Christopher's Expat Adventure

The Czech word for "mask" is rouška .  Masks are mandatory when you leave your home.  If you don't have a mask then you can u...

I was supposed to head out today on holiday but that's not happening now.  I'd been planning the one for quite some time.   I was go...

It's been a crazy last couple of weeks.  On 1 March we had the first three confirmed cases of coronavirus here in Czechland.  As of 5 Ma...

Today is the 170th birthday of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk who is one of the most important figures in Czech history.   He was the founder and f...

From 1 March, the government increased taxes on cigarettes resulting in the biggest price hike in more than a decade.  A pack of cigarettes ...

On Friday night I caught a flight to Sweden , spent the night and caught the 7 am ferry to Mariehamn.  From Stockholm it was a 5,5 hour tri...

When I first moved here I used to joke around that the metric system was just a fad and that it wouldn't last.  Obviously just a joke bu...

Ztraceno v překladu is "lost in translation" and that's how I feel at times trying to learn Czech.  It's not like there i...

My old IBM team, the old behind all of the pranks , at one point had over 70 people.  I left just over a year ago and now that team is only ...

In Germany they have Ruhezeit which is "quiet time".  Germans love their rules but they go a bit crazy with their quiet hours.  ...