Rymarov, Czech Republic Travel Blogs

GIVE ME AN EGG, PAINTED
Apr 13, 2007 (1 photos)

Life is good! as I've been back to living in the Czech Republic for three weeks now.  In our small town (Rýmarov) of 10,000, you can walk everywhere - to the three-story-tall high schools, to the quiet dark "borovice" (pine) woods, to a friend´s ...

HAPPY PEOPLE
Mar 11, 2008 (4 photos)

... dollars. That was enough, though, thanks to good luck hitchhiking, to get me through mystical, eastern Slovakia and into the Czech Republic.  It was February 1st when I arrived in small-town Rymarov.  This year, in the hazy, sunny hills ...

SLOW DANCING
Mar 29, 2007 (1 photos)

... me, but it went well; I camped in my tent before reaching Italy´s Alps, then made it through Austria the next day to the Czech Republic, where there were places I could sleep.  The next day, I was back in small-town Rymarov, a European home for me, ...

HAPPY PEOPLE? THE SEQUEL.
Jul 9, 2008 (2 photos)

... to buy ENORMOUS motor vehicles, which are ugly and wasteful. So, I flew to Europe this late June. I returned to Rymarov, Czech Republic, a small town with a daily fruit market and very few corporations, where I believe the people are happy.  My best ...

POSITIVES AND NEGATIVES OF TEACHING ENGLISH
Jan 2, 2006 (4 photos)

... by their guest's foreign culture but unwilling to show me theirs. Sometimes I feel like I have four-hundred students in Rýmarov but few good friends. Maybe I'm totally wrong, but I like those as the simplest terms. The Czech insistent English-speakers ...

A NEW TRADITION, FOR VANESA'S BABY
May 10, 2007 (3 photos)

... ´hello´ to you.) My twenty-six-year-old brother is in the Falkland Islands studying turkey vultures. Hent´a, here in the Czech Republic, is a caring, hugging, fun friend. But, I´m rather unsatisfied here, now.  A few reasons: 1. One of the ...

TALL CZECH BEERS AND WOMEN
Oct 16, 2005 (1 photos)

... . -- The first time that I (Harold Brumboldt the 2nd) saw her (Veronika Havlikova) I was in a bar. When you're in the Czech Republic, you're usually in a bar. I was drinking one of the country's many light beers, whcih I like a little more than ...

WHAT I DID ON WEDNESDAY - PART I
Dec 19, 2005 (4 photos)

... previous Wednesday, and she got me back. Bush-declaring-war-on-Iran/Renáta said, "I really want to bomb the Czech Republic ... because I had an American teacher there." Fleeing from Renáta's bombs, I moved from the public school across the slushy ...

THESE ARE THE MONTHS OF THE YEAR ...
Nov 25, 2005 (6 photos)

Hello, to each "kamarad" (male friend) and "kamaradka" (female friend). Here in the Czech Republic, I continue to dance many hours a week. Some of the older students (age sixteen to nineteen) have invited me to their lessons, so I sometimes ballroom- ...

WALTZ, JIVE, AND THE CHA-CHA-CHA
Nov 19, 2005 (5 photos)

... -bouncing, hillarious monkey - at a "pet store." Michal competes internationally as an electric-boogie dancer. Vert'a made jokes in Czech as we promenaded around. We came to a stop, and we began to waltz. Each boy stepped right foot launching forward ...

MAY YOUR EVERY STORY END IN DANCING (THE BALL!)
Jan 14, 2006 (8 photos)

... quite strong. And a happy ending is worth at least two happy beginnings. The Top 5 Best Things About the Czech Republic: 1. WALTZ 2. GYMNAZIO - A lot of positive things happen between the walls of the public high school. The students take care ...

WEDNESDAY - PART II
Dec 20, 2005 (1 photos)

... won. And the "vlastník" (owner) of the bar came out and gave us some more free shots of "slivovice": a clean, harsh Czech liquor made from plums. The nice "everyday" day ended after one a.m. "Já piju slivovice lepsi nez Iván Lendl!" (I drink ...

FROM VISITING THE CZECH ...
Oct 6, 2005 (6 photos)

... ago, there were trees, rivers ... now, there are factories." This quote got me thinking that the newly capitalist Czech Republic is getting an influx of industrialization. But, I've since been told that the country had been more industrialized during ...

ST. MIKOLAS'S DAY
Dec 12, 2005 (2 photos)

I was in the Czech Republic for the exciting local holiday known as St. Mikolas's Day. It's actually not that exciting, unless you're a kid. And if you're a kid, it's not so much exciting as terrifying. - that is, if you're a bad kid. For, St. ...

MAKE A STORY IN CLASS
Nov 3, 2005 (1 photos)

... means if his parents keep paying, he can keep going, even if he never advances to the next year. Incidentally, in the Czech Republic, class-mates are together for every class, seven or eight classes a day, for four or optionally eight years straight. ...

SMALL, PERFECT
Apr 24, 2006 (5 photos)

... car on the tiny highway that cuts a sharp dissecting path through cute pink Puysdorf, on a sunny day. I got a ride to the Czech Republic. I was relieved to be out of busy and self-overvaluing Western Europe. I returned for ten days to the town where I ...

... TO TEACHING IN THE CZECH
Oct 9, 2005 (4 photos)

... I like it. The boys and girls I teach are mostly from fifteen to as much as twenty years old. Seeing as how it's the Czech Republic and not the U.S., I could conceivably see any of these students out at the bar. This means that if I'm out with my goofy ...

MAINTAINING YOUTH
Sep 14, 2006

... Morisson book she wanted when I got back to the States, and I hitchhiked to nearby Czech Republic. I was happy when I got back to small-town Rymarov. My blond Czech friend, short but feisty Klara Sigmundova, wholeheartedly welcomed me. She and her ...

SMALL TOWN CASANOVA'S, AND GOOD-BYE PARTY
Apr 14, 2009 (15 photos)

... , in and of itself, hitting on girls hadn't been one of the main things that attracted me to spending the winter in the Czech Republic, I found myself doing it a lot.  The soft-faced girls almost always said "ano" (yes), when asked to dance.  ...