Czechmatediary

Czech e-books on line and free! / Ceske elektronicke knihy zdarma!

Tanja — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:15:44 +0000

Are you tired of asking your friends and relatives to send you Czech/Slovak books? The situation gets really uncomfortable: books are usually heavy and the postage fee ends up being ridiculously high and you end up feeling totally guilty since your friend/relative pays that fee without wanting you to to pay him back. Forget these awkward [...]

Prague metro - the perfect nuclear shelter / Prazske metro - perfektni atomovy ukryt

Tanja — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:28:44 +0000

One of my Facebook friends posted this while I was aimlessly browsing FB. Since I am a Prague girl I found these little facts quite interesting ;0) CZ: Jestlize pochazite z Prahy (nebo jste pouhym milovnikem Prahy) a ztravili jste v Prazskem metru nekolik hodin denne, tyto fakta vas bodou zajimat. PRAGUE METRO - SURVIVAL CHAMBER [...]

New Czech-origin celebrity alerts: Pavelka and Lysacek! / Nove celebrity ceskeho puvodu: Pavelka a Lysacek!

Tanja — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:33:12 +0000

I have not watched the last Bachelor show but I could not help myself noticing the tabloids on the front pages of every magazine: “Jake Pavelka picked the bad girl!“, ” Jake Pavelka cheats on his fiancee“, “Jake Pavelka will be dancing with the Stars!“. I did some quick research on the origin of his [...]

Help Antonia - Slovak mom living in the US and battling cancer/ Pomozte Antonii - Slovenske mamince zijici v Americe, ktera zapasi s rakovinou

Tanja — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:43:24 +0000

Antonia is a 32-year-old mom of 16-month-old triplets, currently living in the state of Virginia. She was born and raised in Slovakia and attended Trnava University, like probably a handful of my other Slovak readers here. Antonia is a super-woman. Non only does she manage to juggle being a mom of triplet babies but she [...]

2010 Olympic games were the most successful ever for the Czech Republic/OH 2010 byly pro Cechy zatim ty nejuspesnejsi

Tanja — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:11:10 +0000

Winning 6 medals - it could not get any better for the Czechs! Let’s do a recap: Martina Sablikova (speed skater) won 2 (!!) gold medals, and one bronze medal Lukas Bauer (cross country skier) won 1 bronze medal Sarka Zahrobska (downwill skier) won 1 bronze medal Sablikova, now the most successful Czech winter Olympic game competitor ever, is [...]

To puke or not to puke? / Zvracet nebo ne?

Tanja — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 05:31:31 +0000

I am happy to announce that we are expecting yet Czech-American baby. The thing is that since I am in my early stages of pregnancy I don’t feel so good - in fact I feel like I want to throw up all the time - which greatly effects my writing abilities. I am sorry to [...]

‘Communism is dead! Czech people, you don’t have to eat like a communist’ / Komunismus je po smrti! Cesi, uz nemusite jist jako za komousu’

Tanja — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:15:56 +0000

Karen is one of my frequent commentators, a very pleasant American lady who currently lives in Prague. She has a blog called The Empty Nest Expat and writes bunch of interesting articles about her observations. One of her recent posts is contemplating about the Czech - still rather unhealthy - cuisine. Read her thoughts in [...]

Two Czechs are to conquer frozen lake Baikal / Dva cesi planuji zdolat zamrzle jezero Bajkal

Tanja — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:37:16 +0000

Today left Prague an important travel expedition called the Bargans Bajkal 2010. It consists of 2 extra brave men - Vaclav Sura and Petr Blazek, who are to cross the Siberian Baikal lake on foot, by so-called unsupported style. All of their belongings (food included) will be pulled by those two man on sledges. The [...]

Rice art: who can beat that? / Ryzove umeni: kdo ho muze prekonat?

Tanja — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 05:05:39 +0000

The Czech Republic’s tourist spot is Prague; Slovakia has the magnificent Tatras; China has the Great Wall; Japan has the Mount Fuji and…what else? How about these images of a truly astonishing Rice-paddy art that my friend sent me? ‘The Japanese artists create the murals by planting little purple and yellow-leafed Kodaimai rice along [...]

Sablikova is enjoying her victory/ Sablikova si uziva sveho vitezstvi

Tanja — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:08:34 +0000

Not long after the Olympic games began the Czechs have already won their first gold medal. The 22-year-old speed skater, Martina Sablikova, conquered a 3,000-meter long race like it was a piece of cake. But the real piece of cake was waiting for her at the Czech House in Vancouver, fashionably shaped as an ice-skating [...]