Saturday, April 30, 2011

Kounov Megalithic Stones 2

The 20 or so alignments of stones run in a North South direction and consist of hundreds of stones of differing sizes. All imported from somewhere far away. Didn't find the detail. Then there are two anchor stones: Gibbon and Pegas which delineate the arc between the setting of the sun at both the winter's and summer's solstice. This seems to point to a more ceremonial pagan site. And very defendable as two sides are steep cliffs and the stones are situated on a small plain on the top of the ridge.

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Kounov Megalithic Stone Alignments

Just got back from searching for these megalithic stones about 60 Km outside of Prague. I wasn't expecting much but was shocked by what we found. They cover a huge area. About 20 parallel lines of rocks running 100s of meters long. Many rocks are missing because of logging etc but now it is all protected although you have unlimited access to all the stones. What a find. I will post more

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Friday, March 18, 2011

JB and Georgia

JB with Georgia back in the day
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Analogue

London calling
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Russian Wildfires

Last summer during the Russian wildfire season I got asked to speak on Czech TV about what its like to work on a forest wildfire. I told them about the ones I had been on in BC. They especially liked about the old law in BC where the authorites are allowed to force any adult males to go firefight in case of a shortage of manpower; and if you refuse then you go to jail. At least it was like that back in mid 80s. I told them that broken glass causes lots of fires and that Russia is apparently full of broken glass. Go figure!

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Anger Street

The watchmaker we visited in a small town south of Munich lived on Anger Street No. 1
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Home Sweet Home

Walking on an old disused track along the river in Liben walked past a little hole and just noticed a man's foot sticking out.
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St. Christopher and the horses

The patron saint of travelers being guarded by the beasts of travel
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Žižkov Sky

The view off my balcony in Zizkov
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Long Lost Czech Roadhouse Pub

I tried to buy this place about 20 years ago but they said it was sold. Look, still empty
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Russian Loza to find Nazi Gold

I went out with a Czech colleague to use Russian deep ground penetrating radar called Loza to look for underground anomolies which may be tunnels where the treasure is hidden. No luck yet. Lots of drama though. Many strange characters involved as you can imagine
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Bukowski's Staff

Greetings. I been away for a long time but I'm back. Here's a pic of Janka and Viktor in the new Buk's T-shirts
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Monday, July 19, 2010

Party at Walden

True, Eia and Tim at Walden late night in July
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Sunday, July 18, 2010

Thirsty Dogs

In Hungary with my first ever copy of my first ever book. Written in English, translated into Czech, printed in Slovakia and picked up in Hungary. Got stopped on the way down driving a Czech car, with a British passport, a Canadian driver's license and speaking Slovak. Small world!
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Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Sadakat

Just before the wedding
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Pozor Tram

Not only do you have to look the other way, but also for Trams!
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Bar Kar

The bar car to Bratislava
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The plums

A storm drain ful of plums. How about that eh?
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Inside Julius Meinel looking up at Mustek
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Saturday, May 1, 2010

The sisters

The two beautiful sisters, Emanuela and Marta with bartender Viktor pulling up the rear
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Ok, glad to be back after not posting for about 6 months. Last night was the Prague freaks of the 90s reunion at Bukowski's and here are two of them: Indy and Morgan
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Thursday, July 30, 2009

Hard Road

Listen; whatever you do take it easy because remember, it's a lot colder in Norway than it is on your ears.
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