Archive for 'General'
How to register car in Prague. Step by step.
One of the other steps I had to explore on my way for independence was registering of my car which I bought as a used from my former employer. The source in Czech on Internet was not simple and I spent out some hours by studying and by exploring the issue on offices. Not only [...]
By: Standa - Posted: Thursday February 26th, 2009 at 08:42 PM
Category: Prague, General.
Tags: Czech, Prague
Comments: 114
Bad weather in winter Prague: going to aquapark? And what about kids?
What to do on free weekend in Prague when your plan for skiing in close mountains had been broken by the bad weather. On the last weekend we try to explore a relatively new aquapark in Cestlice, near Pruhonice, on east suburb of the Prague. The impression was in the end positive, it looks as [...]
By: Standa - Posted: Sunday February 15th, 2009 at 03:52 PM
Category: Prague, General, Sport.
Tags: Prague, Sport
Comments: 306
Norway by lowcost flight: skiing, ice skateing, ice climbing
There is the tip for a cheap shorter trip to Norway for skiing and other winter sports what I have got today via Skype from my friend Mysak who returned recently from there back to London where he lives. I have checked Internet and have found quite good return flights from Prague to Oslo e.g. [...]
By: Standa - Posted: Sunday January 18th, 2009 at 11:26 PM
Category: Travel, Climbing, General, Sport.
Tags: Travel, Climbing, Sport
Comments: 208
Is the new Opencard in Prague easy?
Prague municipal transportation launched new chip card for traveling and other services. It is the only method one can use for buying one year ticket. I entered to the process of application of the card and learned that it not easy at all. Several weeks before end of the year there were long queues in [...]
By: Standa - Posted: Thursday January 8th, 2009 at 10:32 PM
Category: Travel, General.
Tags: Czech, Travel, Prague
Comments: 292
C+M+B+ 2009: Three Kings in Czech on snow
White morning has started today the Three Kings day in Prague. Look at the snowy street number of our house, the number which was the inspiration for the domain of this website . According to the Czech tradition on Three Kings Day (Magi Day) children walk door to door in masks of Three Kings, sing [...]
By: Standa - Posted: Tuesday January 6th, 2009 at 10:51 PM
Category: General.
Tags: Czech, Tradition
Comments: 197
Ice skating in Czech
Ice skating is quite popular in Czech Republic. Any when the frosts come, people take out ice skates and hockey sticks and almost every pond is full of folks. May be just there for Czechs are the nation of hockey star Jaromir Jagr.
By: Standa - Posted: Sunday January 4th, 2009 at 04:42 PM
Category: General, Sport.
Tags: Czech, Sport
Comments: 287
PF 2009
All the best in New Year 2009!
There is the PF card representing us a little bit. The picture has been taken in Corsica in some our family trip. The view is in locality of southern town Bonifacio, same as the picture in head of layout of this site.
By: Standa - Posted: Wednesday December 31st, 2008 at 09:10 AM
Category: Travel, General.
Tags: Travel, France
Comments: 162
Christmas according to the Czechs
Czech families celebrate Christmas on December 24th and in the center of the event is the Baby Jesus called in Czech “Jezisek” (say something like: Yesheesheck) who is imaginary person who gives presents under the Christmas tree.
By: Standa - Posted: Wednesday December 24th, 2008 at 11:51 PM
Category: General.
Tags: Czech, Tradition
Comments: 250
Why 3six77.com?
The name was created according to the number of our house. That is 666/77. Devils number, but just in coincidence we got it from our local administrative. And when we couple years ago looked for domain for our internet experiments this one was free. Anywhere we are interested in internet publication activities, photos, video, traveling [...]
By: Standa - Posted: Friday November 14th, 2008 at 10:21 PM
Category: General.
Tags: Travel, Internet
Comments: 127