August 27, 2008

SaturdayI woke up early to pack for Prague. We saw that a train was leaving at 10am so we decided to meet at 915 to make it to the station to buy our tickets. We hopped on the train finding a cabin that was only occupied by one person so far. The lady in the cabin was from Australia specifically from the...  

This event definitely belongs to one of the saddest in the Czechoslovak history. This year it has been 40 years since that terrible moment when Czechoslovakia was invaded by its allies – GDR, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, and the USSR. A vast number of the troops were, however, from the USSR. On August 21st...  

On the 21st of August 1968, Czechoslovakia was invaded by the troops of Warsaw-Pact. It was a shock for the whole world. No one could believe that Czechoslovakia, which was an ally of the USSR, was actually attacked by the Soviets. Doesn’t it sound strange even nowadays? Czechoslovak “friends” and...  

a entry by LisaC from a trip to Prague, Czech Republic. We’ve been in Prague for 24 hours now, enough time to begin to appreciate both the beauty and the sometime suffocating crowds of this enchanting city. Our apartment is the renovated top floor of a large building just around the...