Clifton

www.molvania.com

"A land untouched by modern dentistry"

PatrickLondon

Another Guardian reader...!

ben_haines_london

Whatever her stomatology, Moravia has had her moments. When General LaFayette, fresh from a aid to the revolting colonists, went home to help disturb Paris he fell into the hands of the Hapsburgs. Since he was a regicide they had to show their dissapproval, so they jailed him in the fort of Olomouc, where Mrs LaFayette went to live nearby and take him home cooking in jail. Charles Darwin said a lot, but the mechanisms were unknown: later in the century the Abbey Gregor Mendel worked out the rules of Darwinian inheritance in the gardens of his abbey in Brno, and there is a small museum there where you can see his possessions, including his rose-clippers. Smetana lived in Brno, and in his museum you can not just see his possessions but also ask staff to play you a disc or two while you sit.

Far too few other Europeans know Moravia, two hours by good train from Vienna.

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viennese

Movania - Molvania - Moravia?

PatrickLondon

That's the logic of the posts above, but
what sparked this off is the website mentioned, and this article in Saturday's Guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/st...177580,00.html

Aren't these Australians wags..?

crazymina

My Australian friend gave me the guidebook. The icon key had me in tears...

Clifton

Actually, I hadn't read it in the Guardian. In this case, I'd been leafing through the book in a bookstore in Melbourne a couple of months ago and found it hilarious. I'd wished I'd bought it then, before we headed back to the US, then was reminded about it this morning on a post at the Thorn Tree.

Very creative.

laverendrye

"Molvania" will be available in NOrth America in September. Here's a recent review:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servl...query=molvania

Sounds like it's required reading for Fodorites.

For a taste, here's the Molvania website

http://www.molvania.com/

laverendrye

I should add that the Molvania forum, while somewhat less broadly based than Fodors is a paragon of internet forums.

http://www.molvania.com/molvania/forum/

Neil_Oz

Readers interested in exploring previous work by the intrepid travellers who launched Jetlag Travel should view their film "The Castle". It's a harrowing look at the plight of a working-class family faced with the destruction of their treasured home, which abuts the main runway of Melbourne's international airport. A review of this insightful social commentary can be found in Roger Ebert's movie archives under www.suntimes.com.

anotherjudy

I found the Molvania guide book at Borders Books yesterday. It is a scream!!
Judy