Empty Nest Expat

This pretty lady bought her very cool hat in Uzbekistan to go with her black boots All over Prague this winter, women are wearing boots! Ta...

Today the Governor of my former state of Illinois was thrown out of office without a single legislator rising to defend him. Having spent f...

No, I did not tell them it should read "Welcome TO Berlin." The Brandenburg Gate In the strange logic peculiar to governments...

Dear President Obama, One reason everyone is excited about your presidency is our sense that you respect dialogue. There is a large issue di...

The President of the United States of America and the First Lady I tried not to say to random people on the tram yesterday "I have a n...

It's David Cerny Appreciation Week here at the Empty Nest Expat Blog. David Cerny is a delightfully provocative artist native to the Cz...

This month I've been reading book after book in English written by Czechs. Among the pile of titles a friend lent me was a book called ...