Around Town

Here are some photos from the lovely city of Prague in September. It’s rainier and colder than this time last year! So these photos were captured between showers. Today’s follow-up note: With regard to the smart watch cable, I did eventually receive a text message notifying me that the cable I had ordered was now […]

Cold War Bunker

Once per month, the municipal district of Prague 2 (our favorite neighborhood) opens an underground shelter built in the late 1950s and early 1960s for civil protection. It could house up to 1,300 people for 72 hours in case of aerial bombardment, and it includes toilets, showers, a first aid room, a power generator, multiple […]

Heydrich Assassination

The most senior Nazi official assassinated during World War II was Reinhard Heydrich, killed in Prague by Czechoslovak resistance operatives under orders from the government in exile in London. Heydrich was particularly nasty, even for a Nazi, and he had been in charge of the Nazi-occupied Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. His assassination led to […]

Start Here

Thanks for joining us over here at Major Meander! (no salutes necessary) If you’re arriving from our previous blog Mezera Rok that we updated during our gap year, I note that this new blog is operated by me (Scott) alone, and it is intended to provide you with updates from the road as I travel […]