We spent the past few, sunny and lovely spring days “czech’ing” out Prague. I mean, how could we not? It’s an easy drive from Vienna although a word of caution, if you do drive, make sure to take the route through Brno and not follow the signs for “Praha” from the Vienna highways unless you are keen on exploring small Czech villages and country roads and being stuck behind trucks. In any case, we made it! What did we do? Czech out this lovely place, of course! We also toured the Castle District – Juliana was searching high and low for that … Continue reading Czech’ing out Prague

This past weekend, we took to the road once again, this time heading to the Czech Republic, into the heart of Bohemia, to a small little city called “ČeskýKrumlov” (please don’t make me pronounce it!). We expected a fun time (don’t we always have that on family trips?), cooperative kids (because they always travel so well!), and lots of Czech food and beer. Well, we had lots of good food and lots of fresh Bohemian beer….on the other front, well, not so much. I guess it was partially our fault as we knew this was going to be a hilly … Continue reading Bohemian Beer (with a big helping of whine!)