Czech-ing out the wildlife and the meteorite remnants

I’M in Czechia, the new and less cumbersome English name for the Czech Republic, writing this in a caravan in the shade of a Scots pine on my son’s half acre of recreation land in the ‘moldavite belt’ of Lower Bohemia, north of the Sumava National Park and the Austrian border.

By Damien Enright

The vast 133m x 137m ceramic-tiled square of the large, medieval town of Ceske Budejovice is surrounded by Gothic and Baroque buildings with a tall fountain at its centre. Picture: iStock