Today we celebrated the perfect weather by getting out of Dodge and taking the train to Kutná Hora, a smaller town known for its founding by the Sedlec Abbey, its silver mining heritage, and its Jesuit College. Students visited the goth paradise of the Sedlec…

Our history class got historical in the grandest sense possible, by considering how while fascism and communism, Hitler and Stalin, and the turmoil of The Czech Republic/Czechoslovakia/The Austria-Hungary Empire shook the entire world–the universe persisted. Plus, we looked at Venus.

Have you ever eaten for four hours straight? We have, with our favorite diet-butcher, Jan, of the Taste of Prague food tour.

On Tuesday, friend-to-Putney and brilliant Slavic Studies scholar Meghan Forbes led our group back in time via a walking tour of sites key to Prague’s 20th century avant-garde tradition. We began by reading Czech poet Jaroslav Seifert’s poem “Electric Lyre,” then rode the tram into the…

by Ann B. On our first full day in the city of Prague, our history group visited the Museum of Communism. The Museum was incredibly informative and sparked conversation among group members. We discussed how growing up in the United States, we were all taught…

What a first day! We saw the city from some wild perspectives, beginning with a pizza orientation at the bottom of the Žižkov Television Tower, and then taking an elevator to the top. The view is spectacular from up here. We wandered from pod to pod,…

We’ve received word from the leaders that the group has arrived in Prague.