Today, on Saturday, March 27th please turn your lights down for one hour at 0830 pm of your local time and spread message that you care about global climate change.
People started to switched their lights off in 2008 in Sydney. Next year all planet joined, take your action this year and contribute to the biggest voluntary petition in the world.
I am going to join ... it is going to interesting to see how i ll staay away from facebook, twitter and gmail for one hour :)) But there are symbolic events in cities all over the world. Here at Czech Republic 14 cities participates. For more details go to Earth Hour.com
Peace to World!!
Iref
Saturday 27 March 2010
Wednesday 24 March 2010
Saturday in Prague
Hey everyone,
Me and my friends decided that we must get out from Brno. And inspired by our friends who spent weekend in Paris two weeks ago, our choice was to visit Czech capital Prague, do some sightseeing, walk around old town and Small side... simply enjoy town little bit.
I woke up at 6.15am ... pretty early ... and bloody difficult for me... after quick breakfast we left our warm dorm room and took public transfer to railway station. Very nice lady at ticket box who gently told me that my student discount card (by the way INTERNATIONAL) is not valid for buying domestic ticket but she suggested buying group ticket ... she was really nice and her look of murderer just kept scaring me.
Anyway, we finally got our tickets and took EC to PRague. Train car was really good and it was silent there so we spent most of time chatting and enjoying road and country behind window.
When we finally arrived to Prague. Capital welcomed us with cloudy but warm weather and huge line for subway tickets, so we decided to give it a chance at subway stop near National museum, which is near Main railway station. After we got our day-long tickets we jumped on subway and go to visit Prague square and music shop, which is situated near by. After we checked stuff we had wanted (and of course buy nothing ;)) . We headed to Carl square and went straight to little pub near square called Parachute' s. It' s really nice, stylish place with lot of photos of czechoslovak troopers, who fought during World War II and other military stuff. They makes really great meal there and relatively cheap for Prague city centre. We had lunch and couples of beers and we finally made plan for rest of the day.
After lunch we took public transport to Vaclav square and after we visited traditional trade market, we walked throught old, narrow streets of old town prague to old city square just in time to see all saints ringing new hour at huge Prague Orloj. We also saw bride who had just got married in church and posed for all crazy italian tourists , who just happened to be around. Good luck to happy couple. :)
That we continued our tour out of streets of old town to Carl' s bridge another CAN'T miss prague attraction ( at least they say that). Prague has definitely changed during last few years since i visited last time. More tourists, more souvenirs shops, more turkish kebap shops in old town and less and less of old , medieval Prague.
But some things haven't changed for ages and one of them are stairs to prague castle. They are still many of them, in fact i think someone added new one's :). Another option is that i just need to workout more, but i simple deprecate this devil thoughts. :) After we arrived in such pompous, swetty and hardbreathing style to castle we found out that Prince Charles is visiting Czech president and he has quite policemen squad with him . But historical part of castle was opened so we walked throught old paths around cathedral and just for a little while we were back in 16th century. Or we would be if there was no cafe with 60kc expresso and spanish guys shouting something to each other.
After we "climbed down " to subway we all agreed we need something to eat so we exit subway at station Flora and had great raspberry cake. It was still only 4pm and our train was supposed to leave back to Brno at 1930. So we headed back to city center and enjoyed orloy each hour ceremony for second time. We also saw crazy looking bicycle for 6 people + driver. The most interesting thing about it was that riders sitted our "table"... group of mexican students were pretty excited about it and took like 3 rides on this... conference bike :) They enjoyed their time, they were singing spanish song and we enjoyed time with them... after orloj did its thing (ok that sounds strange but you know i mean). We visited couple of shops and since we didn' t have other ideas what to do, except quite expensive drinking few beers. We took earlier train back to our college town and some of us eventually got their beer there ;p
We had really good day in Prague and we definitely wanna to visit it again. Some photos .... not very good photos...
Me and my friends decided that we must get out from Brno. And inspired by our friends who spent weekend in Paris two weeks ago, our choice was to visit Czech capital Prague, do some sightseeing, walk around old town and Small side... simply enjoy town little bit.
I woke up at 6.15am ... pretty early ... and bloody difficult for me... after quick breakfast we left our warm dorm room and took public transfer to railway station. Very nice lady at ticket box who gently told me that my student discount card (by the way INTERNATIONAL) is not valid for buying domestic ticket but she suggested buying group ticket ... she was really nice and her look of murderer just kept scaring me.
Anyway, we finally got our tickets and took EC to PRague. Train car was really good and it was silent there so we spent most of time chatting and enjoying road and country behind window.
When we finally arrived to Prague. Capital welcomed us with cloudy but warm weather and huge line for subway tickets, so we decided to give it a chance at subway stop near National museum, which is near Main railway station. After we got our day-long tickets we jumped on subway and go to visit Prague square and music shop, which is situated near by. After we checked stuff we had wanted (and of course buy nothing ;)) . We headed to Carl square and went straight to little pub near square called Parachute' s. It' s really nice, stylish place with lot of photos of czechoslovak troopers, who fought during World War II and other military stuff. They makes really great meal there and relatively cheap for Prague city centre. We had lunch and couples of beers and we finally made plan for rest of the day.
After lunch we took public transport to Vaclav square and after we visited traditional trade market, we walked throught old, narrow streets of old town prague to old city square just in time to see all saints ringing new hour at huge Prague Orloj. We also saw bride who had just got married in church and posed for all crazy italian tourists , who just happened to be around. Good luck to happy couple. :)
That we continued our tour out of streets of old town to Carl' s bridge another CAN'T miss prague attraction ( at least they say that). Prague has definitely changed during last few years since i visited last time. More tourists, more souvenirs shops, more turkish kebap shops in old town and less and less of old , medieval Prague.
But some things haven't changed for ages and one of them are stairs to prague castle. They are still many of them, in fact i think someone added new one's :). Another option is that i just need to workout more, but i simple deprecate this devil thoughts. :) After we arrived in such pompous, swetty and hardbreathing style to castle we found out that Prince Charles is visiting Czech president and he has quite policemen squad with him . But historical part of castle was opened so we walked throught old paths around cathedral and just for a little while we were back in 16th century. Or we would be if there was no cafe with 60kc expresso and spanish guys shouting something to each other.
After we "climbed down " to subway we all agreed we need something to eat so we exit subway at station Flora and had great raspberry cake. It was still only 4pm and our train was supposed to leave back to Brno at 1930. So we headed back to city center and enjoyed orloy each hour ceremony for second time. We also saw crazy looking bicycle for 6 people + driver. The most interesting thing about it was that riders sitted our "table"... group of mexican students were pretty excited about it and took like 3 rides on this... conference bike :) They enjoyed their time, they were singing spanish song and we enjoyed time with them... after orloj did its thing (ok that sounds strange but you know i mean). We visited couple of shops and since we didn' t have other ideas what to do, except quite expensive drinking few beers. We took earlier train back to our college town and some of us eventually got their beer there ;p
We had really good day in Prague and we definitely wanna to visit it again. Some photos .... not very good photos...
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| Praha |
Friday 22 January 2010
ExchangesConnect Video Contest - Change Your Climate, Change Our World.
Hey everyone,
I' ve just found email from OpenSource University member Marie Evelyn Cerdeno, who made this movie about Climate change for ExchangesConnect Video Contest - Change Your Climate, Change Our World. As we all know climate change is serious problem these days. So please try to help and go to website of ExchangeConnect, watch videos and learn more.
Here is Marie's video:
You can also view and rate this video here.
I' ve just found email from OpenSource University member Marie Evelyn Cerdeno, who made this movie about Climate change for ExchangesConnect Video Contest - Change Your Climate, Change Our World. As we all know climate change is serious problem these days. So please try to help and go to website of ExchangeConnect, watch videos and learn more.
Here is Marie's video:
You can also view and rate this video here.
Monday 18 January 2010
Winter finally arrived to Brno
Hey everyone,
it is January 18th and it is snowing outside !!! Nothing special if you live at the northern Europe or Alaska ;), but if you spent last year's winter in central europe you know why i am so excited :) What can i say ... global warming in the best form. Anyway in Brno public transport is quite suprised about this situation ( who could know ??!) so transportation in the city is pretty screwed. Unfortunately I can't go skiing right now because of exams. But I hope snow is going to stay with us till the end of January so I can enjoy it much more, not like now when i have to study. So this are news from Brno for now. I am going to add some pictures from city.
Ohh something else I started to play poker again. Maybe little more about it later.
it is January 18th and it is snowing outside !!! Nothing special if you live at the northern Europe or Alaska ;), but if you spent last year's winter in central europe you know why i am so excited :) What can i say ... global warming in the best form. Anyway in Brno public transport is quite suprised about this situation ( who could know ??!) so transportation in the city is pretty screwed. Unfortunately I can't go skiing right now because of exams. But I hope snow is going to stay with us till the end of January so I can enjoy it much more, not like now when i have to study. So this are news from Brno for now. I am going to add some pictures from city.
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| Brnennska kalamita 2010 |
Ohh something else I started to play poker again. Maybe little more about it later.
Friday 20 February 2009
First blog - quite common post
Hi everyone,
this is my first blog on blogger.com and also this is my blog in english. I ve got also slovak version of blog at myjulylove.spaces.live.com. SO first thing i wanna do is translating my previous blogs from slovak to english.
This blog will (probably) about my trips abroad, my life at Brno, where I study nowadays and other things which i ll find out enought interesting to write about .
So maybe it would be good to introduce myself. My name is Jan Ferko. I am 18 and i ve been studying computer science at Masaryk University since last September.I am from small town Michalovce ,Slovak Republic. In my free time i like reading, listening music, going out with my friends, playing basketbal, traaveling (only during holidays) and learning asian languages ( i ve just begun).
So thats me ... hopefully you found this post or me little bit interesting and you are looking forward to first real blog, which is going to be blog series Enter to China , I was writing it in June during my trip to China and now i wanna translate it . So stay tuned!
Jan "Julylove" Ferko
this is my first blog on blogger.com and also this is my blog in english. I ve got also slovak version of blog at myjulylove.spaces.live.com. SO first thing i wanna do is translating my previous blogs from slovak to english.
This blog will (probably) about my trips abroad, my life at Brno, where I study nowadays and other things which i ll find out enought interesting to write about .
So maybe it would be good to introduce myself. My name is Jan Ferko. I am 18 and i ve been studying computer science at Masaryk University since last September.I am from small town Michalovce ,Slovak Republic. In my free time i like reading, listening music, going out with my friends, playing basketbal, traaveling (only during holidays) and learning asian languages ( i ve just begun).
So thats me ... hopefully you found this post or me little bit interesting and you are looking forward to first real blog, which is going to be blog series Enter to China , I was writing it in June during my trip to China and now i wanna translate it . So stay tuned!
Jan "Julylove" Ferko
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