PragueByKaty 100 Posts

Today I am going to celebrate. This post is my 100th one!

I started my blog more than one year ago, but I really started to blog in November last year. And now I have 100 posts and you are so nice that sometimes you read them, you take a look at the shots and you like my work. Big thanks to all of you. I really appreciate that I found brave followers, this post is shared with 629 of you and I am very happy for it.

To celebrate this moment I am opening my new blog: Fototoulky s Kateřinou, which is in Czech language, mainly about pictures from places I love.

My new blog: Fototoulky s Kateřinou

As the summer season is resembling, I know my blog activities will slow down a bit, as I won’t be much on internet and by the PC to be able to write that often. On the other hand I will try to make more pictures to share them with you when business slow down again :-). What is difficult for me is that I won’t be able to follow the brilliant blogs you write that often and I am afraid that I will miss your posts, but that’s the life.

It’s time to thank to bloggers who nominated me for nice awards.

Cheryl with here great Precarious blog and  How To Cross The Ocean nominated me for Very Inspiring Blogger Award

Thank you both and I accept the nomination, the rules are following:

1. Display the Award Logo on your Blog
2. Link back to the person who nominated you.
3. State 7 things about yourself.
4. Nominate 15 bloggers for the award and link to them.
5. Notify those bloggers of the nomination and the award’s requirements.

Okay, seven things about me:

1. I really enjoy blogging
2. I love travelling and guding
3. I love Prague
4. I would love to meet you in Prague
5. I need more sun that it was here in Prague last 3 months (they say just 20 hours of sun this winter )
6. I love my family and our dogs
7. I love meeting people

Check out my nominations below. They inspire me and I hope they inspire you as well!

Suzanne et Pierre à Paris
A Yorkshire Lass in Ireland
Life: A Scot in Norway
The Hechter Chronicles
Beyond Prague
my world of melancholly
TalesAlongTheWay
abc Konsulting
My DogaBlog
A Guy And  A Gal
Hello World
Pug Life
Honey B’s and Birch Trees
bluebrightly
Pedro Holderbaum

During my blogging I also particiated in gorgeous Junsjazz online magazin, I know everyone knows Junsjazz, just in case you are new here, his blogs are perfect!!

Junsjazz online magazin
Images
Art

The next award I was nominated for is the Sisterhood of the World Bloggers from Travel Oops, check this brilliant and funny blog here.

The rules for accepting the award are as follows:

▪   Provide a link and thanks to the bloggers who nominated you.
▪   Answer 10 questions.
▪   Nominate 10 blogs that you find a joy to read.
▪   Provide links to the blogs and inform the recipients they have been nominated.
▪   Include the award logo within your post.

10 Questions to answer:

1. Your favourite color?  —  only one here? green, blue, pink and some others 🙂
2. Your favourite animal?  —  dogs, cats, gorillas
3. Your favourite drink?  — green tea
4. Facebook or Twitter?  — Facebook more
5. Your favourite pattern?  – small flowers
6. Do you prefer getting or giving presents?  – Giving is like getting to me
7. Your favourite number?  – 2
8. Favourite day of the week?  – When I am with my family
9. Favourite flower? – Poppies
10. What is your passion? – Travel, photography, design, meeting people

10 Sisterhood Nominations:
nanacathydotcom
Darragh’s Destinations
dadirridreaming
the central station
My DogaBlog
World’s heritage travel
Winding Alleys
LUND Sweden
wanderingquilter
Eva Zwemmer Tauerová

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Let me post some balancing history of my blog here.

My blog was born in September 2011 with post about which way to go down from Prague castle. Before my blog was born I planned to have a www page about Prague, about my guiding services, but I was not able to start it, as I didn’t know how. Then I participated in Agile conference in Prague, I was there as a help and guide for speakers. After the tour one speaker and his friend they founded a wordpress and twitter accounts for me, so here I am. Therefore, I want to thank Chris Matts and JB for helping me to find this beautiful community and for their kick. I hope you are also lucky to read my posts and enjoy my shots. Big thanks belong also to my husband, who is checking my English. If you find a mistake, it’s because I posted without his help :-).

Pankrác, the morning, when my blog was born

Excerpt from my WordPress Annual report:

600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 5,100 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 9 years to get that many views.

Click here to see the complete report.

View to Prague, the untraditional one

I also received some award nominations, which was a big surprise for me and I really appreciate it a lot. First one was “One Lovely Blog” Award, the nomination I got from Xavi.

The next nominations are:

Adventurous Blogger Award from Snigdha at her GETSETANDGO blog here.

To accept the award, I have to answer the following question:

1. In which country or region would you like your next adventure to be? I have many dreams and wishes, but for now I choose Dublin in Ireland.
2. Where would you recommend for an adventurous time? Definitelly Prague and its surroundings, like Český Krumlov, Olomouc, Kutná Hora and many others.
3. Most interesting culture: I am happy to find most of the cultures interesting, every single one has something to admire.
4. Favorite activity: Talking to people, drinking coffee and watching the life around.
5. Most dangerous risk taken: drinking given water in a small mountain village in Yemen
6. Favorite quotation: Creativity takes courage. (Henri Matisse)
7. Happiness is: all around me.

The next step is to nominate 12 bloggers who I think are worthy of this award and to inform them about their nominations. My nominations are as follows:

Wind Against Current
Sethsnap
ilovelongvacation
Back Road Journal
Picturing England
The Urge To Wander
The North Edge
Peripatetic Eric
My Thoughts like Balloons
A Traveller’s Song
Looking at tiny stars
myoutdoorexplorations

The nomination for Sisterhood of the World Bloggers Award! from Ana Ela at her HabitualRunaway blog here.

The rules for accepting the award are as follows:

• Provide a link and thanks to the bloggers who nominated you.
• Answer 10 questions.
• Nominate 10 blogs that you find a joy to read.
• Provide links to the blogs and inform the recipients they have been nominated.
• Include the award logo within your post.

10 Questions:

1. Your favourite colour?  Blue, pink, green.
2. Your favourite animal?  Gorillas, small dogs and many many others.
3. Your favourite drink?  Tea, coffee, fresh juice.
4. Facebook or Twitter?  Both, as I can’t compare what is uncomparable for me.
5. Your favourite pattern? Any colorful pattern.
6. Do you prefer getting or giving presents? Giving and getting gifts that I like.
7. Your favourite number? 28.
8. Favourite day of the week? All of them.
9. Favourite flower? Gladiola, rose, meadow flowers.
10. What is your passion? Travel, photography.

10 Sisterhood Nominations:

jeanne’s blog…a nola girl at heart

A Nature Mom

cindyknoke The leisurely Life!

Lorna’s Tearoom Delights

bob’s wife

Serendipity 13

Day One

Ingrid Dendievel’s Blog

Memories are made of this

Dear Bliary

Ileana Partenie

One more nomination came these days from Xavi here and I send him big thanks for this nomination for Liebster Blog. I like Xavi’s blog a lot and if you don’t know it, I encourage you to visit it.

I’m glad and proud to accept the award.

This award has the following rules:

1) Post 11 random things about myself;
2) Answer 11 questions from the person(s) who nominated me;
3) Post 11 new questions to those bloggers I nominate;
4) Nominate 11 bloggers (and let them know I’ve done so).

Random things about myself (in no particular order):

I am very happily married.
I am a tour guide here in Prague and around.
I love travelling.
I love making picture.
I love reading books.
I love spending time with my family.
I love our dogs.
I love looking at things as I see them for the first time.
I love to share what I know with people.
I love Prague and Czech Republic.
I love looking out of the window when travelling.

My replies:

1. If you could pick any holiday destination, where would you go and why? Above I wrote I would love to go to Dublin, my next destination is Marrocco, beacuse I would love to see how it changed from my last visit
2. Are you an early bird or a night owl? Early bird
3. Favourite thing to spend your time on? Being with friend in cafe, giving tours in Prague, work with photos on PC
4. If you won a ton of cash in the lottery, what would be your first purchase? One more camera lens
5. What are your favourite books? The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman and other his books, Karel Čapek‘s books, A Widow for One Year by John Irving
6. And your favourite movie? Stand By Me and lots of Czech movies like Pelíšky, Účastníci zájezdu, Občanský průkaz, fairy tale Tři oříšky pro Popelku
7. What language would you like to learn? German and Spanish
8. How would your friends describe you in 4 words? Smart, shining, friendly, reliable (words of my husband, thank you, honey)
9. Sea or mountains? Sea
10. What is the craziest thing you have ever seen or done? ?
11. What do you love about blogging? That someone enjoys my posts

The 11 questions for the nominees (I borrowed a few from Xavi):

1. If you could pick any holiday destination, where would you go and why?
2. When do you plan to come to Prague? 🙂
3. What is favorite destination / place that you have visited and why?
4. Favourite thing to spend your time on?
5. What are your favourite books?
6. And your favourite movie?
7. Which place close to your home you would recommend us to visit?
8. City or country?
9. Sea or mountains?
10. What is the craziest thing you have ever seen or done?
11. What do you love about blogging?

And finally, the 11 nominees (in no particular order):

Junsjazz Images & Inspiration
strassenfotojournal
The Worlds Is a Book…
Photograph: To draw in light.
Etol Thoughts
postcards from Budapest
The Phoblography
BUDAPEST – Hungary
Sea Play Photography
benpriestphotography
frida klenell

BIG THANKS to you all who are interested in my blog, who like it, comment it and subscribe it.

Happy New Year and Happy Blogging!

“One Lovely Blog” Award

First of all, I wanna really thanks to Xavi, from Xavigeis for nominate me to this award.

I’m glad and proud you think with me and it’s an honour for me accept it.

As it is, there are some rules that come with the award.

Please see below:

Rules comes with the acceptance of the award :

1. Link back to the person who nominated you

2. State 7 things about yourself :

3. Nominate 15 other bloggers for this award and link to them.

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Something about me:

I love travelling, I love making photos and then photo books from them, I love sharing knowledge with people, I love talking to people, I love making small designs so therefore I collect and design my own Pathtags (just for myslef at the timebeing), and as you maybe have noticed, I love Prague and showing it to other people :-).

My 15 nominates to this award (Congrats to all):

What an Amazing World

The Unwitting Traveller

a renaissance man

Plus Ultra

Accross the Bored

East of Málaga

strassenfotojournal

poppytump@number4

Life in Kawagoe

Konceptofon’s blog

Going Dutch

Taste of Japan

El Fotógrafo

thombradley

postcards from Budapest