Blogs from Czech Republic, Europe

Am letzten Samstag fuhren meine Mutter und ich vom Raum Nürnberg nach Karlsbad. Dort checkten wir ein und tranken erst einmal im Hotelcafé einen Kaffee. Danach starteten wir unseren Spaziergang durch die Stadt. Es gab mehrere Kolonaden und es wurden auch die bekannten Schnabeltassen verkauft. Ich erwarb auch Karlsbader Obladen. Das Wetter war sehr schön und es gab viele Spaziergänger. Die Stadt ist sehr sehenswert mit vielen historischen Gebäuden. In der Unterkunft wieder angekommen besuchten wir den Spa-Bereich mit Pool und Sauna. Abends aßen wir dann noch im Hotelrestaurant und saßen in der Bar.... read more

Well here I am in the airport in Prague waiting for the flight to JFK . It has been a wonderful 3 days here after a quite miserable bus ride from Budapest. It is a 700k journey which should take 6-7 hours that ended up being 11 hours . Traffic , two accidens and construction all slowed us down . I did not envy the bus driver . Needless to say we were miserable when we finally arrived . Fortunatly Vedran , our guide worked extra hard , definately more than required to make our time in Prague informative and enjoyable . We started our first morning with the panoramic bus tour and then stopped at the Castle . Theresa our local guide was excellent . She explained who peoples were , the eas in which ... read more

We arrived early morning on the 7th, and Elly's friend Zori came to pick us up and take us to our Home Exchange apartment. Our hosts, Franta and Milena, who live above the apartment they offer, were there to meet us and offered us breakfast. After we got settled in and had something to eat, we walked into town. The apartment is in a great location at the top of the hill, just a short distance (maybe a 15 min walk) from the castle. We continued down to cross over Charles Bridge. There was way more congestion with tourists here- maybe because it's smaller than Budapest. Some areas were packed with people, mostly tour groups following around behind a guide. We weaved our way through them and checked out a few other sites, like the Astronomical ... read more

A much calmer start today. Yesterday, the first I knew of Ash being awake downstairs (long story) was him coming up to tell me he had heard strange noises in the night and again in the morning and he was sure he could hear tweeting. When he went back downstairs, almost immediately I got a picture message of a bird in the glass fronted log burner. No idea how it hour in but we definitely needed to get it out. Ash opened the door downstairs then set it free from it's firey confines. Sadly the sparrow didn't want to leave and instead flew upstairs. It chose not to go out of either velux and so as a final last ditch attempt not to have to live with a bird for a night, we opened the full ... read more

Dag 12: 25 juli Vanochtend hadden we een wekker gezet om 6u30. Met kleine oogjes stonden we op en maakten ons snel klaar. Terwijl ik lunchpakketten klaarmaakte en fruitjes sneed, maakte Rick de kinderen klaar. Onze zakken hadden we gisterenavond al klaar gezet om geen tijd te verliezen. Op de planning vandaag: een wandeling tussen rotsformaties van Adrspach. We hadden een ticket geboekt in het tijdslot van 8 tot 9. Om kwart voor 8 vertrokken we met de auto en was het nog 3 kwartier rijden. Waze stuurde ons langs Polen en net op het moment dat hij ons een enkelrichtingstraat wil insturen (langs de verkeerde kant), heeft Rick geen netwerk. We moeten dus blijven rijden zonder een idee te hebben naar waar. Na 10 minuten was het in orde, maar wij waren onze marge kwijt. ... read more