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Salon Meridian

I just had a great experience in Salon Meridian in Brno.
They do facials and massages and speak English and German !!!

Tel. 773520852 Rudisova street 6, Brno, tram.Nr.4

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Follow our Tweets

Yes - BrnoExpats is now twittering. Follow us on http://twitter.com/BrnoExpats

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Other Great Brno Sites

There are a number of sites about Brno that are worthwhile checking out in my opinion. These are;

Brnopolis is mostly in Czech but it has an English language section and often covers interviews with ExPats in Brno. Occasionally, they also hold events in Brno. Nice site and well worth checking out.

Brno Now is a local blog that is the original source of news from Brno for everyone who prefers English to Czech. It is written by a local freelance journalist and contains good quality articles.

The Czech Daily Word is another news in English focused blog written by a journalist if you want a bit of a broader view.

Note - You can keep up with some of these sites in our "Czech News" Section via RSS feeds.

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Driving in Brno...

Driving in Brno is something that I don't have to do too much of given the fact I live close by the city center and the public transportation system is fantastic. I'm glad I don't have to drive too much though. It seems that almost every street out of town has long-term roadworks going on and traffic gets snarled up surprisingly quickly for a place the size of this city.

I guess that its all EU money being spent on improvements but I'd like to throttle the City planning department who appear to have taken the view that we might as well do everything at once.

What do you think?

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Having Fun On Husova

The roadworks on Husova apparently proved to be too much of an opportunity for a bunch of pranksters the other day.....

This is the result. Laughing out loud












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ExPats Get Together in May

We will have our usual get together on Thursday 28th MAY for a beer or three at Atrium from 7:30pm onwards. (Josefská 514/5, 602 00 Brno-město (1. patro)). Come join us and meet a few new friends.

In past months we have had as many as 35 people at these get togethers and most seem to have a good time. Its a great way to meet new friends!

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New Poll

We have just posted a new poll that you can find here. Please do give us your opinion as we are trying to determine the best night of the week to suit you all for our monthly get togethers......

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Brno ExPats Clothing???

Fancy a shirt or cap with our logo on to show you are an ExPat in Brno?

If so you can buy one at http://www.cafepress.com/brnoexpats

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The Modern Apartment Building

These days it seems new apartment blacks are springing up like spring daisies all across the center of Brno. I suppose it is good that this is happening as it brings and/or keeps people inside the city center but I am beginning to wonder if these new apartment blocks won't simply turn out to be tomorrow's slums. It seems to me they must all be designed by the same architect as they are all concrete with featureless facades and even featureless square rooms. In short, they are boring.

It would be nice to see more thought being put into apartment design. Little touches of innovation and interest as opposed to simple square boxes. I suppose it is cheaper to build square boxes but I wonder how livable these are?

Scanning property, as I am apt to do, I notice that renovations are often architecturally more pleasing possibly because they have to make best use of space and differentiate them from the new apartment blocks.

Does anyone agree?

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More Site Updates

This morning we upgraded quite a lot of forum functionality. The following were added;

1. Smileys. Yes, you can now use smileys in your posts if you so wish Smile

2. Private Messaging. You can now send a user a private message. To do this either go to 'messages' on the main menu or click on the private message icon on a forum post. Your messages will be available in the 'messages' area accessible from the main menu.

3. Quotes - this gives you the ability to lift someone else's post, whittle it down to whatever you wish to reply to and add your thoughts. The quoted part will appear as a shaded boxed area in your post and is attributed to the user who made that post. Simply use the 'quote' button on a forum post to use this feature.

4.Facebook style status - you can now also post facebook style statuses that will show up on the left hand side of each page. Go to your user account, edit and you will see where this status can be entered.

Hope this adds to your user experience and if anyone has any difficulties or suspects an issue with any of this do let me know.

Thanks and hopefully - see you tonight.

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