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By Cari, on January 28th, 2008%
Prague Airport Drives Homeless out of its Premises
I think it’s an interesting step by the Prague government to deal with the homelessness issue, I wonder how it would effect those of us who look less vagrant?
Yes, I’m thinking back to May when I spent the night at Prague Airport. To be honest, I didn’t notice a huge number of homeless. That was far more of a problem at Praha Hlavní Nádraží when I’d head there to catch a train. Then again, it wasn’t the depth of winter either.
Judging by Prague’s section in Budget Traveller’s Guide to Sleeping in Airports, I’m . . . → Keep Going: but what about the rest of us?
By Cari, on October 17th, 2007%
‘Zine Proves Prague Students are More than Tourists … interesting article in yesterday’s Washington Square News.
“We want to expand our perspective, see each other as locals might and constantly push the limits of our role as tourists,” wrote Duke University junior Casey Dean and NYU’s Billy O’Hare, the magazines editors-in-chief, in a letter featured on the site.
I was vaguely aware of The Prague Wanderer, currently in its second semester, while in Prague this summer but it didn’t seem to have much relevance to our short summer term. I think it’s definitely a good idea to push not only beyond the . . . → Keep Going: More than Tourists
By Cari, on June 21st, 2007%
So that photo woud be at the foot of the stairs looking back towards the main door. And yes, human bones form the decoration of Kutna Hora’s Ossuary. I wasn’t happy with most of the photos, hence there not being any posts to the Gallery, but I thought these were pretty cool. I knew Kutna Hora had a ‘bone church’ but this was not at all what I expected. Also a huge number of primary school kids: cannot see that going over well at home “You’re traumatizing my kid!”
Kutna Hora itself was a quiet day. We did the . . . → Keep Going: Kutna Hora: Bones
By Cari, on June 7th, 2007%
Two weeks in and one class down.
We basically wrapped yesterday with a tour of the Prague Sports’ Facilities including Sazka Arena, Czech Lawn-Tennis Club (where Navratilova trained before immigrating to the US) and Toyota Arena, home to AC Sparta. We had a great tour of Sazka and received a book about the development of the arena, and were even allowed on the field at Toyota. Even not being much of a soccer fan, that was pretty cool. Although we didn’t have a tour of the tennis center I enjoyed seeing pictures of Martina, since she was Queen at the time . . . → Keep Going: Prague: 2 Weeks In
By Cari, on June 6th, 2007%
“We hold in common the belief that it is the obligation of historic sites to assist the public in drawing connections between the history of our site and its contemporary implications. We view stimulating dialogue on pressing social issues and promoting humanitarian and democratic values as a primary function. As a member of the Coalition; this site shares that committment.”
~International Coalition of Historic Site Museums of Conscience
Well that sign on the walls of the “Small Fortress in Terezin was to be my only photo from the day, however it’s a devil to make a yellow text on . . . → Keep Going: Terezin
By Cari, on June 5th, 2007%
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Karlovy Vary is better known to Europeans as Karlsbad. Not surprisingly, I felt more like I was in Germany than in the Czech Republic. Then again, I feel like that a lot of the time in Prague. Prague is as Czech as New York is American. Our tour was run through Premiant and picked us up at the apartments at 8:45 AM. It was about a two hour drive, but you know me and moving vehicles. I was asleep before we got out of Prague.
Our first stop once in town was the . . . → Keep Going: Karlovy Vary: June 4, 2007
By Cari, on May 31st, 2007%
So according to Flight Memory, I’ve flown 112,781 miles since August 2001. I’m not sure whether I expected that to be higher or lower, but I wish there were an equivalent for the bus since apparently the circumfrence of Australia is 10,000 miles and I doubled up in some areas and also went up and down the middle. Re: flight travel, I could go back further but I’m not sure I’ll remember all flights and I don’t think it will add a significant amount with the exception of London in December 2000 and Spain in April 1996. Translation the . . . → Keep Going: Distance Travelled/River Cruise/Tickets Booked
By Cari, on May 29th, 2007%
Well, mostly on foot. We “cheat” and take the number 11 tram from Pod Jezerkhou (on the bottom in the middle) to Muzeum but that’s because it’s way too hilly and/or early.
We had a very interesting lecture this morning from Jiri Pehe, the Director of the NYU in Prague program. I had a rough idea of Czech/Czechoslovakian history, but loved all the holes he filled in. Of course like any good lecture, it left me wanting to know more so I spent part of the afternoon on a quest for books. Came up empty, but I’ll find some when I get . . . → Keep Going: Prague on Foot/Skype/Citibank, etc.
By Cari, on May 28th, 2007%
except it’s not a very good vocab lesson because I still don’t know the word.
On our way back from ‘class’ (more on that later) this AM, I wanted to stop for bandaids because my new shoes chewed up my feet. I brought bandaids with me but they didn’t stick very well in the heat under the strap of the shoes. So I go into the drug store near the apartments and ask for a ‘band aid’. Got offered a tampon, then a pad. Finally I slipped off the sandals and showed him the blisters.
I got a box of “Bang-Ze”s. . . . → Keep Going: Czech Vocab Lesson: Band Aid
By Cari, on May 27th, 2007%
When I can’t figure something out, i.e. the coin operated cold drink dispenser in the local shop, I think people will expect it. After all, I’m a foreigner. And then I realize that I don’t look like one. When that happened in Spain, it didn’t seem abnormal because I was only one month removed from Japan, but now it’s been a year. I’m surprised it hit me the way it did. Of course the whole foreigner thing (as well as thinking ikura desu ka? when I was wanting to ask the price of something in the shop) is further complicated by . . . → Keep Going: Gaijin…but I don’t look it
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