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The Soviet invasion of 1968 and its aftermath 24 Aug 2013 | 11:29 pm
Memorial to the victims of the Soviet invasion of August 1968 © Ricky Yates This past week saw the forty-fifth anniversary of the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Red Army, which brought to a...
Senior Cat Oscar 18 Aug 2013 | 11:33 pm
Oscar enjoying the sunshine by the balcony door © Ricky Yates It is three and a half years since I wrote a blog post about the third member of our family – Oscar the cat. Other than an occasional pas...
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The Soviet invasion of 1968 and its aftermath rickyyates.com 24 Aug 2013 | 11:29 pm
Memorial to the victims of the Soviet invasion of August 1968 © Ricky Yates This past week saw the forty-fifth anniversary of the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Red Army, which brought to a...
Senior Cat Oscar rickyyates.com 18 Aug 2013 | 11:33 pm
Oscar enjoying the sunshine by the balcony door © Ricky Yates It is three and a half years since I wrote a blog post about the third member of our family – Oscar the cat. Other than an occasional pas...
Wedding at Bouzov Castle rickyyates.com 9 Aug 2013 | 01:39 am
Bouzov Castle © Ricky Yates On Monday 29th July, I conducted my first wedding of 2013, when Daniel, the British bridegroom, married Iva, his Czech bride, at Bouzov Castle. The castle lies in the roll...
July 2013 visit to the UK rickyyates.com 6 Aug 2013 | 01:18 am
Phillip outside the ‘Trip to Jerusalem’ © Ricky Yates On Tuesday 2nd July, Sybille and I returned to Prague from our eight day holiday in the Orlické hory. The next afternoon, having managed to wash,...
Hrad Litice / Litice Castle rickyyates.com 4 Aug 2013 | 01:22 am
Litice Castle © Ricky Yates In advance of our recent holiday in the Orlické hory, I followed my usual practice and spent some time examining detailed maps of the area, looking for interesting places ...
The joys of Czech public transport rickyyates.com 28 Jul 2013 | 03:32 am
Diesel car ‘Verunka’ © Ricky Yates The Czech Republic has one the most dense rail networks in the whole of Europe. One of the very few benefits of over forty years of communist rule is that nearly al...
Orlické hory rickyyates.com 24 Jul 2013 | 08:23 pm
The Orlické hory from Masarykova chata © Ricky Yates This post will be more pictures than words, in an effort to give a broader overview of the Orlické hory / Adlergebirge / Eagle Mountains. All the ...
Czechoslovak border fortifications rickyyates.com 18 Jul 2013 | 03:51 am
Border fortification in the Orlické hory © Ricky Yates At the end of the First World War, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, President (1918-1935) of the newly declared independent nation of Czechoslovakia, was...
Neratov rickyyates.com 12 Jul 2013 | 01:56 am
Neratov Church © Ricky Yates Neratov is a small village located on the eastern side of the Orlické hory, in the valley of the Divorká Orlice – ‘Wild Eagle River’, which forms the border between the C...
Ricky has returned to Rícky rickyyates.com 27 Jun 2013 | 09:02 pm
Ricky at Rícky v Orlických horách © Ricky Yates I am writing this, sitting in the bar/dining room/lounge of Hotel Konšel, located in the small settlement that bears my name, Rícky v Orlických horách....