35mm

Why shooting at this focal length is so much better

My kit (and standard) lens for the Df is the special edition 50mm Nikkor. I loved that focal length on DX. No other lens gave me such great shots. But on the Df the 50mm isn't quite as brilliant. To be more precise — the image quality is wo...

20th Aug 2018

RaxAlp

A one-day trip to RaxAlp

Since we were already in Semmering and close to RaxAlp, we decided to spend a day going there. We bought the tickets (QR code) online — valid all the way to the cable car (the ticket also covers the bus). You can also buy the cable car ticket in advance. The ride tak...

19th Aug 2018

Semmering

Holiday in the Vienna Alps

Holiday by train! We boarded in Brno and less than 3 hours later we'd arrived. Semmering — a picturesque spa town best known to railway enthusiasts. The town sits on the hill above the station. From the centre you can see more hills, left and right. Everywhere you go...

19th Aug 2018

Lahev drinkit

How a neoprene sleeve keeps water cold even in the hottest weather.

Until recently I was using bottles from the Swiss company Sigg. They really do last forever. However mine were starting to peel on the inside and were getting hard to clean even with tablets — Brno's hard water probably do...

15th Jul 2018

Menorca

On a recommendation from Forbes magazine… we spent our holiday on Menorca

We landed late and after picking up our luggage we were greeted with an unpleasant surprise. The hotel had sold more rooms than it actually had and was offering us compensation — accommodation somewhere completely differen...

15th Jul 2018

Professionalism in Aviation

Tyre change, check-in, and waiting for luggage… that's Travel Service and Prague Airport for you!

Tyre change

When departing for Menorca we were supposed to board an aircraft that had just arrived from Bulgaria. It landed on time, about 45–60 minutes before our scheduled departure. But during...

15th Jul 2018

When You Don’t Want to But Have To

Sometimes there's simply no other way…

You love your job, you do it — hopefully — well. You find a kind of mission in it, as do most of your colleagues. You have a great team, you could almost call it a family. And yet you hand in your notice. Why?

After university I was lucky — I had choi...

26th Jun 2018

Prezentace projektu

Speaking at the Flowmon Friday conference — from the speaker's perspective

I was asked to present a project at the Flowmon Friday conference. It didn't surprise me — Flowmon is a subcontractor so it makes sense they'd want to show off what solution had been built. I presented with a colleagu...

25th May 2018

Housing Mafia (in Brno)

Or: how "easy" it is to find housing in Brno

Everyone's looking for a place to live — some want to rent, others want to buy. Small, large, houses, flats. There is supply, but... the demand is such that if you don't respond right after a listing goes up, you don't stand much of a chance. Thos...

4th Apr 2018

Liberec

three days in LBC

We decided to spend a weekend in Liberec. We wanted to visit IQLANDIA and Ještěd. Along the way we discovered an amazing restaurant (Le Bistro) and hotel (Pytloun Grand Hotel Imperial). What personally surprised me was how hilly the city is — a hill wherever you look. Wha...

26th Mar 2018