June 9, 2006

Prague is hellip very cool. The Czech people are easygoing and eager to show off their beautiful city. We took a tour of the most important historical and cultural sites and buildings toured the castle grounds tried new foods and failed miserably at speaking Czech but really enjoyed our brief stay in Prague....  

Thomayer hospital prepared 7th June event for healthy kids of elementary schools and nurseries with a subheading “We are play the doctor.” This event combined entertaining day with interesting didactic parts. The goal was...  

Minister of Defence Karel Kühnl signed a large contract to in amount 24 milliards CZK. Czech Army as a member of NATO bought 199 armoured transporters by Austrian ammunition factory Steyr. This contract is bigger than hiring twelve Sweden interceptors Gripen.  

A special police car modified for drunk people can “celebrate” 1000th “customer”. Municipal police of Prague uses this car for transporting drunk and soused people to a sobering-up station. 1000th transported drunken was a 49 years old...  

Yesterday was St. Medard Day and as the saying goes, “Medardova kápě čtyřicet dní kape” (Medard’s cape drips for forty days). I found the saying in English as well: “Should St. Medard’s Day be wet, it will rain for forty yet”. This Medard guy is usually pretty...  

In the middle of the April two of crooked mirrors were broken by some people in Petrin mirror maze. Now the mirrors are back, the new one was installed yesterday. The replacement cost thirty thousand crowns. It takes so much time, because it was difficult to ...  

The law which prohibits smoking at train platforms and at tram and bus stops is in validity from 1st January 2006. 750 000 CZK in fines is a large number, but is seems that this new law has no effect. The number of smokers at stations is ...  

New seat for Prague town council will be in Jungmannova street. The City hall has signed a occupational lease for 20 years in a cost 204,5 millions Czech crowns. Many parts of city council was in a large numbers of buildings, a majority of fragments will be at one place ...  

The Lagre Fürstenbersk gardens is a part of Poland embassy and tourists can see it from Old Royal Stairs – they just need to look down. These gardens are now under revitalization. The gardens will be separated from the embassy by a wall, the entrance from the stairs will be re-opened and new access will be also made from the below of the garden to Valdstejnska street...  

496 milliards Czech crowns is a loss of CSA from last year. It was expected 521 millions profit. The trade union says that a principal is management led by Jaroslav Tvrdik, former Minister of the Defence. He was to CSA instituted by CSSD Party during ...  

Petr Cech (Peter Czech ;-) was voted as a best Czech football player for this year. A winner of The Gold Ball trophy is voted by Czech sport journalists. Petr Cech won this prize last year. Petr Cech, Czech goalkeeper in the National team in coming World cup is also the best goalkeeper of ...