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January 2006

Languages (No Longer) Understood

January 12, 2006

I grew up in a country where the Czech and Slovak languages intermingled with each other. The government consisted of Czechs and Slovaks, movies were filmed in the Prague studio with Czech actors or the Bratislava studio with Slovak actors, news was read in either language. One of the most popular sports commentators was from [...]

Czech Pendolino Update

January 4, 2006

I previously posted about the new Czech high speed trains. They started running on December 11 and I wanted to provide an update. * There are both first class and second class cars on the trains. * Reservations are required. * It’s possible to purchase a ticket online at the official Czech Railways Pendolino site. [...]

Silvestr and After…

January 1, 2006

Happy New Year! 2006 is here and Jeff and I are slowly starting to get used to the new number. Our Silvestr (the Czech name for New Year’s Eve) was mellow. We made chlebíčky and jednohubky (small open-faced sandwiches and canapés), which are required on a Czech Silvestr night, put out some leftover Christmas cookies, [...]

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