Lillian This may be of help. Earlier I gave a link to a site of beautiful, old maps in color. The site is in Czech but I have been able to maneuver around it. You can continue clicking on the map to get in closer to the city of Prague. Each map shows a bar indicating distances. To the left of the map is another bar that allows for changes in magnification by clicking on the blue arrow and moving it left or right to zoom in or out. I zoomed in to find the city of Bukovany and then zoomed out to see it's relationship to Prague. I also did some searching to learn something of the geography of the Czech Republic. It's area is 78,866 sq. km.; the entire country is slightly smaller than the state of South Carolina. I know there was joking going on that everyone seemed to have come from near Prague. It is more than possible. As best as I could determine the city/town of Bukovany is about 25 km. or about 13 miles from Prague. Bukovany appears to be south/south west of Prague. Hint: I found Bukovany - then when I zoomed out to see it's relationship to Prague I had to use a location called Tynec to estimate. Bukovany was too small a town to show up in the large scale map. Hope this helps -- and doesn't confuse anyone too much. The map site I used is: http://mapy.quick.cz/ Susan (learning all the time -- and willing to learn more about reading maps)