February 15, 2008

Eleven weeks till baby launch and still he swims, nameless, in the belly.Actually he’s not swimming any more, he’s a tightly packed in fellow by today. I can tell when he’s awake and wants to suck his thumb: he elbows me politely as if to say, “Oh, pardon, could I just move my arm a tad? Right, that...  

The National Theatre in Prague has three artistic divisions – Ballet, Opera and Drama. As dramas featured here are in Czech language, for those who cannot speak Czech would be interesting just Opera and Ballet, but anyway in those two fields the theatre has a lot to offer. Operas are sung mostly in Italian...  

The first form of photography emerged as a result of the work of Jacques Mande Daguerre. The technique, patented in 1839 as daguerreotype, used light for permanent projection of an image on a solid material- the word itself, photography, is derived form the Greek words for to write and light. The technique...  

This morning I went to Jessiersquos bed and shouted obscenities in Czech in ear in order to get her awake. After I paid for that mistake we headed out for our first sightseeing day. We went straight for Prague castlemdash again in torrents of rain. It was pretty amazing with views of the city and its red...  

My family asked me that question many times before our trip began. Well we were asking it too this morning when my roommates just a few hours after finishing packing were getting up and getting us up in the process. I booked an early evening flight to Prague to give Jessie plenty of sleep after her marathon...