Christopher's Expat Adventure

This week was another business trip to Frankfurt , Germany .  From Brno it's about a seven hour drive to Frankfurt. David, Slavek, Marti...

Germany launched its new Deutschlandticket, or D-Ticket, as the successor to its €9 ticket . The new €49 ticket began on 1 May, and it'...

While in Berlin last week, for the Johannes Oerding concert , we wanted to visit Museuminsel , the Museum Island.  It's a complex of fi...

Back in 2020, for Christmas, I gave concert tickets to Tünde, for the three of us to see Johannes Oerding  at the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Feb...

Tchibo , pronounced CHEE BO, is one of Germany's largest retail chains.  The stores are interesting.  It's a café where you can get ...

Last year, Time Out  magazine published their list of the 16 best city breaks in Europe for 2022.  Brno came in second place.   This year B...

This evening we met up with a few people for dinner at our favourite sushi place on Bölscherstraße .  Afterwards it was on the beach at Mügg...

Germany reunified more than 30 years ago but there are still differences, cultural and economic differences, between between what used to ...

A few years ago, Nat introduced me to Atlas Obscura .  It's an American website that was founded in 2009.  It doesn't list the usua...

Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine , Czech Republic was the first EU country to stop issuing visas to Russian citizens except for h...

My 2000th blog post.  I can't believe that I've been at this for over 13 years or that people still seem interested in my Czechland ...

The Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia , Protektorát Čechy a Morava , was established on 16 March 1939 and lasted until the surrender of Na...