Christopher's Expat Adventure

Oh good Lord!  I'm a bad Mexican-American.  I've been in Euroland so long that I forgot today was Cinco de Mayo.  I knew that tod...

Charles IV was the King of Bohemia and of the Holy Roman Empire.  He lived from 1316 to 1378.  He was born Václav ( Wenceslas ) but took t...

Sicily is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, located between Italy and Tunisia in North Africa .  Sicilia , and a few small surr...

Today is 1 May and it's a public holiday.  Today is also the 10th anniversary of Czech Republic joining the European Union. In 1952,...

I like buying the annual tram pass in Brno.  The yearly pass costs 4.750 Kč ($238) for unlimited transportation in Brno on all of the tram...

On Sunday, a few people came around so that we could celebrate Tünde's 1st birthday.  I can't believe that my beautiful goddaughter...

Our trip to Helsinki, St. Petersburg and Tallinn was great!   We had 11 days off and we thoroughly enjoyed them.  Now we just have to figur...

The Hotel Viru opened in Tallinn in 1972.  It was the first high-rise building in all of Estonia .  It was built by a...

Tallinn sits on the Gulf of Finland, 80 km (50 miles) south of Helsinki , and 324 km (201 miles) west of Saint Petersburg .  It is Estonia...