Hi Friends and Family, Today, we're going to go for long walks and take photos. We decided to take the laptop with us so that we could later go to the hotel rather than going back to the pension. I had thought about walking to the train station and finding out just where it was as everybody was quite elusive! There was talk that it was 5 kms away. 5kms. Pah! After all, we had walked further than 5kms before. We even once walked 12 kms!! It was on the coastline in Poland. We had taken off our shoes and it [View Full Entry]

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Today is our last skiing day. Oh no! “The Small Young Gentleman” had been a little naughty this morning by screaming in the house ( although there were other guests and a family living there ), walking on the stairway with his ski-boots on and subsequently, fell and ended up sliding down the stairs with only the hallway table to break his fall. Luckily, the plants didn't fall on him or anything else for that matter and even luckier, he wasn't hurt. His punishment. No children's TV and no playing on the laptop this evening. And so the glum and pouting [View Full Entry]

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Today, we didn't have any appointments. We were finished with lessons and so we could take our time 'cos carrying two sets of skies and poles in ski boots can be very exhausting! We decided to take the 10:00 ski-bus and also use the time to take a few more photos of the scenery and also the other skiers. Roky is a place that now relies heavily on tourism and as such most of the houses were either pensions like our own, ( private homes rented out ), apartment hotels or chalets and most things were written in Czech and German [View Full Entry]

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The afternoon before, I had had a chat with Peter as to payment and what would be needed in terms of lessons. The end result was an extra private lesson for “TSYG” and 4,700kc ( €188 ) from me for absolutely everything i.e. the cost of 2 half day private lessons for 3 people and 1 half day lesson for 2 people, the ski sets for 5 days and the helmets and goggles thrown in. Fabulous isn't it! A couple of months ago, a German governor caused a skiing accident in Austria in which himself and a lady had serious injuries. [View Full Entry]

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Breakfast at 08:00. Downstairs at 09:15. Skis collected. Boots on. Out the door at 09:30. Local bus at 09:37. Bit of a walk. Bit of a trek. At our meeting point with George a little after 10:00. George and Veronika were both there and so the day began. Today carving. And more carving with poles and skiing around them. A bit like learning to drive. Ahem. You don't wanna know! Thirty minutes later, it was time to go the ski lift. Aha! Both kids fell at the starting point but were back on their feet pretty quickly with George behind them [View Full Entry]

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Roky is a haunt for Czechs and East Germans so most people spoke both languages. We spoke German too but for extra security. I wanted an English-speaker thus we were partnered with George, a young 20-something Czech. We were a very mini-group of three. Veronika ( a 6 year old Czech ), “The Small Young Gentleman” ( another 6 year old ) and me ( a complete adult ) and we were going to have private lessons on Horni Domky!!! Horni Domky spreads out over the southern slopes of Lysá hora at an elevation of 630 to 1,315 above-sea-level. By way [View Full Entry]

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I woke up at 5:00 and packed the last few bits. We planned to leave the house at 06:30 'cos I wanted to buy the Sunday papers! We managed to get out the door and 15 minutes later we were on our way. Bus M27, the underground train to the Zoo station and a change to the U2 to the IICC station. We were going by bus! Bus I tell ya!! To Rokytnice nad Jizerou in the Czech Republic!!! Roky is a favourite place of mine for seriously cheap skiing, most of the time guaranteed snow and under €1,00 per 0,5 [View Full Entry]

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Hi Friends and Family, Today was our last day and we had a few hours before taking the trannbacki home. To Berlin. Once again walking through the city. Seeing the old with the new. We had wanted to go to the opera but we didn't make it instead we took photos outside the building of Narodni Divaldo which is the Opera House. I have many favourite places and one of them is the old French restaurant wher we had glasses of wine before we bought yummy baguette slices with all sorts of creamy toppings. Just the thing I like and bottles [View Full Entry]

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Hi Friends and Family, Today was the day of getting to grips with the Jewish Quarter. Its one of the most interesting sections of the city and we very much wanted to do it justice. First of all we left our apartment hotel and then walked to the Old Town which led directly to the Jewish Quarter and what a Quarter! But first, the Staromeska Clock and we could actually see it work its magic without the hordes of gawping tourists! We also managed to go to to the Czech Xmas without having to slide through the crowd and could actually [View Full Entry]

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Good Morning Friends and Friends! Today is the beginning of a glorious day! After a buffet continental breakfast of bread rolls, ham, cheese, fried egg, bacon, tea / coffee and juice we proceeded to check out the less popular side roads. The Czech Republic as an emerging European country has done and did enormously well. Public transport is well sorted. The underground system has just three lines and is so easy to manoeuvre and the trams are so spaced-aged and modern that they put a lot of North European countries to shame! I’m told that the use of cobbles ensures that [View Full Entry]

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