A small play in front of toilet

Jirka made a small bday party for us. He invited us to his grandma’s house in Droždín. We drunk his švestkovice, ate grandma’s cakes and grilled zucchini. At the end we went to a local disco place (-;

Fields

Sylva preparing present.

Jirka and Pavel

Door to the garden

Vlk

Jirka

Vlk

Prepared to play

Tasting some water (-;

From this pear

Jirka and Štefan

Sunflower

Growing blackberries

In the backyard

Vlk, Pepa and Štefan

Preparing another water for us

Some shots, please

Vlk and Bivoj

Kača

Sitting in the dark

Grilling

Pepa and Sylva

Bivoj

Jívová

Collecting mushrooms is a lot of fun. Few people with funny basket are running in the forest while inspecting the ground. Sometimes they stop, get down, cut something, throw it to the basket and run again. At the end of the day they cook those things. Well, and sometimes don’t survive.

Štefan and Pepa

Bivoj

Sylva

A poisonous, but beautiful one

Štefan

In the forest

Pepa

Light

But these are blueberries…

A quick move!

A field

This is the first thing we saw after we came out of train

These pictures are from a small afternoon trip to a small village Kryštofovo Údolí that is
just a couple of kilometres behind Liberec.

The first spring flowers…

Kryštofovo Údolí

Cementery

Cementery

Church

Entrance to cementery

Church in the village

Firestation

Factory restaurant

She even cannot fly!

WTF?

Walley

We are not in Kryštofovo Údolí anymore

Houses with ceramic walls

Tunnel

Sheep

Cross at the road

Overlook from the mountains

Ještěd

An old German house…

Afternoon sky

Next to the cofee mill

In the train station

Fields

Břecek

Very late pictures from Easter…

Slivovice, what else?!

Still in pyjamas

Another group

These two are always sleeping somewhere…

Pickles

Just another weekend at Dája’s weekend house. Drinking, grilling, eating, celebrating Wal’s birthday. Just having a good time…

Wal and a cake… (-;

Na zdraví!

Chemiko

Fire water…

Verča climbing the hill

Wal bitting the tree

Walking…

Moon landscape…

View from the house

Wal trying to be neanderthal man…

Smoke… but not Wal… Neighbor tried to smoke us out…

Chemiko preparing the fire water

Cheers

He is taller than he seems to be

Wal

Fire

He will be eaten the next time

From the house

Dája bringing the fire into the house

Just finish the beer

And open the wine!

Done

Wal drinking…

She is also a drunkard as all of us..

Dája

Shama

Beers in the morning

Ready to be opened… Better not…

Shama in the morning…

Dája, the gartener

Supo

Supo got older again, and he made a birthday party. There are some pictures from it.

Supo

Večerníček

Sylva

In the garden

Cake and other presents

As usually, there was a competition about knowledge of Supo’s life. I have to say my team won it! Me, my brother and Sylva, Supo’s sister, we were truly unbeatable!

Sylva filling out the form

Some were really trying hard…

Metal group

Doing meat

A view to the street

Beer

Supo

Older Supo

Supo

Břecek and Had

…

Had

Somebody is sleeeeeeping..

Enjoy yourself

Wunderbar!

There is the rest of the photos from Špacír. These photos are just from the race itself.

Kamenný Šenk

Kamenný Šenk

Moritz

At Moritz

Hermína

Duke

(-;

Kuděj

Wunderbar!

Kamča and Tom

Sylva

U Leguána

U Leguána

Cheating!!!

U dvou strašidel

Praying…

In front of Museum of Modern Art

This year Špacír’s theme was to conquest the highest mountain in Olomouc – Hanácké kopec. And of course to run through all the pubs, drink seven beers and eat seven cheese. There is the first part of the photos.

The winner at the registration

Kamča

All of us

On the way to Hanácký kopec

On the way

Špunt

Flašinet

Hanácké kopec

Feeding chammy

Hmmm, I like this animal…on my plate

Horses

Discovery of an old sign

Signing the flag

Another CD

Official start in the park

Official speech from a special guest

After successful conquest of Hanácký Kopec, we continued to the park where was lunch (sparce oily water) and a start of the game.

Offloading some participants

Kamča and Evča

Špunt

Kamča

Me

Sylva, Sofie and Gicka

Me and Kamča

Tomáš and Pepa

Anička

Taking a nap

Sofie and Maky

Pan Kavárník

Me and Kamča went one cloudy and cold day to a day trip to Kutná Hora, a small, but beautiful town about one hour by train from Prague. We have found that the town is really nice. There is lot of small old houses in the city centre, and, of course, the catedral Svatá Barbora.

Cathedral

We also have found a great café Barvířův dům (http://www.barviruvdum.cz/kavarna/ – warning, the site looks awful, but the café is so nice…). The café reminds me a clean classy pharmacy, but it is not sterile as pharmacies use to be. Everything there is hand crafted, and the design is so clean. You can notice even small things like wooden trash bins, small lights on the tables, tables clean of usual mess of advertisements. You can notice a nice menu that was print on hand paper. Also the owner was really nice, and he likes preparing the crêpes. We just liked it so much that I had to put here this small notice and some pictures.

Christ

Entrance to the house or maybe a toilette…

View on the cathedral

Entrance to the church

Detail of the cathedral

Detail of the support system of the cathedral

View from the cathedral

Kamča

Fruits and vegies

The stone house

40 km/h

Depot

Lockers in the train station in Kolín

Wtf?

Inside the café

Lights

Menu and a cup for money

Light on the table

Buchlovice

Wine tasting in Buchlovice… What to say? Should I repeat myself again? I think this is one of the top events of the winter season. Taste wine selection, see friends… Take lot of pictures…

Cellar

Martin

Church in Buchlovice

Tree pattern

Peacocks

No entry

Chateau of Buchlovice corridor

Pouring wine

Nobody should tell me that wine shouldn’t be drunk as shots!

Which one to choose?

Hard to tell…

Finished

Martin and Bucina

Some music

Pavlík bought again some toy… And again had to tell us long excuses why did he buy it…

Fight!

Martin and Bucina

Prepared to pour the wine…

Filling up the glasses

Kamča

Bucina

(-;

Fill up those glasses!

Scared to death!

Martin fighting with his girl

Cross on the mountain edge

Nový Hrozenkov is a classic holiday destination of my friends. At least twice every year.

Pastorate

Grandpa’s cottage

Preparing shots

Peťa

Peťa

Peťa

There was a lot of snow

Pavlík and Peťa

Train bridge

Tree above the old cottage

In the fields

Peťa and Pavlík trying to get some wood

Friends must help when Pavlík can’t walk

Lumber-jacks

Nový Hrozenkov

Cooling beer

Sledging – dog first, Pavlík next

After finish

Sledging

Pavlík breaking

Witch

Bitches

Department of Textile and Fashion Design in Liberec makes a fashion exhibition after the end of each semester. These pictures are from school’s gallery in Jablonec.

From the top

Curtains

Mr. Palata talking… Others sleeping… (-;

Anička

Eliška

Eliška

Kamča

Bitches

Textile table

Kamča’s model

Textile feet

Curtain

Nikola’s work

Markéta and her work

Markéta – detail

Marta’s work

Nikola

Again a little late – I was too lazy to publish these pictures sooner. But anyway, we gathered in Sofie’s flat to make a small party to celebrate New year! The theme was StarTrek. Everybody was supposed to bring some light sword. I think me and Kamča, we won the content as our swords were not simply lightning, but also blinking and screaming!

František

František shaking and dancing…

František and Gikola

Nikola and Anička fighting

Nikola and Anička still fighting

Anička dead after the fight

Sylva with my sword

Sylva with my sword

Guy with a little of explosives

Sofie

Nikola

Opening the champagne

František and rocket

Somebody preparing fireworks

František, Nikola and Sofie

Anička

Somebody took my camera and shoot an animation of me and Kamča

Nikola loves her!

Kamča and Nikola, at first having own partners

Then they realised there is somebody else than the figures…

so after a while they started dancing together

and this is the ecstasy

View over the city

These pictures are from archive from last summer from city Zlín. Zlín is famous because of Baťa and his shoe factory. He had helped to make a city from a village. He hired two architects – Gahura and Karfík. They both made a new city of a new age. Gahura came up with urbanistic plan and Karfík designed few legendary buildings like house for workers, Baťa skyscraper.

Skyscraper

Some photos are from museum in the famous Baťa scyscraper where is located city council.

Entrance to the sckyscraper

Scyscraper

Inside Baťa museum

Inside Baťa museum

Inside Baťa museum

Famous Baťa’s office in the lift

View through luxfer window

Skyscraper from the bottom

Skyscraper

An old factory

On the roof of the scyscraper

Trolleybuses

Kamča

Trolleybus

Baťa’s houses (from a car)

New university library

Theatre

View to the north

View to the south

Stolen in the train (-;

Designblok is an annual design exhibition that takes place in Prague. Pretty much every designer wants to be there. Sadly, lot of stuff it is quite shit as people just don’t care about quality of their presentation, but they prefer just to be there. Thus I’m not sure if it’s worth the time.

Geek’s workplace

At first, the organisation is quite shit – besides two main buildings, you have no idea where to go (it’s even hard to figure out those two buildings). The web is also quite shit – you have no idea where you should go, what is good and what is just crap. Information overcrowd… Secondly, there is not that much to see. Besides that, it’s quite commercial action. It looks like many companies and individuals just buy a place there to show their clothes or overpriced furniture by telling us just this is design, so it must be pricey… And then you make an idiot from yourself and go to the shop and you see what? Nothing… What more, as some exhibition halls are included in the project, they charge extra money for entry besides the money you paid for Designblok. It’s just some ridiculous money for one room with nothing – like DOX – I’m so glad I didn’t go there. Also lot of people dress like from advertisement to look cool (read as to look the same as most others there – young, promising, cool, modern, active, vital – append any modern cliche you can think of). Some people who came to exhibit probably prepared their works just a day before the exhibition. So at the end, you have a feeling that some works were cool, lot of ok design, but at some you ask yourself – what the fuck is this doing here?! The real question is a little different one – is this thing really worth the time? And I’m not really sure about that.

Kamča sleeping

Ok, it was enough of complaints! There were also some cool things!

Wall decoration

Porcelain

Modern flat must include a little bit of nature

Floor

Toasts

A small kitchen (-;

Cannot be open – wtf?

A light

A chair

Grabštejn – a village without church, but with a factory and a nice castle

One nice day I went with Kamča to a small afternoon trip to a castle Grabštejn near Liberec.

A mini submarine

Abandoned home

Chrastava train station

Train station Grabštejn – abandoned

Trees in the train station

National heritage institute

The first yard

In a yard of the castle

Kitchen from two centuries ago

Landscape near Grabštejn

McDonalds were not first with that logo!

Roof

Roof

Yard

In the tower

Stairs

In the basement

That’s how do they live here – with flowers

Grabštejn

Exhibition of gems

Day after the birthday, we went to the park to play frisbee, and to drink some beers.

Maky

Míša and Sofie

Kamča

Sofie catching the frisbee

Matouš

Sofie

Nikola

Matouš

Me, Maky, Kamča and Matouš

Tourists…

Clock at the townhall

Vašek doing something with the model of the city centre

Vašek riding a motorbike

Sleeping Matouš

Nikola, me, Kamča and sleeping Matouš

Sleeping Matouš

Vašek and Matouš eating late dinner

Dissolved bonbon

We continued with building during the night and the next day. We finished the buildings inside, and made some roofs, and finished up everything. And how did we end? Well, quite simply, we ate the whole castle… (-;

Buildings inside

Putting floor on the walls

Nikola

Nikola

Some more water, please

Kamča

Pepa watching

The castle in the evening, the next day

The first tower was just assembled

Detail of the cheese tower

Castle from the back

The castle with the second, cheese and ham tower

Let’s eat it!

Everybody was a little shy, but Pepa got to the work really rapidly

Castle in the middle of destruction

Just keep everything clean

Me

Monkey and the deer

Almost eaten

After the destruction

When I arrived to Nikola’s place, there was just a desk with some perník with green topping on it. The construction itself had started just some minutes before my arrival and continued till early morning hours…

just the beginning

Preparing dough for walls

Refreshment… It was exhausting, specially for those at the computer…

The puppets watching us

Beer was served in small portions, but in a big amount

Serial killer’s face (-;

Then we started putting walls together with a glue from sugar

This is how was it put together

In the mean time, we were constructing the bridge from bonbons

Magor showing his great muscles

(-;

The bridge is finished (-;

Anička and Magor

Some walls up

Nikola licking her fingers…

Kamča

The castle from top

Dinner time, many hungry people, lot of great spaghetti with zucchini

Hmmmm

Now let’s make some water

It was a pain to get the jelly done

Busy Sylva

Nikola with jelly

Now it was the time to put the water where it should be

Nikola

Entrance to the castle

Sylva

A castle

Nikola’s and Sylva’s birthday party is an annual event that is gaining stronger and stronger popularity, and more and more people are coming. This year, we also did a birthday cake, but not a kid as the last time, but a sweet castle.

Doing snacks

Honzík

Sylva took care about the beer (-;

And Honzík doesn’t know how to start it up

Pepa passes through the fence

Sofie

Preparing our security guy

He even got a gun

They started eating so early!

Snack

At this party, no animals were killed or hurt…

When Nikola tells you she doesn’t smoke, you know what…

Sylva and her present

Kamča

Anička

Preparing Magor’s beer hand

It’s done!

And in action

Supo was a present himself

Ok, so for this time, we end here. The next part tomorrow, and as you might guess, it got a little wilder (-;

Nikola and a pig

Martin and Tomáš waiting

The last day of the weekend in Nový Hrozenkov, we went to a small trip (as usually) to a tourist cottage Kohútka on the Czech-Slovak border. MAP and website.

Pavlík, a happy guy

Kamča picking some forest berries

Landskape in Beskydy mountains

Cottage Kohútka

Mountain patrol

Pavlík

Two men prepared to fight

Martin and Bucina

Martin and Bucina and dog

A field on the other hill

Warning! A state border

When light signal is broken and there is snow, this is the schedule of allowed times going uphill and downhill.

Trisťa waiting for us

View thru the forest

Trisťa hunting something

Trisťa

Martin is showing us we are his best friends

Deer

Trisťa far away

Kamča picking some berries

View from Kohútka to the side we have never been to

Weighlifting competition in Nový Hrozenkov

Nový Hrozenkov is a village of weightlifters. As we have learned, the people don’t do anything else than lift these heavy weights. At the first look they are much more robust than the normal population. Just have a look at the women how strong they are!

At every village even, there must be a grilled pig…

So how does this competition looks like?

Group laughing Pavel

Pavel wanted to show us again that he is not an average animator sitting all the time in front of his computer, but that he is also doing something more. So he brought his boxing gloves and started showing us how good he is… (-;

Pavel before fight

Pavel under Mimoň’s attack

Pavel and Mimoň

Pavel trying to beat Mimoň, but guess who is laughing (-;

Peťa and Karel

Peťa in bush

Don’t forget to hide your face when you attack

Pavel and Miloš

Pavel getting crazy, it’s better to run away

Miloš is still laughing…

Martin was showing us who is the king

Feel the pain

Despite the previous picture, Pavel was hardly loosing…

Missed one

Petra sleeping

As usually, we spend a weekend every year at Pavel’s weekend house strengthening our brotherhood.

Martin has a reason to be happy

Somewhere are tractors, somewhere are horses and somewhere

Beer

Our cinema

Some farm

Sheep

On the way to the water

Fields

Not a car, a house

River

Our crew

I agree, they are disgusting

Water

Village in the evening

In the evening, we didn’t want to drink with the others, but we rather separated and played pétanque.

The most important things for pétanque – wine

Pétanque balls

A train

Kamča

Oldřich is watching how good Martin is

The best one is leaving us

Wine….

Pétanque

Tomáš playing

The last day we spent mostly hanging out in various pubs. No wonder, it was way too hot. At night, we have seen a theatre.

Beerfather

Kamča

Kamča

Dancing on the cooking-stove

Warning: it is forbidden to play this movies on public

Horse sausage

Slovácké muzeum

Port

Theatre

Theatre

Kino Hvězda at night

Kino Hvězda at night

Triple with black glasses

We spent the second day mostly going around various pubs, sometimes we went to watch some film, and in the evening we went to concert of a band called Hm.

Like in a village

UFO…

Sex club

Trabant

Gardening

People leaving hockey stadium after some film

Sylva

Hm concert

RIght before the concert

Lonely violin

Hm……

Almost Magor

Old farm

Summer Film School (LFS) is not really a school of film, but rather an independent film festival with some additional tutorials and presentations about films for public. But for me it usually means watching some films in between visiting local bars. LFS takes place in the last two weeks every july in Uherské Hradiště. This year was the first year without former arts director Jiří Králík which had a good reputation for being arts director, but was horrible as a manager and what more he was loosing money, distracting sponsor and doing such crazy things. And as we know, you never want to loose or waste any money. You can find out more at http://www.lfs.cz/

Verča

This year, I went there for there for three days. LFS was not really bad this year, but I reckon the previous years were more interesting for me. Maybe in the previous year I spent more times in the pubs and then watching any film was kinda better… Or maybe I spent more time in cinemas… I don’t know… (-;

We were so lucky to wait half hour to get around this

A detail

We took train from Prague to Uherské Hradiště, but there were two unexpected accidents on the way. In the first one, we had to wait for about half hour to get from one track to another parallel because there was a train that slipped off the track and so we had to avoid it. Czech Railways couldn’t work any faster! And few kilometres before Olomouc somebody jumped bellow a train heading towards us, so we were waiting again…

Řezané pivo – dark top, light bottom

In Uherské Hradiště we stayed at Verča, a friend of Kamila. Later arrived also Sylva and my brother. The first day afternoon, just after we arrived, we went to a pub in an old farm for a luxury beer.

On the way to beer

Horses

Old farm

Kamča and Verča

Řezané pivo – dark top, light bottom

Horse licking iron

Path around Morava river in Uherské Hradiště

La pétanque is a traditional french game played all around France. Two weeks ago me, Kamča and Aurélien went to play it to the park in Nusle. Rules @ Wikipedia.

Aurélien

Aurélien also brought Pastis, anise flavoured French liqueor.

Kamča

Me

Kamča

Kamča

Railways bridge

Aurélien and Kamča

Kamča

Steak

Shama

Highway bridge

One of the cubistic houses on the way to the park

Štěpánka and Kamča at the map of local trails

One day when it wasn’t raining in Liberec, we went to a small walk behind the town to the forest…

Map of local trails

Filling bottles

Filling bottles

Štěpánka

Štěpánka

Potraviny – groceries

Where to go?

Laboratory of sports (-;

Štěpánka poured her soup over all the table

Zebra (= road crossing)

Vyšehrad

Vyšehrad is an old fortress across the river where do I live. The fortress is quite old, its roots belong to the 10^th century when it used to be Czech dukes castle. Nowadays, you can see baroque fortress surrounded by massive walls. In between the walls you can find St. Paul and St. Peter church, and a national cementery where are burried many important persons of our history. Besides all of this, it’s also a nice place for a walk. Look @ Czech (but much better) or English Wikipedia for more info.

One of cubistic villas

Cubism is an artistic style that emphasizes geometric lines in arts. The Czech Republic is the only country where the cubism become also an architecture style. You can find two nice cubistic buildings below Vyšehrad – one villa and one block house.

Gate to the fortress

Massive walls

Tram and biker

Vine

Prague roofs

The train bridge

On the way to the bridge

Prague panorama

Panorama on the south

Panorama on the south