Miami, Florida, United States - 2nd September 2010
By: tarepanda
It was a nice time in Florida, and I got to visit Hong Kong too! I have been to four continentals already! Now that I have rested my wings a bit I am flying back to Europe for the winter! (I know, usually birds fly south for winter but hey I am a unique one!)
Today I say good bye to all the dear friends I met here. Hopefully we will get to meet again, some where, some day!

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Posted Sep 8, 2010, 5:32 pm
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Balcarka cave, Czech Republic - 30th October 2010
By: dzejna
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Posted Oct 31, 2010, 6:38 pm Last edited Oct 31, 2010, 6:39 pm by dzejna
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Pilsner Urquell Brewery, Czech Republic - 11th November 2010
By: dzejna
Hi everybody,
this week my host´s husband went to a scientific conference held in Plzen city. You may not know that famous „pilsner“ or „pils“ beer all around the world has been named after Plzen (originally Pilsen in German).
Most of the time we spent in a hotel, while our host daddy was listening to speeches and presenting his research. (He is sort of crazy scientist working with something like acoustic emission, you know?!)
However, part of venue program was an excursion into the infamous Pilsner Urquell Brewery. And we have loads of images for you.
Check it out!
In the first hall we have seen the barley-malt preparation facility (there was a strange smell in the air that I have never experienced
before).
In the next hall, shiny copper boil tanks demonstrated original way
of brewing. They don´t use them anymore, most of the production
comes from modern, PC-controlled stainless steel tanks. The old
ones, however, are much nicer.
Here, you can see me on a drainage valve that I tried to turn.
However, it was too heavy for me. The guide suddenly saw me
there so I jumped back into the host daddy pocket.
This is a dispatcher cabin with all the PCs and control systems.
Booooring!
These are the new steel tanks I mentioned earlier.
Brewery underground consists of many kilometers of corridors and
cellars. We have seen giant wooden barrels. There, some special
beers are aging.
We have been even offered a small taste-beer. This beer was
non-filtered and non-pasterized. You cannot imagine how tasty and
aromatic it was! Yummy!
That’s it for now! Take care and stay tuned, because more is coming from
Thiele
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Posted Nov 13, 2010, 6:23 pm Last edited Nov 13, 2010, 6:24 pm by dzejna
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Veveri castle, Czech Republic - 12th November 2010
By: dzejna
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Posted Nov 18, 2010, 6:34 pm Last edited Dec 18, 2010, 3:02 pm by dzejna
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Olomouc, Czech Republic - 24th November 2010
By: dzejna
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Posted Dec 18, 2010, 3:14 pm Last edited Dec 18, 2010, 3:15 pm by dzejna
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Moravian Karst, Czech Republic - 24th December 2010
By: dzejna
Hello again,
here is my Christmas Holiday report
On 23rd December we went to Brno. It is the second largest city in the Czech Republic. We wanted to look at the traditional Christmas market there.
We saw big Christmas tree, wooden crib, a little bell – you are supposed to make a wish when ringing it.
We also came across this funny sculpture watch. Do not ask me, I have no idea how to read time on it…
Next day it was the 24th December (Christmas Eve for us, but they call it “the generous day“ here).
It is the main holiday day here in the Czech Republic. You are supposed to decorate the tree and prepare a magnificent dinner. After the dinner it is present-giving time.
So first we helped with the tree decorations… look.
And later we helped with cooking. The traditional dinner is a fish (mainly carp) and potato salad. We did the salad like this (watch and learn):
First you have to cook potatoes, carrot and celery.
While we were cooking it, our host mum made a homemade mayonnaise.
Now, when the vegetable is cooked, you need to peel it and cut it on small pieces and put it into some bowl.
Add carrot and celery…
Add potatoes…
Add pickled pea and also pickled cucumbers.
Add two boiled eggs cut into pieces.
Add the mayonnaise, salt, pepper…
After you mix it all together you are done. If it is too thick add some extra cucumber pickle water.
Now you leave it in a fridge (or just outside the house) for couple hours to cool down and you are ready to dig in.
Here I am getting ready for the dinner.
And finally present-giving time! We TV´s got this one all together. It was full of yummy sweets, mainly local ones that we had never seen before.
And here we are all together under the Christmas tree. It is nice to spend this special time with good friends!
Love, Thiele
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Moscow, Russian Federation - 29th January 2011
By: helloNatash
Sorry for the delay, we were very busy this week)
Today I want to show you some photo of our walk in the centre of Moscow - Red Square
It was snowy and so enjoyable!
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Moscow, Russian Federation - 31st January 2011
By: helloNatash
Yesterday we were near the Bolishoy Theatre
and meet a great collection of russian toys - matreshkas)
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