Dvorak Hotel Karlovy Vary

we finally arrive, after twisting jules arm relentlessly, but too late for the bus, cannot wait for two more hours, so we jump in a taxi only to find we have booked ourselves into the gulag, no i mean it. we are staying in prisoner cell block F. we think of crying, but dont want to show fear to the locals.<br><br>we do manage to find a ...

... other complaints.<br><br>We enjoyed our stop even though it wasn&#8217;t what we were expecting. We have a cute little china cup for our Christmas tree decoration.<br><br>We are close to the German border so we use all our Krouns for diesel and leave Czech Republic. It most certainly is a beautiful country along the west side. We passed fields and fields of poppyflower heads. It must have been beautiful when they were all in bloom!

... 5.30am. Not having had much sleep on the 11 hour flight it was a bit of a struggle to function like a normal human! But Munich was fantastic, a great combination of old and modern...everyone gets around on their bikes around the city which is pretty cool. Jarrad has spent a fair bit of time in Munich so was great to be there with someone who knew all the places to go. Felt obliged to induldge as the locals do so we went to a great gourmet market and had beer ...

... then enjoyed a lunch of duck,dumplings and sweet and sour cabbage. I swear Greece and Czech Republic have the best food in the world. I am going to miss it. We will return tomorrow to Amsterdam to connect with our flight home. We are hoping to make the Anne Frank museum if the lines are not too long.

... goods everywhere along with cheap Vietnamese electronics etc. The fun was walking and looking but we did get a few treasures also. At the end we had a nice cold yummy Czech beer while the vendors packed up. The stuff they don't feel like packing uo is left behind and it's a free for all so you just rummage thru and take what you want-if you can beat the Gypsies to it! We actually got some of the best stuff this way! Teta Kvyeta took us to the Moser glass ...

... cool aunt). She lives in an apartment not far from the main promanade in K.V. Karlovy Vary is world renowned for its hot springs and health spas and that is the centre of it's tourist draw. It is also the town that the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival is held that draws all the A-list celebs each year. Many of the restaurants attest to that fact by displaying photos of their famous visitors. K.V. is also famous for ...

... we are now. We've been staying with a friend of mine from work in Doha. She lives in a little town close to the border with Germany so we had a day of castles and canoeing yesterday and now it's almost time to head to Prague again before we travel to Croatia for a bit of island hopping and fun. Hope you like the pics. It's awesome being on the road again. Enjoy

... called Brody. <br>The Czech Republic changes every year I visit. In 1990, I remember standing in line with my mother at a tiny shop that sold whatever it happened to have (a battery, a box of tissues, ten potatoes) because we heard they had bananas. After an hour and by the time we got up to the counter, the bananas were, of course, gone. Now we go grocery shopping by car to our choice of supermarkets, from Tesco to Aldi to Kaufland to ...

... car to the vantage point over the town. The tower at the top of the lookout offers spectacular views, once we managed to start breathing again (we clearly hadn't sampled enough of the magic water). We also ate at Cafe Diana while we were up there and had a brilliant meal (I had venison, yes, I know, like eating Bambi, Andrew had salmon and this goulash soup served in a bread bowl...sooo good ...

... After remaining in the water the rose becomes hard and it looks as if it is made of iron.<br>And get one of those small pots they sell in the souvenir shops and try taste the water!<br>The pots are designed in such way that it is as if you drink out of a straw.<br><br>I would definitely like to visit this place again and probably spend ...