<p>Max Boyle was born in Huddersfield, England, and has grown into adult life feeling comfortable. With his attainment of middle age, that feeling is no longer a positive. He craves experience. Deciding not to continue in an uninspiring job in his hometown, he fantasises about leaving the country to teach English, and duly decamps to Tabor, South Bohemia, called there by memories of previous visits to the town and a lovely Czech girlfriend. Arriving a decade after Czechoslovakia's famed coup, the Velvet Revolution, he finds his trials as a novice teacher emerging from the cocoon of a mid-life crisis change his life forever. Written with wit and style, Touching Velvet is an entertaining journey to the heart of a life in transition and the expatriate experience.</p>

Touching Velvet: A Year in the Czech Republic

Boyle, Max

Travel

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

In 1999 Maxwell Boyle departed an office job in Huddersfield to take up a post as a teacher of English in Tabor, a South Bohemian town he already knew well. This volume records a year spent in the Czech Republic, a country brimming with charm and character yet still in transition a decade after its celebrated Velvet Revolution. "Encounters with grumpy landlords and white-socked shop girls, beer-fuelled evenings beneath the vaults of Tabor's Blues Bar ... all are evoked in a wry style." Michael Ivory, British Czech and Slovak Association.

Touching Velvet

Adlibbed Ltd

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