July 5, 2007
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Our Long Holiday Weekend
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The work week is over! Our neighborhood is quiet, people are gone enjoying a four-day weekend. July 5th and 6th are public holidays in the Czech Republic and they fall on Thursday and Friday this year. How perfect! Now what are these holidays all about? July 5th is the Day of Slavic Missionaries Cyril and...
Memorial of the Victims of Communism in Prague
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Maybe you have noticed memorial wreaths when walking around Petrin Hill in Prague lately. They are laid in front of the Memorial of the Victims of Communism. It is a truly magnificent memorial. A sad one, though. It is a modern memorial, from the year 2002. It contains seven “phases” of a man living in a...