June 24, 2006

When I was a little girl growing up in Czechoslovakia, tea was tea. Cheap black tea from China, India or Ceylon was all we could get. The container said “Čaj”. When you asked for tea, you knew what was coming. Those times are over. Capitalism arrived and brought with it all sorts of new things....  

Given my natural tendency to dwell on the negative (and inspired by a friend's blog), I decided that it would be in my benefit to try to focus on something positive. Over brunch a while back, I had a reality check: during the course of the meal, my conversation had consisted of bitching about almost every...  

Took forever to get here. After the game on Thursday I took the train back to Ingolstadt and our hotel. I fell asleep and missed my stop and ended up in Munich at 1AM. Next train back to Ingolstadt was at 4AM . I finally got back to the hotel at 6 and Quigley was there asleep in the lobby....he arrived too...  

South Bohemia,close to Ceske Budejovice       

Thanks to Tony Ozuna, last night’s show on Radio 1 managed to play music from all 16 countries moving on to the second round of the World Cup, and even managed to put in a few tracks from countries that were eliminated. The setlist follows below: Germany Truby Trio - Alegre 2004 feat. Marcia Montez...