Empty Nest Expat

Yesterday I read a children's picture book that took me right back to the nine months I spent in Prague, Czech Republic. Peter Sis, ...

Longtime readers of the Empty Nest Expat blog know I am a huge fan of Czech artist David Černý and his very Czech brand of irreverance and b...

No matter where I go in the world, I swear I could find the most interesting things to do in any given town. Wichita, Kansas was no exceptio...

"If you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a per...

A Force for Good Vaclav Havel Modeled after the American Presidential Libraries, the new Vaclav Havel Library will be a repository for Vacl...

The Czech Republic is already the most atheist nation on Earth. Mathematicians and scientists are predicting that the Czech Republic will be...

Happy Good Friday readers! Today I was delighted to see my pastor in Prague, Chaplain Ricky Yates of St. Clement's Anglican Church, prop...

President Klaus brought home a great souvenir of his State Visit to Chile.  Click on my title to watch the video.  Five million people have ...

You've heard that Christmas carol about ''Good King Wenceslas,'' right?  Well who was he? The Czechs know but everyone e...

People of a certain age in the Czech Republic have had the misfortune of experiencing the full blast of the worst of the 20th century.  The ...

This summer, I was without internet access so I got out of the blogging habit.  I'll eventually get around to sharing my adventures sinc...

I am sure that 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo of China is a brave and amazing person who puts mere mortals to shame. However, it m...

  What's on tap at the Prague Beer Museum? Here's a story that could prompt every reader to think, "Gee, I wish I'd though...

The Czechs had a phrase during communism times: "If you're not stealing, you're stealing from your family."  Since the gov...

I had used Couchsurfing.org several times as I started my empty nest vagabonding adventure for accommodations, but it was while I was back ...