March 12, 2007

On Sunday we found spring had really arrived. I'll start at the end and end at the beginning of the day. Bill and I got on the 18 tram and rode to the old botanical garden that I was longing to see. Last spring on a lovely evening Emerys and Sarah walked through this garden with us. That was much later in...  

The oldest and most popular bridge in Prague, Charles Bridge, with valuable statues have been damaged several times. Pieces of statues were broken or torn off by unknown vandals. The situation should be better by the end of March.  

Last week, on Wednesday, March 7, I went to see Career days program, and what was is my impression of it? Ok, first, Career days is kind of a meeting of students with companies, their potential and possible employers. Did anyone hear about it? Did anyone go? This meeting was held in Prague Congress Center,...  

Holga is "toy camera" from Hong-kong. I lent it from my friend and went for short walk close to area I live. I took 11 pictures and some from there I want to share with you.I used B&W film Fomapan 120 ISO 400. F8 and 1/100. It is impossible to sharp :) Vysočany is former industrial area, where one of the...  

The city has a special system for illuminating the monuments of Prague. The illumination starts with the oldest monuments to the youngest in the interval of 3 minutes. Vysehrad is illuminated first, Cechuv bridge from the 19th century the last.  

Although American people do not need visas to travel to the Czech Republic, Czech people travelling to the USA have to apply for visas before departure. The process is very long and tiring. Now it seems that Czech will travel without visas by January 2009.