Bohemia and Prague
In and around Czech Republic
Doug and I are leaving for the Czech Republic on August 11. Nathaniel has been studying in Prague for the month of July, and will be playing in a ten-day summer music festival in August. We've always thought a trip to Prague was in our future at some point, and that point seems to have arrived.
We'll spend five nights in southern Bohemia, visiting music festivals in Cesky Krumlov and Bechyne (where Nathaniel will be playing). We'll then travel with Nathaniel back to Prague, where we'll meet Jeremy and his girlfriend, Haley, and the five of us will share an apartment there for a week.
We're hopeful that we'll have internet connections along the way to report in on our travels, so please tune in!
Lisa
Route taken and entries by Real Traveler LisaC
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Arrival in Bohemia
7:00 am, Wednesday morning, Cesky Krumlov. We’ve arrived in Bohemia and church bells are signalling the beginning of a day blissfully free of travel p... Continue reading » -
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Exploring Cesky Krumlov
Cesky Krumlov is a small town on the Vltava River about 180 kilometres south of Prague and not far from the Austrian border. The town is named for th... Continue reading » -
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Visiting the Music Festival in Bechyne
We finished our exploration of ÄŒesky Krumlov today with a tour of its last surviving brewery, one that was founded sometime in the 13th century and mo... Continue reading » -
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Visiting Tabor
We took a 50-minute train ride today to explore Tabor, a town of some 40,000 people. It’s a vivid combination of prosperous new town and historically... Continue reading » -
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Rainy Day in Bechyne
Our last day in BechynÄ› has been a rainy one, so we cancelled our bicycle rental and instead visited the local castle and art museums. Our rather swee... Continue reading » -
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Introduction to Prague
We’ve been in Prague for 24 hours now, enough time to begin to appreciate both the beauty and the sometime suffocating crowds of this enchanting city.... Continue reading » -
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Exploring Prague
We started the morning with a visit to the remarkable Jewish cemetery, which dates back to 1400 and has some 12,000 stones covering anywhere from 20,0... Continue reading » -
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Passports and Toys
Jeremy and Haley went to the American Embassy first thing this morning to fill out paperwork for a temporary passport to replace the one he lost the o... Continue reading » -
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The Unbearable Unfamiliarity of Being (in Prague)
After ten days in the Czech Republic and five days in Prague, I feel that any understanding of the place is receding from my grasp rather than getting... Continue reading » -
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Final Thoughts
Thoughts at the end of a trip: Sounds. Doug would have liked to bring a microphone and add sounds to our blog, but that doesn’t seem to be part of... Continue reading » -
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Visiting Terezin
I swore with frustration at the bus station today. After 30 minutes of getting inaccurate directions in various forms of English, Czech, and German, w... Continue reading »
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