Prague Architecture with its amazing variety of decoration

By Ricky, on February 20th, 2011

Artwork on the exterior of Obecní Dum / Prague’s Municipal House © Ricky Yates

In my first post of 2011, in which I wrote about ‘Why I like living in Prague’, I explained that one reason was the amazing architecture and buildings to be seen whenever walking around the city centre or inner suburbs of the city. I also promised to write a future blogpost to illustrate my point, so what follows is in part, to keep me true to my word. This subject is also inevitably better illustrated than written about. So, as many people who leave comments or write private emails to me say how much they like my photographs, this post will be more pictures than words.

The photograph on the left is of artwork on the exterior of Obecní Dum / Prague’s Municipal House. The building is . . . → Read More: Prague Architecture with its amazing variety of decoration

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The Velvet Revolution – 20 years on

By Ricky, on November 18th, 2009

Charcoal roasted ham being cooked on Old Town Square © Ricky Yates

Yesterday, Tuesday 17th November 2009, marked the twentieth anniversary of the start of the events that led to the ‘Sametová Revoluce’, the Velvet Revolution, which saw the demise of the Communist government that had ruled Czechoslovakia for previous forty one years. As I mentioned in my recent blog post about Holidays and Celebrations in the Czech Republic, 17th November is now kept as a public holiday entitled ‘Struggle for Freedom and Democracy Day’.

Although not a Czech and having only lived here for 14 months, I was still interested to see how the momentous events of twenty years ago would be celebrated. So early yesterday afternoon, Sybille and I set out from our flat and travelled by bus and Metro to the centre of Prague, in order to soak up the atmosphere.

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