Czech Republic | National Day

Embassy Network | 22nd March 2017

The High Commissioner for Cyprus Mr Euripides Evriviades, Ambassador Sečka and the new Ambassador of Greece Mr Dimitris Caramitzos-Tziras

Original Pilsner Urquell

Mellow yellow – a classic Skoda,

Danish Ambassador Claus Grube, Head of the EU Commission Office in London Ms Jacqueline Minor and Slovene Ambassador Mr Tadej Rupel

The Belfiato Wind Quintet

Italian Ambassador Mr Pasquale Terracciano and his wife Karin (left) with the Ambassador of Estonia Mr Lauri Bambus and the Ambassador of Luxembourg Mr Patrick Engelberg

The Ambassador of Azerbaijan Mr Tahrir Taghizade and his wife Ulviyya (who were posted to Prague) give a congratulatory gift to Ambassador Sečka and his wife Sabrina

Ambassador Sečka with the new Ambassador of Portugal Mr Manuel Lobo Antunes

Ambassador Sečka and his wife Sabrina welcome the Director of Protocol at the Foreign Office Mr Julian Evans

Ambassador Sečka welcomes the Croatian Ambassador Dr Ivan Grdešić

Ambassador Libor Sečka and his wife Sabrina, Deputy Ambassador Jan Brunner with his wife Petra, military attaché Jiří Svatoš and his wife Monika

 

Czech classics

On a mellow autumn afternoon Czech Ambassador Libor Secka and his wife Sabrina toasted their first National Day in London with a garden party at his leafy Hampstead Residence.

The guest of honour, Police President of the Czech Republic Major General Tomáš Tuhý joined ambassadors, parliamentarians, prominent Czechs and war veterans to enjoy a smoky BBQ, lashings of goulash, paired with a Pilsner or a glass of Moravian wine from the Ambassador’s home town of Znojmo.

For classic connoisseurs, there was the Belfiato Wind Quintet who blew everyone away with a beautiful rendition of the national anthems and Dvorák’s Slavonic Dances, while a classic Skoda parked in the gardens got the vintage car aficionados’ motors running. In every sense it was a classic Czech celebration.

PHOTOS: PIERRE DE VILLIERS