Czech Mate?
Changing country. Changing life. Thinking aloud.
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Closing Bars - 651 days ago
I have decided to place Czech Mate? on hiatus. The blog will remain available for people to read, and there are plans afoot to take this forward in a new direction this later year. Regular and irregular readers of this blog are welcome to join me as I...
Happy New Beer! - 702 days ago
And so another one rolls around, taking us further along the calendar and further away from all things past and passed. Christmas seems like a distant memory, and it was with great sadness that our tree was taken down. Three weeks after I struggled and...
The End Of The Road? - 736 days ago
And so I sit here, nursing a bit of a hangover and hoping that the unsettled queasy feeling in my gut will die down, trying to take stock. The end of 2007 is fast approaching, and it is almost a whole year since we threw all our possessions into the back.
Masquerade: The Confessions of a Prague Gig-olo - 812 days ago
I have been going to see live music for more years than I care to remember, and seriously frequenting gigs since I moved to London in 1995. Never has a Yes tour gone by since then without my suitcases getting some action. Good music has taken me around...
Where Time Has No Meaning - 865 days ago
It is a place where nobody ever wishes you a “good morning” or a “good evening”. You are never blessed for a “good night” because nobody knows if you’re about to have a night, whether it be good, bad, or indifferent. All hours of the clock..




















