August 24, 2007

From www.abcprague.com :UNESCO warns Prague: if the new skyscrapers, which are planned to be built in Pankrac and Holesovice quarters, affect negatively Prague´s panorama, the city might be deleted from the UNESCO´s World Heritage List.  

Having grown up in the United States of America I am prone to boredom. Itrsquos part of my cultural DNA. I see this now. I never noticed it before but now that I have been in the Czech Republic for almost a yearhellipI see it. We have so many things to occupy and soften our minds in the states that our...  

Many statues of important personalities, that used to stand in the streets of Prague, have disappeared during the eventful history.However, since 1989, the statues return slowly to their previous places. One of them is the statue of American president Woodrow Wilson, that will stand in front of Prague Main Railway Station again.  

The impact that German culture had in Prague and the whole country was enormous, in many areas. Let me mention only several cases. There used to be a German market place on Porici street, established at the end of the 11th Century. This was important mainly for its status: it was granted three basic rights,...  

Ice hockey is one of the most popular sports in the Czech Republic. The Czech Republic belongs to 64 members of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) and since 1993, when Czechoslovakia split, the Czech national ice hockey team has had 5 gold, 1 silver and 3 bronze medals from the Ice Hockey World...  

The long-awaited new play Leaving (Odchazeni) by Vaclav Havel, the ex-president of the Czech Republic, might be staged in Divadlo Na Zabradli (Theater on the Balustrade). It was planned to stage it in the National Theater in Prague, but reportedly there are disagreements about the cast of the play.  

I rented a FlatI'm calling it my Harry potter flat cause it's kind of small but I love it I'll be sure to post pictures of it soon.Also today I saw some of the best things ever... first were the Segways being driven around by girls in bikinis....It must be a new promotional thing and it looks amazingThe...