Bellevue Hotel Harrachov

... so to pick up tickets, then make our way to the Katowice train station. What is with us and being late for trains? After a lot of running and dropping things from our backpacks, we eventually made it well before the train. <br><br>We switched trains at Wroclaw station. It was the first time i'd been to a Maccas where nobody spoke english. I felt very vulnerable, but thankfully Anita was fluent in Polish. After a day long train ride, and a touch of ...

Jelenia Góra ('deer mountain') is about couple of hours south from Wroclaw (trains or buses). It is close to the Karkonosze mountain range running along the Polish-Czech border. Only 10-15 km of the town there are few ski resorts such as Karpacz, Szklarska Poreba. <br> Nice, colorful Market Square, Cyprian Kamil Norwid Theatre, Saint Cross Church, the Old Town are just few places worth of seeing. <br ...

... people fought and protected there territory and now its all open.<br><br>Our last day in Czech was a drive towards the Krkonose mountains, we wanted to maybe catch a chair lift and walk some of the peaks in the area but the hot weather had finally turned into massive thunderstorms. That seemed to sum up our outdoor plans since we have been on the road, so we stocked up with Czech beer one last time and took the wet route into Poland, now there was no turning back.

al the former eastern bloc countries make for good travel,, but the one that i return to is the czech republic,, mainly to the north [north bohemia],liberec,harrochov,cesky raj, but a trip or two to moravia is also worth taking,,. during the communist times it was an eye opener, now also as the people wish for the return of those times,they knew where their bread was coming from, and the upgrades fron old skoda to super fast motorcars,, ah they stilll are crazy on the roads

... takze sme vybrali nase jesenne vertovky, ktore s nami precestovali pol sveta za posledny tyzden a mohli sme objavovat mesto pred nami. Liberec ma krasny architekturu z cias ked to bolo druhe najvyznamnejsie mesto v Cechach. Jeho odevnicky a tkacsky priemysel je preslaveny v celom byvalom Ceskoslovensku.

... moja kolezanka, "szorstk&#261; przyjazn". Czas pokaze, czy bedziemy zdolni utrzymac nasza relacje. ENGLISH: From one hand I am very happy, from the other I kind of feel like a stone in my soul. Typical syndrome for me when it comes to an end of a journey. Today we should get back home... In Prague we got to the Cerny Most metro station and from there we took a Student Agency coach to Liberec. There we found ...

... we were rewarded with terrific views on both sides, particularly down into a valley on the Czech side near the mountain resort town of Pec Pod Snezku. By the time we reached the summit it was quite cold and the clouds had gathered so we couldn't see a thing. However, as with many Polish mountains there was a restaurant there which gave us a chance to sit down and have a bite to eat in relatively warm surroundings. Luckily enough, within 10 minutes the clouds had parted, revealing the ...

... no one home I presume. Tomorrow we are going to visit the town as its apparently a great example of Czech centres so we will see. 10/10/07 Day 72 Rob - washing day today, but the German woman wont relinquish control of the dryer so Jenn is fuming, staring out of the window and scowling). (JENN- in my defence we are totally out of clothes, Rob has no knickers (day 2 for today's garments) and is down to his last shirt so its make or break time. Rob is ...

... brisk, enlivening hikes up to Jested Tower, which is a 94 metre-tall tower used to transmit television signal built on the top of Jested Mountain overlooking Liberec. In the winter the area is used for skiing and as we gazed about from the top you could distinguish the skiing slopes. It was superb standing at high elevation again viewing the panorama! I have missed my mountain hikes overlooking the earth from above!

... second day, which was about 6.30 in the morning. I don't think I ever get up that early, let alone intentionally so! Still, it was an incredible morning - bright blue skies, not too cold, and after a couple of hours of walking I caught the most amazing sight as the sun appeared over the peak of Snezka when I was halfway there myself. It's moments like that that really make me appreciate the fact I don't have the same old, same old 9-5! By 9.30, I was standing atop the highest peak in the ...