Hotel Garni Hradec Kralove

After feeling a little tired from the New Years festivities we headed out early for Budapest. On the way to Hungary, on Adam's request I must note, we specificallly drove to the site of a famous church known ''The Bone Church'' or Sedlec’s Church. This edifice was reconstructed and decorated around the time of the great plague (...

I got a little excited when we were planning this trip – driving for about 1.5hours from Prague and we are on the German border! From Adelaide I can get to Goolwa, or Mannum, in that time – not really the same… I think I was the only one excited though - it's all normal for everyone else.

We went to see Pravčická ...

Saturday 7th June I will cheat from my guide for the information. Today on the bus again, for a tour to Terezin Concentration Camp, this place was built as fortress in the 18th century. Built in 1780 and takes up 398 hectares. It was named in honour of the empress Maria Theresa. In times of war it was made to house an army of 60,000 men and 6,50...

Having said goodbuy to our two friends at breakfast, we were ready to take off for Kutna Hora. We chose to go there by train, as apparently the Sedlec Ossuary which we wanted to see was very close to the train station. We went by train but this time, the sunny day and the short distance made it much more pleasant than our last train ride... Afte...

Today I took a series of trains into Central Czech Republic about 3 hour ride to visit Kutna Hora. I was told a quick slip of the tongue leads to a very dirty Czech phrase; maybe Czech isn't all that different from English? Somehow I managed to switch and identify the correct trains to take with only 4-7 minutes between each connection. I must a...

Just returned from a day trip to Kutna Hora, an little over a hour train ride out of Prague. This is a city that hundreds of years ago rivaled Prague as it was once rich from its silver mines. It is now another one of those little cities that everything is so close together. My plans were to see the "Bone Church", but there was so much more to ...

Well, for the first time this blog, we had a downtime day yesterday that really wasn't worth writing home about. Just train bookings and too much food. Actually, there was something of an uproar in Prague about a certain George Bush visiting for approximately 20 hours. Boy, didn't the city go into meltdown. Protests, tourist venues being shut (t...

Up at 8 for some food Id got from Tesco then a run to find a launderette as I was desperate for clean clothes. Went to tourist info as receptionist was no good and they found me a place straight away. Ran there but that was an industrial laundry and they only did a 2 day service. The lady told me about another one and this bloke kindly gave me a...

Our biggest adventures so far were the day we left Prague. First, there was getting the car out of the hotel courtyard parking area via the very narrow archway entrance. Our rental is an Opel Vectra wagon, which is a lot longer, and probably a bit wider than most European cars. It seemed to be no problem getting IN to the courtyard, but the angl...

Mariánské Lázně is the Czech's Republic second biggest spa town. It is a lovely town located in a valley surrounded by forests. Marianske Lazne has numerous 19th century buildings, large parks, well-marked paths to the nearby forests and lakes, and perhaps the best 18-hole golf course in the country. The city reached its prime in the 19th centur...