Prague Thrift Stores If times are hard and you need to make the money go a little further or whether you are somebody who doesn’t feel the need to keep paying out for brand new stuff or possibly you are passionate about the Reduce-Reuse-Recycle concept or just on the lookout for a bargain then Prague … Read More
When Tourists Die in Prague There are places in Prague where people die but you will never find a memorial. Statistically speaking, Prague is one of the safest countries in the world where a crime directed against a person is very rare and yet tourists do die and on this post I’m not talking about … Read More
Kiwanis Dolls In 1915 an organisation formed in Detroit, USA, with the name “Supreme Lodge Benevolent Order of Brothers”. A year later they changed it to “Kiwanis International”. The Native American Indian Algonquian language translates Kiwanis as “we build”. It is a benevolent organisation focused on serving children. I’m not going to go into all … Read More
Bistro Strecha, good food and a great cause Strecha means “roof” and the first thing you’ll notice here is that it’s on the ground floor so if the name doesn’t relate to it’s location then maybe it’s to remind people that they are aiming high or that they have a safe place over their heads. … Read More
Book Review – Prague’s Stolpersteine Stumbling Stones Defiant in Their Memory 2008-2021 On March 24th 2019 an email arrived into my inbox with a single word in the title – Stolpersteine. The purpose of that email was to engage with people who had written about Stolpersteine (I’d called them Prague Stumble Stones) and suggest linking … Read More
Beneficial Brick Welcome to the largest street-art project in the world. You’ll find this organisation in many of the larger towns and cities in the Czech Republic not just in Prague. They have various locations in Prague but their most well-known point is on Na Prikope at the bottom of Wenceslas Square. What Do They … Read More
Prague New York Firefighters Memorial When I sat down to write this post I thought I had “one or two” minor details to work out. Those “one or two details” took me on a journey through the internet, being inspired, being sad, being shocked and being grateful. This journey is ongoing. Nobody who still has … Read More
Prague Homeless – The Hermes Boat Some NumbersThere are around 68,500 homeless people in the Czech Republic. Almost 120,000 adults and children live in unstable or unsuitable accommodation. At any given time about 5000 of them are Prague homeless. Just under a quarter of the country’s homeless are women, almost 12 percent are under 18 … Read More
Novy Prostor – The Czech Big Issue As usual, an idea for a page gets triggered into action by an event. That event was learning that Novy Prostor (NP – in English it means New Space) had published it’s 500th edition in July 2017). It launched in Czech in 1999 under the name “Patron” but … Read More
Prague Homeless – The HoBohemia Project HoBohemia was a 2-year research project run by the Institute of Sociology under the Czech Academy of Sciences covering homelessness in the cities of Prague and Plzen. It is estimated that there are 70,000 homeless people in the country and another 130,000 “at risk” of becoming homeless. The first … Read More