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Today morning on March 19th, 2009 I have woken up and see behind the window snow is falling. Our garden, trees, cars, streets has been covered by snow. I have remembered an old tramping song from my youth “We expected spring, but the frost came instead of…”

I was a bit skeptical to this exposition, under prejudice: it could not overcome the provincialism of our small suburb of Prague.  In spite of that I suggested to my family,  let us go to a walk to recently repaired castle Chvaly, Horni Pocernice, Prague 9. The reality was opposite. On the beginning the permanent [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

The idea to go to New Year Eve for skiing to mountains was accepted by my wife and daughter too.  And the anticipation, that it would not be crowded, was right. In the last years we get used like short time trips to the closest real pistas: before noon we set out to the journey [...]

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.