Christopher's Expat Adventure

PF 2016!!  Šťastný nový rok!! I'm really not quite sure where the year went but it just flew by.  Another great year over here...

It's been a busy month with lots going on but I managed to find a new flat .  It's in Stránice in the Masarykova čtvrť (Masaryk Qu...

Polská krev (Polish Blood) is considered to be the most popular and most played Czech opera.  It was composed by Oskar Nedbal and it was f...

©National Geographic Yesterday, six experts from Brno's Masaryk University left on an annual expedition to Antarctica.  The scient...

I'm not sure what's going on but we've had really heavy fog in Brno for the last 5 days and nights. This would have been grea...

Well another Christmas has come and gone.  On Christmas Day (24 December) which is what I still call Christmas Eve, was a German Christmas ...

It's that time of year when you buy a Christmas carp and let it swim around in the tub for a few days. Seven Czech Christmases ...

In November the new €20 banknote was released in to circulation. The new €5 banknote was introduced in May 2013 and the new €10 banknote...

During this year's Eurovision finals in Vienna the city installed some interesting new traffic lights to demonstrate tolerance and op...

Yesterday was a day trip to Vienna to enjoy some of the city's Christmas markets .  And there are definitely a few. The first Decemb...