It happened that in one day we were lucky to attend 2 festivals. Prague Food Festival 2007 at Kampa park (www.praguefoodfestival.com) and discovered a JoyRide extreme sports and music festival at Císařská louka island (www.JoyRide.cz)

• Festival photo report here
  

Interesting event on Saturday. Went to Hvezda Sports Bar to meet with some friends and watch Italy-France football game. Afterall friends did not show up, but I have met another ones I knew. Together we maid a downtown night clubs minitour, hit - U Sudu, Zlaty Casy, Aloha, ... (?) and finally Popo Cafe Petl. Nice and unexpected.

Been to LetniLetna cirqus performance - Cirque ici: Secret . Totally outstanding event. The show like nothing else. Would totally recommend.

Actually there are many graffity covering walls and houses in Prague. Especially in the suburbs. Check this out.

London. Reunion of friends who met during Helsinki Summer School 2002 (selected photos are here). Nikolay (RU, living London), Jeroen (NL, living Amsterdam) and myself Ivan (UA, living Prague). We have meet in London over this 5 calendar days (23 - 27 August, 2007), where Nikolay lives in a nice light and couzy 2 bedroom appartment with bright kitchen.

We have experienced an exponential growth of sunshine (12 seconds on Thu, 12 minutes on Fri and 12 hours on Sat onwards!), participated in a spot-at-least-one-Ferrari-per-day competition, attend the first ["children's"] day of Notting Hill carnival with 1.4 million fellow party
lovers and explored Cambridge.

• See photo report here from London and from Cambridge.
  
• Also see the photos from Nikolay's gallery.
  

I have got a nice links from my Austrian friend Mario, (Mario Krenn , we have met during our AIESEC traineeships in Ostrava, Czech Republic), who is having a great life in US, New Orleans now. I believe this is how he spends his quality time there... by attending music c0ncerts:

• Jazz
• The Police (Sting)
  

It is time to start a new chapter in life after all... hopefully new love... either love is eternal it can't be old or new... just feel it... get rid of the pain... I believe love overcomes pain... like in Harry Potter 5... the strongest positive emotions overcome the ones that hurt the most...Should work... I hope. I believe. I love. That is what my sister Lisa told me today in the night when I have called her and we listened to the storm of the Black Sea. Vse bude dobre - sings to me Vokarchuk from Okean Elsy...and I know that is the way it would be.

Here are some recent photos.

July 19 - October 21, 2007

Museum Kampa - the Jan and Meda Mládek Foundation has prepared in cooperation with the Andy Warhol museum in Pittsburgh an exhibition with the title "Disaster Relics", which presents prints by Warhol dealing with the theme of catastrophes. Many of these works belong to a series which was created at the beginning of the nineteen sixties; they reflect Warhol's fascination with death as well as his obsession with "fifteen minutes of fame". Some of these works document the life of the famous, for example a portrait of Jackie Kennedy shortly before and after the assassination of Kennedy. The rest, chronicling the lives of ordinary people, for example prints inspired by racial unrest in Alabama or by car and airplane accidents.

Been there.

Prague walk with roommate Sophie. Photos.

Recent photo reports:

• Day-of-moving-out-from-Hadouvka-to-Chodov-office
• Back-to-Prague-week-end 1st week-end after California
• Laid back Friday with friends Prague-Fri-July-16th
• Prague-walk-with-roommate-Sophie

I was happy to receive a reply to my blog post about San Francisco from my friend Ayumu since studying in Western Kentucky University, USA in 2000/01. He mentioned that he has recently been to San Francisco with hie wonderful wife Megmi in March and that they really enjoyed the time, seeing very beautiful city. They really loved it. Now Ayumi enjoying his work in Japan. He is in charge of selling YAMAHA outboard engines in South East Asian Countries, such as Indonesia and Malaysia.

That must be fun, sailor!!! I guess when the time comes... I would have to order from you a nice engine for a white yacht.

On the other photo - Fumio (also our JA friend we spent time together at WKU), Ayumu, Megmi.

My schoolmate of Lyceum "Intellect" (Kyiv, at school N 21) Andrew Semenov has sent me a link to his photos from the Pripyat Festival (near Chernobyl).

July 7th to 19th I have been spending in San Francisco Bay area. Was here on the business trip working and meeting people at the headquarters of my company. It was a lot of meetings I had to go through, had to meet about 20 different people. Also few colleagues took care of me well and took me for a few nice off work exploration events. Among others:

• Exploring streets of San Francisco and San Francisco museum of modern arts for exhibit of sculptures works by Matisse
  
• A dog walk in recreation park
• Filoli - residence, trees and rose garden
  
• Santana Row cool district and a French restaurant
• The Crucible's Fire Arts Festival
  
• Russian Disco event at Avalon club
• Pacific Ocean by Santa Cruz, wharf area with nice Italian restaurant
• Solitude walk and dinner in the restricted recreation area of Pacific Ocean bay area
  

Also I had a chance to visit US friend Dina and her dad in UC Davis.

Here is photo report.

Today I got a few photos from my comrade Denis (and Valik, 1st on the left), who were probably been to Odessa beaches recently.

On June together with my colleague visiting from US we have visited an amazing performances of William Shakespeare at the Prague Castle. We have seen the "Storm" (Boure)

http://praha.muzejninoc.cz/ this year attracted thousands of people. I have invited about 8 people, but only 1 showed up. So we spend the museum night with my colleague Tomas. Photos are here.

We did the following program:

18:30 Meeting by the exit from the M Vysehrad

19:00-19:30
The Vyšehrad Casemates and the Subterranean Hall "Gorlice" now home to
6 original statues from Charles Bridge. 20 min down to catacombs. Need
sweater and lighter.
http://praha.muzejninoc.cz/clanek.php?id=2&objekt=23

19:30-20:00 going by metro to Staromestska.

20:00-20:30
Umelecko Prumyslovy Museum back garden, Jazz Concert
http://muzejninoc-cz-praha.cattani.netservis.cz/clanek.php?id=5&ida=90

20:45-21:30
Rudolfinium, Antonín Dvořák, Symphony No 9 in E minor "From the New World"
http://muzejninoc-cz-praha.cattani.netservis.cz/clanek.php?id=5&ida=92

21:45-22:15
Charles Bridge Museum, Midevel carnaval and Photos exhibit
http://praha.muzejninoc.cz/clanek.php?id=2&l=en&ida=&inst=&objekt=47&linka=&stanice=

22:30 - 23:30
Jewish museum - Guided tour - History of the Jews in Bohemia and
Moravia I. – From the First Settlements to the Beginning of
Emancipation.
Meeting point: in exposition
http://praha.muzejninoc.cz/clanek.php?id=2&inst=6

00:00– 00.30
Jazz Before Midnight at Czech Museum of Music
http://muzejninoc-cz-praha.cattani.netservis.cz/clanek.php?id=5&ida=101

Encore une fois - Equador!
DJ Sash in Prague. I wanted to hear his music but was not sure if going pary in the middle of the week is that of a good idea. But when I learnd that I can get in for 7USD I did not hesitated and joined the party at MischMasch .
Je regarde le disc jockey!!!

On Saturday went on rafting trip by Vltava river from Vyssy Brod to Cesky Krumlov with friends Gerald and Nick and Elsa + 10 more French people. We did not get a change to speak much to French people and Elsa since we were going the fastest. I would recomend you try this sport one day. Cool feelings in your mind and body after 8 hours on the water. You may find all the info at: http://www.ingetour.cz/boat-rental-canoes-rafts/general/basic-information
We were afraid of our camers getting wet so NO Photoes for today.

This week I'm volunteering for the international theater festival Fringe (PragueFringe.cz) .
The concepts and events are unbelivably cool, as you may find out from some photos. So many happenings in one week!!! You can enjoy one great performance after another. My personal hit parade of the shows:

1. Velvet Scratch
2. The Friends of Jack Kairo
3. Stephen Frost Impro Allstars
4. A play on two chairs
5. Troubadour
6. Blow This Popsicle stand

The weekend of May 24-28 my Dutch friends Pieter (wich whom we have been rommates for 3 months in Ostrava during the AIESEC traineeship) and George (his friend) from Rotterdam has visited Prague and I hosted them. We aslo had a farewel party for Elsa on Friday (she will come back to France after a year of ERASMUS studies here in Prague). Photoes here.