Cerny Most

I guess some people like taking pictures of castles. I really liked taking pictures of end-of-the-subway-stop Cerny Most today, where I went to meet a student. It sort of reminded me of a post-apocolyptic movie, predicting the future from 1985.

Nettles: everywhere you want to be

No joke. I was biking along the bike path in Karlovy Vary and these leggy, furry stalks brushed at my ankles. I was running in Prague 9, along the brook in the park, where they grow in choking bunches along the banks, and almost had to plunge into a nasty patch to avoid a band of serious mountain bikers. Under bridges and along the roadway, in the garden and along the walk, CZ has an obscene amount of nettles: everywhere you want to be.

Prague and Karlovy Vary, after the asphalt was laid

Downhill Mt Bike Racing, Czech Cup

Pec Pod Snezkou--part of the Krkonose mountains, Eastern Bohemia.
-Freezing Cold July Weather
-Sausages and Beer for breakfast/lunch/dinner
-American pop music on the loudspeakers
-Could the fun ever cease?

the Czech-Out Aisle

While there is a blurry definition of sausage in this country (I would oftentimes call the aforementioned meat a "hot dog", but that might diminish its importance to a czech person), long skinny mystery meat products are incredibly popular. You can get a sausage wrapped in pastry dough (read Pig in a Blanket) at the local petrol station. You can get a roasted, unusually long sausage in a pita (via Balkan Grill) and you can also have a Drowned Man Sausage, or a small pickled sausage stuffed into bread with cabbage and peppers.


(not my photo)

When I am less up-to-my-ears in lesson planning, I'm thinking of starting up a Czech food product blog. Predicted name: the Czech-Out Aisle.