Czeching out Prague: Steiners travel to Europe
Steiners visit son for look at life in Europe
Being a global traveler is all right for Rex Steiner, but home is where Beryl Steiner likes to be.
Nevertheless, she and her husband, Eugene, hopped in an airplane last month and headed for the Czech Republic to visit Rex, who's teaching English in the country's capital city of Prague.
The couple spent about a week in the Czech Republic, including Easter weekend. They left Hillsboro April 14, flew to New Jersey to pick up another son, Roy, and then continued on to Prague.
Rex Steiner is the couple's youngest son, and he's been teaching English in Prauge since August of 2002.
For Eugene, being in the former Czechoslovakia was a visit to the land of his ancestors. On Good Friday, the famiy visited the town of Pilzen, which the Marion County town of Pilsen was named for. Walking through a cemetary there and seeing all the Vinduskas and Steiners on the headstones was like being back in Kansas, he said.
On Easter Sunday the couple visited the town of Tabor. That day was also their 48th anniversary.
Outside the cities, the Hillsboro residents took note of Czech farmland. The western side of the country looked a lot like farmland surrounding Salina, Eugene said. But the farmers use much smaller equipment — for example, 12-inch drills instead of 20-inch drills. Some of their main crops include barley and beans, and they plant both spring and winter wheat.
