Berlin

TV Tower + Brandenburg Gate

Reichstag

Hauptbahnhof/Central Railway Station

Galerie Lafayette

Famous Cars 

Potsdamer Platz

Brandenburg Gate

English Learning - Audio Podcasts

Nowadays exist plenty of options how to learn foreign languages, especially English. If you have some basic knowledge of the language, it needs to push the level up. My favourite type of learning is listening audio podcasts - this is pretty efficient. You can listen them anywhere, in an office or during some free time activities.
Question is how to choose the right one. The most important is to choose some which fits to your level. Nowadays you can find many English podcasts on the internet but some of them are not understandable at all. It is caused either due to bad quality of a record or weird accent of a speaker. For those who prefer more British English than American, I can recommend Luke's English Podcasts. The guys speaks RP (BBC English), which is very understandable accent. These podcasts are suitable for intermediate and higher levels. This guy makes every single episode very entertaining, you can get to know a lot of interesting things (for example how to swear in English) in the episodes. For those who can have some problems with understanding, for some episodes are available even typescripts.

  


Important question is how to get this podcasts? It is pretty simple, just follow  this link where you can find all the episodes. Good thing is these podcasts are for free.


Or some people prefer more podcasts with American lectors, for those who like them better, follow the links below to check them out.


http://englishpod.com/eleyda
http://effortlessenglishclub.com/

Enjoy them all and don't forget to study hard!
  

Some Portion of Music - Balkan, Reggae, Electro Swing

Recently I went for some music session to one club near my flat. It was pretty enjoyable, check some of the tunes out too...


Ginger Swing by PapaDjango by Dj Papa Django



SwingThing by MALALATA

09-11/12 Budapest in December

Another weekend trip to Budapest, this time shortly before Christmas time. The main aim of this visit was to visit some Christmas markets and then to try thermal bath, which Budapest is very famous for. There were several markets around the city but probably the best one was in Vorosmarty Square (metro station - Vorosmarty Ter - yellow line).
I expected there to be plenty of stalls with souvenirs but the majority was stalls with some food. And I must confirm, the choice was pretty big, from some snacks to specialities and of course hot drinks like hot wine or punch. Check the pictures bellow to see some Hungarian cuisine. What I can really recommend is - sausages, mild or very spicy, depends on your preferences.

In the city you can find couple of thermal baths but what I can recommend is to go to Szechenyi bath, huge bath complex (one of the or maybe even the biggest in Europe), built in 1913 in Neo-baroque style, located in the City park (the best access is by metro - station Szechenyi Furdo - again yellow line).

The complex itself has 3 outdoor and 15 indoor pools. What can make somebody interested is that the components of thermal water include sulphate, calcium, magnesium, bicarbonate and a significant amount of fluoride acid and metaboric acid. Some of the components are pretty smelly but after couple of minutes in the bath you can easily get used to it and smell nothing.
And this is even great experience to have a bath outside in December. Don't worry about cold weather in winter time. Even if ambient temperature drops deeply bellow zero, water in the outdoor pools always has a pleasant temperature around 35 °C.

09/2011 Vacation - Istanbul | vol. 3

Again, I decided to visit my friends in this amazing never sleeping city. Weather here in Czech Republic was getting a bit colder, small portion of Turkish heatwave and culture was pretty worthy for me. Thanks to all participating for making my holidays wonderful.

Code Mode 2011

The last weekend in July took place in Prague Festival of design stuff called Code Mode. Unfortunately when I was there, weather was not so nice that time so a lot of sellers due to that decided to end earlier. But some interesting things remained there. What made me interested the most were definitely city bikes. Soon I must buy some. Take a look on the pictures below.

Html tutorials - How to make links open in a new window

This post will be definitely useful for the visitors of my blog or bloggers who have the same problem with what the title of this post says. Thanks to one blogger I found the way I found the way how to fix the problem. So from now all the links in my posts will be open in a new window.

Most blog platforms let you use a button shortcut for adding a link in a post. You know the drill: you highlight the words you want to link, you click on the Link button, you paste in the URL. Easy-peasy.

But if you want the link to open in a new window, instead of having it take readers away from your page, you can click the "Edit HTML" tab and add a target tag to the link's code.

 

A link's HTML code looks like this (minus the spaces before and after the brackets):

< href="http://www.exampleURL.com">text text text< /a >

To make the link open in a new window, add target="new" between the URL's endquote and closing bracket. Like this:

< href="http://www.exampleURL.com" target="new">text text text< /a >

If you have a Typepad blog, you can install a widget that makes ALL links automatically open in new windows.