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Published: June 29th 2007
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back the charle's bridge
it seems like a tradition already to make this picture lol as you might compare it with 2 previous lol Dear friends,
This is probably a last trip to Europe before i go back to Thailand in August. I'll try to tell you in brief as i know lotz of you've already heard my impression about this country. I think this time i really got to know the czech cities in detail and came back home to Russia with thousands of thoughtful ideas about my future. I and my friend spend lot of time visiting cities in remote area. CR has a picturesque landscape, plenty of cosy and inexpensive restaurants, local beer breweries, castles with english-style garden, lake and little hills. That is probably why people return to CR again and again. There were also 2 important cities which i'd never been before: Karlovy Vary and Ceska Budejovice. Karlovy Vary attract thousands of tourists. The city is famous in its mineral springs and lots of patients are recommended to come here and take advantages by using spa treatments from this city. That's why you can imagine millions of grannies and daddies strolling around this lovely and peaceful city of Karovy vary. Czech people say that the city has long been occupied with russians. this is well founded as you
Karlstein Castle
also one of the symbol of Czech Republic. Resident of Charles the forth. Excusion takes place here everyday with guides. Inside no picture is allowed but the you'll get an imaginary of how medieval kings once lived can notice once you're in the city: all people around you speak russian, lot of signs for restaurants and services are in russian, so as excursions, road indicators and many many things. This city also surrounded with trees and lakes. The city reminded me about Strasbourg and Kolmar in France. There's also a ritual you have to go through, while you're walking in Karlovy Vary: get an empty glass and walk around the city, stoping once in awhile to fill mineral water in and drink it little by little. Every spring offers mineral water in its special temperature and has its own name so there's probably no chance to get lost in this city lol. The second city i made a visit to is Ceska Budejovice. City gives a world famous beer of Budvar(or budwizer). City itsels is located in Southern Bohemia and has one of the biggest squares in Czech Republic. The purpose of visit of this city is a little bit different ( you might wonder why i didnt have beer here) As i had been trying to get idea of how expat life is Czech republic, i went to the russian agency who provides helps for russians
Thai massage in Karlovy vary
so you see, we're almost everywhere lol to immigrate to Czech Republic. The owner of this company explained a process of immigration and told me about lives of his clients after relocating in South Bohemia. It was quite interesting though. Firstly you suppose to have an immovable property. (and you can find, for example, house in south bohemia for 25000 dollars) then the company will try to register your OWN company or s.r.o with your name as a founder and put in the address of the house as a company's office. Then the process of relocation starts: you provide them neccesary documents, and they try to make everything done for you in 3 months. Lots of clients from st.petersburg sold their apartments here and move to Czech republic. The others load some money from a bank to pay this amount of money. After they purchase a future 'company's office' they spend money repairing that house and after getting resident and work permit they sell this house to another people and look for another possibilities to rent an apartment in the center of Prague or big cities. What a play!! but some really worked out and the company does offer firm guarantee of getting officially legal resident permit.
Orthodox church in Karlovy vary
some ppl might feel home a bit, others dont And after spending hours and hours talking with them, i realized how difficult european immigration policy is. Ok i'd better stop telling you all this bullshit as i think that this is an useless in4 for you lol. I forgot to mention that i also had a chance to meet vice-director of Oriental institute of Charles University in Prague. We made an appointment thru Dr. Vacek, a kind professor who supports me in term of studying and doing my research in Czech Republic. the vice- director seemed to be extremely friendly. She was interested by my idea to run thai language course for students of african and vietnamese studies but the only problem is that they're lack of funds and the only way out is to discharge some of their professors from the office and take that part of salary for employing me lol so she'll be extremely happy if i can work as a volunteer teaching my language in university. I didnt accept her friendly offer as i still need money for living lol. But i might also be interested to work there as a teacher and teach there in weekend. As you might notice that i have degree
center of Karlovy vary
all shops along the kanal in linguistic so teaching thai to another slavonic native speaker is really sounds attractive for me. Indeed I might love to do it as a hobby. The main job i'm interested in is the job offered by company of ZDB group with its factory in small village called Kamenna. This factory has it long history and is one of the only two factories in Europe that produce welt nets, wires and metal clothes. After i'd been contacting the owner of this company with the hope to come and get a deeper understanding of company's products, i decided to make an appointment for interview. The owner seemed to be very friendly and showed me the production part which is absolutely impressive: this section occupies large part of factory's territory and produce wires and nets from different materials in specific shape according to orders. The factory has a very nice surrounding: green hills around, forest, clear sky. And office for sale teams is right in territory of factory. The idea of working in one of those bangkok skyscrapers sounds no more pleasant comparing with what this factory offers. Also one of advantage of this job is a chance to travel a lot
mineral spring of Karlovy vary
Martin with one one of mineral springs at 70'c from west to east as the company has long been cooperating with its partners in different countries from Ireland to China.... well, i just hope that i get a positive answer from this company lol and that things go with the flow!!. Well i think i'm out of my point and the point of this website now.... i should change my topic lol... There're 3 castles i visited this time and in one of them i spent a night in. Yes i slept in one of those castles since only one of them is announced themself to be a pension. The other 2 are more for sight-seeing lol. You can see and feel yourself an owner of castles as lot of them belong to a private family and some of them are for sale or rent. Only problems you might have after purchasing it is that you'll probably have to spend a lot of money restoring and install heating system inside the castle. Besides, cleaning is a big problem as you might imagine lol.. one of the most distinguished church is in town not so far from Chotebor, Pilgrimage church of St. John of nepomuk: the monastry is listed in
center of Karlovy vary
near the russian quater lol one of UNESCO heritages. If you would look from top view you might see the shape of this monastry area is like a closed and proctected fortress by long wall in the V-shaped bend. and this probably makes this place outstanding.
i also met friends that i hadnt meet since winter and thanks for nice evening and beers at Peagas, Brno!, and all Martin's friends!! and of couse, Martin for guiding me around, making my trip more interesting
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wow it's nice
Hey Ed ....Photos so nice naja ....