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An Unseasonably Warm October

October 29, 2006 By Dana Leave a Comment

Prague Park in the FallOctober has been wonderful this year. We’ve had a lot of sun and blue skies and very little rain. It has also been much warmer overall than you would expect at this time of year. You still see people walking around in short sleeves. Just two days ago, a 165-year old temperature record was broken in Prague where the temperature was measured at 20.6°C (69°F).

Prague parks and nature reserves are especially beautiful now when the fall colors are at their best. We went on a hike to Divoká Šárka yesterday and the scenery around the Džbán reservoir was stunning.

A noticeable drop in temperatures is forecasted starting tomorrow.

Daylight Saving Time Ends

October 29, 2006 By Dana Leave a Comment

The Daylight Saving Time ended last night when we moved our clocks back by an hour. It’s about 5:30 p.m. now and it’s pitch black. For the next two months, the days are going to continue to get shorter.

From Tesco with Love

October 27, 2006 By Dana Leave a Comment

I can’t help but point out another one of Kamal’s articles that we published on My Czech Republic this week. This one describes Kamal’s recent experience with the customer disservice – as I like to call the type of “service” that is still too easy to run into in the Czech Republic – at a Prague Tesco. Lo and behold, Kamal received a bouquet of flowers from Tesco the next day, with an apology and a dinner invitation. She sent it back with a note that said: “Prove that you have sent every single customer the same things.” Good job, girl!

Jagshemash?

October 26, 2006 By Dana 14 Comments

Here’s my discovery of the day: It is not Czech!

It really wasn’t making any sense to me. Whenever I’ve watched a Borat episode on HBO, I’ve wondered why Sacha Baron Cohen’s Kazakh character greets the viewers with the very Czech sounding Jagshemash. What does Kazakhstan have to do with the Czech Republic? Did Mr. Cohen decide to throw all those “Eastern Europeans” into one basket and make them all speak one language?

Today I discovered that the phrase is not meant to be Czech, but instead is supposed to be the Polish Jak się masz, which of course sounds very similar to Jak se máš. Ok then. So it isn’t Czech. Good. But why Polish??

There’s a Borat dictionary at Boyakasha.co.uk.

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