By Ricky, on June 3rd, 2017 Receiving dish being installed, perfectly illustrating the Czech approach to health & safety 🙂 © Ricky Yates
One concern I had from the outset of deciding to purchase my new home in Stará Oleška, was whether I would be able to obtain easy internet access. Ever since having an email address and joining the world-wide web, I have always done so via a broadband connection as part of having a landline phone – through British Telecom in North Oxfordshire and via O2 in Prague.
Therefore, back in mid-April, I enquired of Real Estate Agent Martin Tonder, whether the elderly owners of the house, had a land line phone line through which internet access could be obtained. In reply he wrote, ‘Sorry there is no land line, but there should . . . → Read More: I am connected to the internet and the new house has wifi
By Ricky, on June 27th, 2013
Ricky at RĂcky v OrlickĂ˝ch horách © Ricky Yates
I am writing this, sitting in the bar/dining room/lounge of Hotel Konšel, located in the small settlement that bears my name, RĂcky v OrlickĂ˝ch horách. Yes, after our short, very snowbound visit in early April this year, Ricky has returned to RĂcky 🙂
This time, Sybille and I are here, hoping to spend the first eight days of two weeks of my annual leave, enjoying a walking holiday in the OrlickĂ© hory. And, if the hotel’s slightly dodgy wifi internet connection had allowed me, I would have posted this on the evening of Wednesday 26th June, as my first ever blogpost not posted from my office in the Chaplaincy Flat in Prague.
We arrived here on the afternoon of Monday 24th June, following a . . . → Read More: Ricky has returned to RĂcky
By Ricky, on June 10th, 2013
The Lahovice interchange south of Prague where the ring road crosses the main road south from Prague city centre. The top photo is how it should be; the bottom photo is how it was on Monday 3rd March 2013
Last Monday evening (3rd June), just as I was uploading photographs to illustrate a draft blog post about the serious flooding we were experiencing in Prague, our connection to the internet died. I soon discovered that the cause of the problem was that our landline phone was also dead – our broadband internet connection is via the landline.
Awaking on Tuesday morning, to find that we still did not have a functioning internet connection, I contacted Gordon the Church Treasurer using my mobile phone, to explain the problem. Although the contract with our service provider O2, is in my name, the monthly bill is . . . → Read More: Living without being connected to the internet for a week
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