Czechmatediary

First Annual Czech Film Festival is here! / Je tu 1. cesky filmovy festival!

Tanja — Tue, 15 May 2012 05:37:23 +0000

You hear about some film festival almost on every corner nowadays. But you don’t hear about an actual CZECH festival every day! And on top of everything else it is the FIRST Czech Film festival! The First Annual Czech Film Festival will tour major cities throughout the United States including New York, Los Angeles, Salt [...]

Recipe for Czech home-made liver patte!!! / Recept na Jatrovou pastiku!!!

Tanja — Thu, 10 May 2012 05:16:10 +0000

You are not going to believe it but one of you guys (thank you Petre from Austria!) sent me a recipe on a Czech HOME-MADE patte!!!!!! We already know how to bake a traditional Czech bread, make dumplings or even Czech cottage cheese (tvaroh) and now we have recipe for pastika (patte). What more can [...]

how does Czech sound to your ears? / Jak vam zni cestina?

Tanja — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 05:27:50 +0000

If you are not a native Czech speaker, how does this language sound to you? Does it sound beautiful? Ugly? Funny? I researched this topic and found quite the opposite opinions – check it out: CZ: Jak vam zni cestina, jestli nejste rodily mluvci? Zni vam krasne, silene anebo naopak legracne? Prectete si, co o [...]

Prague voted 4th best city for young expat life… but not the friendliest / Praha zvolena 4. nejlepsim novym domovem pro mlade expatrioty, ale…

Tanja — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 04:50:18 +0000

Everyone loves Prague. I mean, have you ever met anyone who didn’t? Even the prominent British newspaper Daily Telegraph chose it to be the 4th (!!) best city for young expat life. Listen to this: ‘Beautiful and only a short flight away from Britain, Prague offers all the stability of Europe with not requiring a [...]

New beginning for the Czech Embassy in the US / Ceskou ambasadu v USA cekaji nove zacatky

Tanja — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 05:36:05 +0000

If you have eve been to the Czech Embassy in Washington DC, you know that it needs some work. In fact, the Czech government thinks it needs way too much work, therefore it is better to just level it with the ground and start over. The following pictures are early digital images of what is [...]

Great potato-cauliflower side dish (by Slovak Mama) / Vyborna bramborovo-kvetakova priloha (autor: Slovak Mama)

Tanja — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 23:49:46 +0000

Czechs and Slovaks are one of the few nations that LOVE cauliflower. They eat it raw, cooked, mashed up and breaded….you name it! I found this delicious and easy cauliflower recipe on a blog called Slovak Mama. Like myself, Lenka (aka Slovak Mama) has been living in the US for quite some time, has a [...]

Happy Easter! / Vesele Velikonoce!

Tanja — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 05:00:42 +0000

I am so excited because I have re-learned how to make traditional Czech Easter eggs this year! It took forever and looks like it was made by a 5-year-old but that does not matter, I am still excited. The black-and-white picture is an image of my dad during Easter when he was little. And guess [...]

Some less obvious trips from Prague… / Nektere mene zname vylety z Prahy…

Tanja — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 22:02:40 +0000

The Girl in Czechland wrote a nice post called ‘Five less obvious day trips from Prague’ and I thought since it’s spring time and people travel more, this would be a good information to have in mind. I have yet to visit a couple of those places she mentioned that I have never been to [...]

We need more babies! / Potrebujeme vic miminek!

Tanja — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 05:39:11 +0000

The birth rate in the Czech Republic keeps decreasing – whose fault is that? 85% of Czechs think this is a serious problem and claim that the Czech government and its laws are not family friendly enough and should be able to take better care of the family unit. After all, 95% of Czechs think [...]

Martina Navratilova is on Dancing with the Stars! / Martina Navratilova soutezi na Dancing with the Stars!

Tanja — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:14:07 +0000

Martina Navratilova proved that she can move on the tennis court as well as on the ballroom floor. She happens to be one of the competitors of the famous show called Dancing with the Stars this year and in her recent interview with the LA Times she explains why she decided to be part of [...]