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If you are around Christmas in Prague and are looking for a church to go to, here is a little list of Christmas services in English. If you know of others or have further information to the services mentioned, please feel free to leave a comment

Anglican/ Episcoplian:

St Clement’s Church, Prague 1, Klimentská 5 (www.anglican.cz)

24.12.2008 11:30pm (midnight mess, approx. 1h)

25.12.2008 11am (Family Eucharist, approx. 1h)

Regular Sunday services: each Sunday at 11am (approx. 1h and parallel Sunday School for children if desired), after the service there is normally coffee hour

Non-denominational:

International Church of Prague, Peroutkova 57, Prague 5 (www.internationalchurchofprague.cz)

24.12.2008 Festive worship service at 4:30pm with music and dance.

Regular Sunday Morning Services at 10:30 a.m. (Sunday School available).

Baptist:

Šárka Valley Community Church (SVCC), IBTS (International Baptist Theological Seminary) Chapel, Praha 6 (http://www.svcc.cz/)

24.12.2008 Christmas Eve service 4.00pm

25.12.2008 Christmas Day Celebration (time to be confirmed, + 420 2 9639 2300)

Regular Sunday services from 10.45am until 12.00am (Sunday School available).

Roman Catholic:

St Thomas Church, Prague 1, Josefská 8, (Mala Strana) (http://www.augustiniani.cz)

24.12.2008 They seem to have an English Mass at 6:30pm and a bilingual Midnight Mass (at 0:00) but please confirm by contacting them beforehand http://www.augustiniani.cz/en/contact.html as there is no up-to-date information on the web site.

Wishing you all a happy Christmas and don’t forget the “Reason for the Season”, SY

One reason I was not blogging much lately was due to a hacking cough, the second one this winter! It is difficult to try to get your brains together and write something entertaining and informative when every few minutes you are attacked by a cough. Funny enough this time hubby didn’t get my cough (be thankful for small mercies!) so I only have to worry about me.

But actually it is not only me, half Prague seems to be sneezing and coughing. So I did a bit research into the air quality here in Prague. Actually there is not a lot of up-to-date information on the net, the two most useful sources I found are Air Quality in Europe and a statement on the Official Website of the Czech Republic .

It seems that the situation is far better then it was, lets say, twenty years ago but that Prague is still one of the cities with the worst air quality in Europe.

Next discovery: It gets even worse with inversion (Wikipedia explains that better then I could ) trapping smog/ polluted air close to the ground so that it can’t get dispersed easily. And guess what? Winter is prime time for inversion in my part of the world, so it seems I need to acclimatize a bit more to living here

But air quality is not the only thing that makes –and keeps me- coughing. Also the overheated buildings here don’t help at all. Imagine what changing several times a day between environments of +20-25 C and 0- -5C means for your respiratory system! But in this is enough mileage to make a blog post in its own right, so if you want to know why Czech houses are chronically overheated, subscribe to my RSS Feed (the orangy thingy on the top right) to not miss my next post

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