At school, I had an interest in the Crimea war, from the poem, the lessons about the charge of the light brigade, the film, the Thin red line painting, and Nightingale as my mother was a nurse. It does promote pride in your country. Had my ancestors papers translated by my gf a couple of years...
As regards statues..theres a few here :lol:
David Cerny, the enfant terrible of Czech art, wanted to put a 6 foot golden statue (and water feature) of a man masturbating on top of the Narodni Divadlo building.
Wouldnt you just love to have been in the city meeting when the application was...
If somebody has left NSC over 'abuse' then I think it must have been NSC wide, or the user is a bit oversensitive. Remove yourself from a thread, fair enough. From NSC.. a bit daft, and I doubt it is the case tbh.
The American pilots have voiced their regret many times. The history of the 398th Bombardment Group based at RAF Nuthampstead, which carried out the raid, indicates the attack was an accident. The radar navigational equipment on the aircraft was not functioning correctly and high winds en route...
The Dancing House building here was built on the area destroyed by US Bombers precision bombing. They mistook Prague for Dresden. When you manage to bomb the wrong city, I'm not sure their precision criteria was the same as other nations I think i read the USAAF was also assigned to bomb Dresden...
No. No Oktoberfest, just feels like it most of the time. Couple of places I go to still allow smoking, but im pretty sure they have some sort of police protection.
Couple of things going on...
SIGNAL Light Festival
Date: 12 October 2017 - 15 October 2017
The SIGNAL Festival is an open-air...
The no smoking ban has arrived, so a lot of the local bars are now pretty empty, especially as its sunny and beer gardens offer an option. Zizkov, large beer (0.5l) is around 30kc. Food in places outside the center are still very good value. A Czech friend of mine told me years ago that all the...
Scottish soldiers has reminded me of Christmas 1974 in Singapore :smile:
On Christmas eve, five off us headed towards Singapore City from Sembawang. Decided on the way to stop at the English pub/restaurant in Nee Soon famed for its Lobster. Opened the door, and was confronted with a brawl...
When I first came here, there was plenty of Roma whores in Wenceslas. I used to go the reggae bar in Kravlovska which mean walking up Wenceslas. Same woman came up to me every night I went there saying 'sex'?
On the 4th time, I said, yeah ok, do you speak English?
Yes Yes!
Ok, if you want me...