasn’t all been a no-film doom and gloom scenario, though. As I’ve raved about on social media, KVIFF participated in the We Are One Global Film Festival in late May, along with something like sixteen other festivals (such as Cannes, Venice, Toronto, Berlin, etc) and it was such an incredibly enriching experience to have…

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    Autumn Lockdown Feels Like

    November 25, 2020

    My Winter Joys, Goals, & Other Things

    February 12, 2021

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

    May 14, 2020
  • Czech Republic,  Daily Life,  South Bohemia,  Spring,  Summer

    Late Spring / Early Summer

    June 25, 2020 /

    Happy happy summer! I’ve been celebrating the arrival of this ever joyous season with cafe days, double scoops of ice cream, trip planning and rediscovering the joy of reading outdoors in the warm, sun-filled evenings (above) when we are lucky enough to have them! It comes in such a short window every year that I sort of forget about it until it happens. There’s been a literal stack of books I’ve been trying to get through as a part of two book club (“reading circles”) I’ve been participating in… reminding me how nice it would just be to pluck a book from the shelf and read what I felt like.…

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    Valentine’s Day in Prague

    February 21, 2020

    Year of Life & Travels: 2020

    December 31, 2020

    My Winter Joys, Goals, & Other Things

    February 12, 2021
  • 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
    Bad Ischl

    An Austrian Alpine Holiday

    January 4, 2020

    A Winter Cafe Day (with JORD)

    February 3, 2020
  • Czech Republic,  Easter,  Minimalism,  Spring,  Thoughts

    On Silencing the Noise

    April 20, 2020 /

    If there’s anything that has come of this whole self-isolation (today, April 20th being Day 38 for me), it’s that I envy the heck out of people’s sunny backyards and garden spaces. I am ever so grateful to live in a flat with a nice balcony, but not having my own outdoor space is a hard pill to swallow during these times. I suppose it’s inevitable when you want to do and see everything, when you want to live everywhere. I was lucky enough to grow up with a huge backyard at my disposal. In the nicer months, there wasn’t a day I wasn’t out there. I never realized until…

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    October, Lately

    October 15, 2020

    Looking Back on KVIFF: Film Festival Memories

    July 6, 2020

    Little Cottage in the Woods

    October 8, 2020
  • 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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    May 14, 2020

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    July 6, 2020

    Little Cottage in the Woods

    October 8, 2020
  • Czech Republic,  Life Abroad,  Spring,  Thoughts

    Surviving March, Pt. II: Embracing #MaskLife

    March 21, 2020 /

    Well, that escalated quickly. From the time I published the my last post on March 11th, the day after the first of our emergency measures (which was the school closure announcement), only ten days ago, the situation in the world has devolved rapidly (I predict ten days from now at the end of the month, we’ll be able to say that once more, sadly). No longer are people even speaking about traveling (and if they are, they shouldn’t be). I have since learned new Czech words necessary to understand for everyday life that I haven’t had to know before, like vláda (governance), nouzový stav (emergency measure), and omezení (restriction). Where…

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    April 20, 2020

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    April 3, 2020
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