Prague: Cities to put spring in your step - Telegraph.co.uk


Telegraph.co.uk
Prague: Cities to put spring in your step
Telegraph.co.uk
Oddly, in a city in which there has been so much political repression (by Germans, then Russians, then Czech Communists), there is an infectiously light, ...

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LAist Film Calendar: The Days of (Maynard's) Wine & (Czech) Roses - LAist (blog)


LAist (blog)
LAist Film Calendar: The Days of (Maynard's) Wine & (Czech) Roses
LAist (blog)
Jesus H. Christ might have turned water into wine, but Maynard James Keenan goes for the hard stuff in Blood Into Wine, uncorking this weekend at Laemmle's ...

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Is Europe a Travel Bargain Yet? - Wall Street Journal

Is Europe a Travel Bargain Yet?
Wall Street Journal
The Czech Republic's a fifth cheaper than the US OK, it's a savings. Thanks to the Greek budget crisis, the set eight-course dinner at Paris's famous ...

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Checketts planning to wine and dine Blues' Olympians - St. Louis Post-Dispatch (blog)

Checketts planning to wine and dine Blues' Olympians
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (blog)
Backes and Polak are already priming themselves for a possible matchup between the US and Czech Republic. If the two are chasing down a puck in the corner, ...

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Foster's Eyes More Big Helgas, Fat Yaks Amid Switch - BusinessWeek

Foster's Eyes More Big Helgas, Fat Yaks Amid Switch
BusinessWeek
Chief Executive Officer Ian Johnston is focusing on beer and a market where he controls 50 percent of sales as earnings from his wine business shrink on ...

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Sundays in Lent: The Joy of Repentance - Cape Cod Times

Sundays in Lent: The Joy of Repentance
Cape Cod Times
I served for many years in the post-revolution revival of Christianity in formerly communist Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic). ...

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Winter Olympics -- the national hospitality tour - ESPN

Winter Olympics -- the national hospitality tour
ESPN
That sounds expensive, but the price gets you all you can eat and drink, and Slovakia, like the neighboring Czech Republic, makes great beer. ...

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Jersey lore: What's in a number? - Globe and Mail


Globe and Mail
Jersey lore: What's in a number?
Globe and Mail
Czech winger Jaromir Jagr may personify 68 (a number he chose in honour of his defiant homeland's Prague Spring), but he's not mainstream endorsement ...

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Go ask Alice - San Antonio Current


San Antonio Current
Go ask Alice
San Antonio Current
Why does the Mad Hatter always have to ask Alice why a raven's like a writing desk, for example, or offer her wine when there isn't any? ...

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In Vietnam, Traveling an Unlikely Beer Trail - New York Times


New York Times
In Vietnam, Traveling an Unlikely Beer Trail
New York Times
Considering that Hoa Vien's founder is an honorary consul of the Czech Republic (that is, a noncareer diplomat), I had envisioned throngs of expatriates ...

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