Christopher's Expat Adventure

PF 2017!!   Šťastný nový rok!! Happy New Year everyone!! This was another great year of travel adventures.  Happy New Year to all of t...

Merry Christmas!  Happy Hanukkah!  This was the first time in almost 40 years since Christmas Eve and Hanukkah fell on the same day. It...

Today's the last day to buy the traditional carp for Christmas dinner. This is also the last working day before the three Christmas ...

Cuba owes Czechland something like +6 billion koruna (~$276 million).  This is debt that dates back to the Cold War days. Cuba doesn'...

On Thursday night we had an IBM Project Management Christmas party.  This year's theme was "Bad boys / bad girls". O...

The Christmas season has begun which means it's time for Mikuláš to show up.  Every year a few of us go around the office giving out c...

This is my first Christmas in the new flat so I had to think about where to put up the Charlie Brown Christmas tree. Fortunately, I had ...

Last year I had the honour of representing IBM at the 2015 Brno University of Technology Christmas Ball.  This year I really lucked out.  ...

Tonight was another first.  My first English class.  Well, sort of.  I was invited by Masaryk University , the country's second largest...

The Glass Room  was written by British author Simon Mawer and it was published in 2009. The real glass room It's a fictio...