I like to say that I am a “traveling scribbler” who likes to lecture for people who like to listen. I guess that’s why I make my living mainly as a teacher. I studied media studies at the Faculty of Humanities at Charles University in Prague and have written two books on the Middle East and one on Ukraine. I collaborate with several magazines and travel portals and I give lectures at festivals and various venues around the Czech Republic.
I always prefer my travels tohave some kind of broader impact. In 2021, for example, I took part in the Chernobyl on Wheels expedition, accompanying Honza Dušek, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, to Ukraine. I then wrote a book about the trip in support of St. Joseph’s Home in Žireč. I spent a year studying Israeli-Palestinian relations directly in Jerusalem and then published a book, Everybody’s Lying Here. In the fall of 2023, my third book, Three and a Half Arab. Lands, appeared on the shelves of bookstores.
My motto could very well be, “I’ll go anywhere as long as it’s going forward.” (Which David Livingstone once said). I made my first trip hitchhiking while still in high school and travel has been a part of my life ever since. I have visited many countries on the old continent, worked in Alaska, lived in Estonia, traveled to Guatemala, Mexico, Mauritania, New Zealand, Georgia, and other countries around the world. However, I like to direct my steps to the countries of the wider Middle East, to Israel, Palestine, Iran or Morocco.
I have a passion for the Middle East and North Africa, but I love to wander anywhere where there is a chance to experience an adventure or discover something new. I’m looking forward to finding that extra something that comes with my travels with Czech Adventure clients – for example, when climbing or wandering in the mountains or deserted and unspoiled places of the Czech Republic. Even here at home, there is much more to be found than the average tourist would expect.
