A couple of Danish bloggers are continuing the tradition started last year by Pollas of making a Christmas Calendar of videos. Here is my contribution:
See last years joint calendar Video Jul 2006 (link seems broken) and this years Video Jul 2007.Check also my Christmas video from 2006 and Christmas video greeting from US in 2005.
Update – came across this cute description today of the Prague Christmas market.
I decided to try and hitchhike the 900 km from Prague, Czech Republic to Århus in Denmark. Here is my story.
Music is Virus by Mikael Simpson.
I’m back in Denmark for a while. Spent two days hitchhiking the 900 km from Prague, Czech Republic to århus in Denmark. It’s going to be a couple of days hanging out with friends and family back here in the Mothercountry. It was a fun trip home and it’s really nice to be back 🙂 I’ll write more when I got more time. A video should also be coming up.
Update the video is here:
Julien from expat-blogs.com asked me if I she could make an interview with me because I had been chosen as the blog of the month for her site 
Expat Blogs is a site that lists blogs from expatriates in different countries. Go check out the site and the blogs that are listed there. You will find a lot of interesting stories.
Click here to read the interview with me.
Yesterday the local committees of IAESTE in Prague organized the annual IAESTE Day to promote the IAESTE programs at different universities across the world. I was happy they asked me if I wanted to give a presentation about how I had benefited from IAESTE. So I told the story of How I Ended Up In Prague Because of IAESTE (Some of it is on page three of this IAESTE UK alumni newsletter). It s been a while since I had done a presentation but I really enjoyed the afternoon talking with people about going abroad.
Even better was the evening were they had organized a banquette for business contacts, alumis and member. Good and free food and drinks is a great thing that I come across way to seldom.
These past seven days my parents have been in Prague and it s been great seeing them again and showing off this great city. Prague has gone in autumn mode but the weather was with us and most of the days, the sun was out making the city beautiful.
My parents were in Prague 34 years ago on sort of a honeymoon in the dark days of communism, coal burning, side street money exchange and disrepair. What met them today was a very different sight. They were very thrilled about what the city had become. Almost all of the central city has been repaired and today it s an amazing trip to walk through the city both at day and at night.
They asked me if I never get tired of living out of a suitcase and that got me thinking. First off Prague is my home now, so I don t consider it living in a suitcase. It didn t take long before I felt very comfortable here. I also realized that I don t need that much to be comfortable. As long as I have a place I can call mine with a bed and another place to sit with my computer I can manage.
We are sticking around in Prague for another 8 months and then it s time to move again. Where to is still up in the air
Joanna one of the AIESEC girls from Ann Arbor was in Prague for autumn break as well so we went out and had lunch with her. Great catching up on old days.
Last week I got my first visit from Denmark Solveig my aunt and Jens came by for five days. They brought me some aquavit and winter clothes which was useful since the autumn seems to have seriously taken its grasp on Prague.
I showed them some of Prague and on their own they discovered some areas like the Jewish cemetaries that I still havent been to. One thing I discovered when they were here was the beutiful Wallenstein Garden below the castle. A really nice (and free) spot in the middle of the city.
Rasmus from the Danish BlogMagasinet asked in one of the recent podcasts, how we use blogs to meet people. So I figured I’d tell about how I’ve used it here in Prague.
Before I moved down here I search on google.com, technorati.com, blogbot.dk or overskrift.dk for people blogging about Prague in either Danish or English and I found two Danes.
The first one is Laus Sørensen. Laus runs the vacation agency Prag Eksperten and has made a business from renting apartments and giving tours to Danes. He is blogging at prag.urbanblog.dk were he writes about the city, his business and his friends. As a newcomer in town there is definitely some good information about the city and his company site has the most comprehensive site about Prague in Danish.
A couple of weeks ago I went to dinner with Laus at U Maleho Glena (picture above) a very cool jazz spot in Prague. We talked about the city, running businesses and realized that we both have parents in Jylland so maybe we can carpool to Denmark sometime.
The second Dane is Holme but he is actually not in town yet. He is going to stay in Prague for a year with his Czech girl friend while studying. I think he is moving down here sometime in August so I’ll try and see if I can catch him over a pivo sometime.
In my daily life I only speak English – apart from when I’m calling home – so it’s nice that there is a few Danes in town.
There is of course also a number of English blogs about life in Prague. The ones that I am keeping a tap on these days are:
[Update 18/9 ’07] Just came across another Dane in Prague called Pavel-Helge – he has a lot of updated info in Danish about what’s going on in Prague.
[Update 14/1 ’08] Just came across another Danish blog about Prague called Prag HotSpots by Jens Gregersen.
Back in 1631 a Swedish army invaded Prague and now they are back! – This time with a more peaceful aim.
Backsell the Swede was an intern in Michigan at the same time as Femi and I and after spending a year in Germany him and Toni (another Swede) did a trip of central Europe before heading home.
It s a weekend of Swedish style drinking, snus chewing snus ing and partying sprinkled with a little touristy activities in the mix.
My parents asked me for a video of our place. I made the video Friday – it s in Danish so if you don t understand you have to follow the plan below for explanations.
Here is the ground plan of the place.
The stairs you can see outside of the house are the once shown below here. They led to the Belohorska street were the trams goes. So even though we live at the ground level there are still three stories of stairs to climb to get home
