November 3, 2006

Well, actually, Czech “Halloween” is not celebrated on October 31st but November 2nd. Another difference is that Czech kids do not get dressed in costumes on that particular night. And also nobody is going door-to-door collecting sweets. Yes, I know that now you may thing that I am crazy, because...  

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Contemporary Spanish dance will be introduced in Prague at the festival called “Madrid baila en Praga”. The festival will show various styles of Spanish dance from dance theatres, inspirations by flamenco to performances for children.  

New exposition given by Czech National Bank (CNB) can be seen in the former bank vault in the city centre of Prague. The exhibition is devoted to people and money – it shows the history of money from flints to digital money and microchips.  

New decoration of Old Town Bridge Tower have to be done because of the poor state of the statues at the frontage. The statues were made in the 70’s of the last century from low-class artificial stone and were badly damaged by the changing weather during the years.  

When I looked out of the window this morning, I gasped. There was snow, and a decent amount of it! True, it was freezing last night and the weather forecasters did predict the possibility of snow showers for the whole country, even in low elevations, even in Prague. But this is very early in the [...]  

So Prague is beautiful. We saw a great deal of the center of the city yesterday. The Castle. The Old Town Square. The Charles Bridge... Also the Mucha museum. Today we are going to take a tour of a concentration camp outside the city. This afternoon perhaps the commie museum or who knows. P.S. I think there...