Entries from September 2009

September 30, 2009

Museum of Communism, the pope and books

Some eventful days have passed, or, more precisely, some days which I used to explore the city

I´ve found my bookstore here in Prague, or my two bookstores, only a minute´s walk apart, both owned by Brits (wuhuu!) and both full of english books, cosy, familiar atmosphere.. and they even got a poetry book [...]

September 28, 2009

Sturm or Burcak, that is here the question…

What a wonderful day! Prague is also a Sturm-capital! Today I had my first glass of Czech Burcak, the equivalent to Austrian Sturm.
Sturm is the unpasteurised grape juice that is sold from early september until late october. At first its just cloudy grape juice, but when you buy it a few weeks later a part [...]

September 25, 2009

My own little Golem

Yesterday the ERASMUS- Welcome Club hosted a game for us newcomers here in Prague. We had to follow the footsteps of the golem. This was mostly a running game through the old jewish part of the inner city combined with guessing, riddles and finding things that could please the golem (who turned out to be [...]

September 23, 2009

Czech cuisine, good and bad…

Today I experienced two very different representations of czech cuisine, one has been an almost heavenly sweet treat and the second one was a very … hm… strange beverage…
Bad things first… I´ve been to a nice bar next to Vlatva River tonight and we had good food. But, when the waitress asked for drinks I [...]

September 23, 2009

Blog-Relaunch… my personal Prague-adventure

After a while I´m back again for bloging and I have a new topic to blog about.
I´m in Prague! I will be studying here until Feb. 2010 and this blog should keep my friends informed of my doings here…
Arriving in Prague is funny, when the train reaches the station the main-theme of Smetana´s “Die Moldau” [...]