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December 2005

A Blue Christmas Tree

December 7, 2005

The Christmas tree on Wenceslas Square is blue this year. I don’t mean that it has a bluish tone. And it’s not a blue spruce either. It’s not a spruce at all. It’s an artificial tree and when darkness falls, the flashing blue pyramid could be transported directly to the Vegas Strip. Someone must have [...]

They’re for Poop, Not for Lunch

December 6, 2005

Back in October, there was a discussion on the My Czech Republic message boards about Czechs and their dogs. It didn’t take long and the topic turned to dog owners leaving their animal friends’ poop unattended on the sidewalks. The city of Prague is trying to do good. It is now a common sight to [...]

Happy Mikuláš!

December 5, 2005

It’s St. Nicholas Day tomorrow, so Jeff and I went to look at the Old Town Square to see the Mikuláš processions (you can read more about the tradition here). It was more fun than I expected. We got there a little after 5 p.m. and things were slowly getting going. The first groups of [...]

Battle of Austerlitz Bicentennial

December 2, 2005

The 200th anniversary of the Battle of Austerlitz will be commemorated tomorrow near Brno. The famous battle in which the army of the French Emperor Napoleon I defeated the armies of the Russian Tsar Alexander I and the Austrian Emperor Francis I took place in the fields between Brno and the town of Slavkov u [...]

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