Burnt-out Mascot Alzák
In a recent video the mascot of the consumer electronics shop Alza.cz named Alzák is shown walking around totally exhausted, looking a lot like a desperate homeless man. As reported by A2larm, this is...
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A Special Request
As you probably know, I don’t make money from this blog. If you have enjoyed reading the posts, I would be glad if you could send a few Kč (or $, €, £) as...
Random Observations: Weekends in Prague
Every weekend large parts of Prague turn into ghost towns. This is particularly visible when a public holiday is close and people bridge that gap by taking leave. Normally busy streets look like a town after evacuation, and in usually dense rows of parked cars only here and there one vehicle remains.
Random Observations: Overheated Rooms
A striking and quite unique feature of the Czech Republic are overheated rooms. Be it offices, meeting rooms, or train compartments: The heating is at its maximum, and if it really gets too hot,...
The Prague Don’ts: Shoe Meets Carpet
Don’t ever enter a Czech flat with your shoes on. No matter how hole-riddled your socks are.
The Notorious ‘Pigeon Squadron’
When I was still working as a journalist I have had several encounters with the infamous Pigeon Squadron. Journalists and organizers of press conferences in Prague alike fear the raids of this informal group...
The Proxy War of Language Teachers
Every now and then, it happens again: I talk to Czechs in my broken Czech and they reply in their broken English – probably assuming that their broken English is still better than my...
Prague’s Bogus Super Hero
One year ago, Prague’s petty crime scene was profoundly shaken up by a local super hero who intervened at the grass-roots level to fight parking offenders, smokers, people urinating in public and dog owners...
Air Raid Sirens
Every first Wednesday of the month at noon, public life in the Czech Republic is absorbed by the wailing of air raid sirens, followed by an announcement assuring us that this is not about a real threat.
The Prague Fashion Look
After a long time of having been absorbed by work, I barely manage to post one snapshot: The “Fashion Look” trash can.
Funerals on Offer in Central Prague
This huge signboard stroke me. You find it at the north-eastern side of the Old Town Square:
