Everyone who has been to Prague must know what this is: Click for a much larger picture. Yes, it is the Old Town City Hall with the Astronomical Clock ("Orloj"). But those who look even more carefully will also say: holy crap, the building on the left side from the city hall looks strange. It should be white and old-fashioned. So you may be led to check the pictures of the real Old Town City...
Prague: stunning architecture, steeped in history, a jewel described by historian Norman Davies as "Europe's most beautiful city". No wonder the Czech Republic's capital hosts about 500,000 British tourists a year.
KUBELIK COMES HOME: In 1990 Rafael Kubelik, already in retirement for five years because of debilitating physical ailments, set foot on Czechoslovak soil for the first time since 1948, and was reunited with the Czech Philharmonic, of which he had been principal conductor at the time of his exile. Honoring tradition, they opened the Prague Spring festival with Smetana's epic cycle of symphonic poems,...
PRAGUE (Reuters) - Czech interim Prime Minister Jan Fischer has proposed the central bank governor, Zdenek Tuma, for the post of the Czech representative at the European Commission, a government spokesman said Sunday.
Prague - Czech Prime Minister Jan Fischer proposed Zdenek Tuma, the governor of the Czech National Bank, for a post in the European Commission, the premier's office said Sunday. Fischer has said that he would select the Czech Republic's candidate for...
For those of you reading our newsletter , following our Twitter feed or blogs, you are aware that I the Springboard Series partnered with Microsoft Learning for the “ Get On The Bus Tour ” The goal was to bring information on Windows 7, Server 2008 R2, Exchange 2010 and Certification. So, I agreed to spend 5 days working, traveling and even sleeping on a bus. I have to first start by stating...
by Ken Tomorrow we're going to be dealing with the whole of Smetana's Má Vlast ( My Country ). We're going to hear its six movements played by the Czech Philharmonic, divvied up among three conductors. For technical reasons, those conductors won't include Karel Ančerl (1908-1973), the orchestra's principal conductor from 1950 to 1968. The technical reasons are that while I just bought the...
CRY UMM! for England, David and St George. For when the cranky conservative president in Prague put his signature to the Lisbon treaty last week, Britain's Eurosceptic press didn't know what to do. The Express had a ritual rant, of course, but it doesn't count. The real question was what the Sun, Telegraph and Mail would say. Answer: nothing very convincing. The Telegraph contrived to lead on other...
Well if you had of told me a couple of years ago Irsquod be in Vienna on my 31st birthday and it was going to be the coldest day of my life thus farhellip I wouldnrsquot have believed you. In fact it was so cold it made our previous five days in Prague feel like a tropical island. In fact hoping off the train after arriving in Vienna a few days earlier it hit us right away. So much so that w
"This is like deja vu all over again." Yogi Berra Three months ago, I wrote about the Mexican food delivery service, Las Adelitas . It was a mixed bag, and normally, I wouldn't revisit something so quickly. But right after I did that post, I found out they were going from delivery only to opening an actual restaurant in Vinohrady. My curiosity meter jumped. I went three different times to...
Genoa are not giving up on Europe having beaten Lille and remained in the race for the place in the knockout stages, mostly thanks to Valencia’s slip up against Slavia Prague. They will probably have the chance to be masters of their own destiny at Marassi against Los Che. Gasperini also rested a couple of players and he couldn’t have asked for much more. They will now try to beat Siena...
Last weekend Valencia suffered a minimum away win against rock-bottom Malaga, thus reaching the ninth unbeaten game. On the other hand Zaragoza ended the four-game winless run by winning Almeria at home. Los Che wasted the chance in Prague After five straight matches without conceding in Primera, Valencia drew twice with Slavia Prague in one week. Actually, by the middle of this week they failed to...
Prague - Caretaker Czech Prime Minister Jan Fischer on Saturday indirectly turned down an offer by two major Czech political parties to become the Czech Republic's nominee for the European Commission. The premier confirmed that the two largest partie...
MRD often works in black and white, paying attention to detail and reducing the images to the essential. He tilts his camera a lot and as a result he gets his certain angle as can be seen on the photograph of the mysterious door in Venice. Combining simple structural and textural elements with orchestrated interplay of bright highlights and deep shadows MRD creates a poetic atmosphere both romantic...