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Swimming pool season started in Brno
Swimming season is being started in many swimming pools of Brno these days. For example, the pool on Kraví hora visited about 300 people yesterday. In addition to 50m open swimming pool they have opened new playground, where you can play different ball games. They are open everyday from 9am to 7pm. Královopolská swimming pool will be opened next Saturday with their special event for children. On 28th of May Riviéra swimming pool will open their leisure park with "Caribbean night" where will perform Brazilian and Cuban dancers and singers.
First penny auction in Czech Republic
Earlier today, the first penny auction was announced open in Czech Republic.
For those who are not familiar with the term, a penny auction, is an auction where you can buy goods for cost much less than it really worth it. The trick is that the winner, pays only a small part of the cost of the product sold, but the rest is paid by other bidders as a fee.
Website: http://zlevneny.cz
Exceptional show of Yamato drums is starting in BRNO
Extraordinary experience awaits visitors of Janáčkovo Theater on Wednesday and Thursday.
The Japanese Yamato team are performing their new show, which will be held at six concerts in five Czech cities.
The first concert of Yamato will be held in Brno, then in Zlín, Ostrava, Prague and Pardubice.
Yamato drove Bohemia crazy last year and the year before, when they first came in the national premiere. Viewers rewarded the two hour long performance with grandiose standing applause.
Yamato was founded in 1993 by Masa Ogawa in Nare, which is considered a cradle of Japanese culture. Currently, their team of ten is settled in the village of Nara, playing their traditional Japanese drums Wadaiko, traveling for more than ten years all over the world. More than one thousand performances were given in Asia, Europe and America were given, which more than a million people watched since the beginning of their career.
Carnival masks will crowd out trams in the center on Thursday.
On Thursday 21th of May Masarykova street will be closed to trams between 19:30 and 22:30. There will be held final rehearsal for the Friday's Carnival which will be held in the city. Trams #4,5,6,12 and 13 will route through Rooseveltova street.
Catacombs under old town hall made public by fall, 2010
Brno's council will invest 90,000,000 CZK (aprox. 3.3M Euro) to open at least a part of the labyrinth under Brno.
Starting approximately in October 2010, a 700 meters long way of catacombs under the old town hall and vegetable market (zelny trh) will start accepting first visitors.
The under way will offer different types of facilities, such as theatres, historical museums, expositions and an alchemist workshop.
The first patient with a suspicion of swine flu was hospitalized in Brno
The first patient with a suspicion of swine flu was hospitalized in the medical faculty's hospital in Brno.
"The suspicion was announced to the regional sanitary station, but has not yet been proved. We have taken probes and sent them to the national laboratories. Whether the flu is confirmed or not will be known by the end of the week" Anna Nesvadbová, the hospital's spokesperson said.
This is the forth case registered in the Czech Republic. Two patients are in the infectious clinic Bulovka of the medical faculty in Prague and one in Pardubice.
Husova street will be ready soon
If you would look on the Husova street you might notice that it's repair is almost done. Workers covered several layers of asphalt, finished tram rails and almost finished sidewalks. However Šilingrova street is still being repaired.
The city hall wants to finish reconstruction of the Husova street as soon as possible. It must be done before the celebrations "Brno - the city in the middle of Europe". And all the rest should be completely finished in the August-September.
"Both streets should be finished before last days of August. From the 1st of September on the Husova Street will run first tram with passengers," said director of construction Josef Diviš.
Czech Roads have a new concurrent.
Czech Roads - the Czech railway company has a new concurrent in the business. Railway Authority has issued a license to operate on Czech railways to RegioJet, a part of the Student Agency.
Student Agency is a well known company from Brno, which operates the nationwide network of yellow buses which now seems to have ambitions to go on rails.
"Getting a license was the first necessary step. Sure it declares our interest in entering the rail transport market" said Jan Paroubek, the Chairman of the Board of RegioJet.
Private carriers have to operate on the less important lines, such as in border areas as Šumperk - Kouty nad Desnou in the Olomouc Region for example.
It looks like train passengers will finally get better rail services as the carriers are obviously starting to compete.
First urban action game in BRNO
After years of activation in Russia, Australia, USA, Poland, Germany, UK, France and other countries the well known active urban game ENCOUNTER is coming to Czech Republic.
Their first game will be held on May 23 in BRNO free of charge and is called "Point of Distruction".
More details: http://brno.en.cx/GameDetails.aspx?gid=9312