Hotel Hvezda Cheb

... around the city and showed me more historical places to my family like where my grandparents meet, where she went to school, were they got the meat to eat and also the church she went to. This was really awesome except it was night and I couldn’t get any really good pictures but Wilfried says he will take some and send them to me. I hope he does.

Anyways, after touring we went back to Bayreuth were we ...

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.

we do manage to find a ...

We stop for the day in this small town. We look at hotels on the local information board and pick out a hotel. It is just around the corner. We go to the front door and it is locked, so I try a side door and ring the bell. A woman comes and says to go to the hotel door. We go back and she lets us in! She has a room ...

... other complaints.

We enjoyed our stop even though it wasn’t what we were expecting. We have a cute little china cup for our Christmas tree decoration.

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!

Sitting in the living room of the house that will be 'homebase' for the next few months. Weird to think that this time last week we were just pootling around Sydney doing our thing!

Trip via HongKong was great - 2 nights and two days of shopping overwhelm and yummy food. We managed to cram in quite a bit pulling a marathon 12 hour day seeing the sights. Jarrad had the benefit of my shopping expertise and made some good purchases!

Arrived in Munich on my ...

... 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 ...

... Boheminan Crystal and Czech porcelian as well as Moser Czech glass. Karlovy Vary is the town that I grew up in as a young boy (even though I always say I grew up in Penticton). I'm somewhat familiar with the area but it has been great having Teta Kvyeta as a tour guide. She is a dedicated history buff and also worked for her whole working life in a glass and porcelian store so she is also very familiar with the history of these ...

Camping am See Václav of die andere, Autocamping Baldi... in ieder geval bomvol Nederlanders, érg gezellig, sanitair stonk naar ijzerhoudend water, kortom geen succes. Plus dat de volgende ochtend ons gas niet meer werkte, lege tank dus, dachten we. Zoek zoek naar LPG, lukte uiteindelijk alleen hadden we niet de juiste nippel bij ons.... dus maar terug naar Dld, daar zouden we maandag vást wel een LPG station vinden waar ze wél de tank konden vullen.

... After remaining in the water the rose becomes hard and it looks as if it is made of iron.
And get one of those small pots they sell in the souvenir shops and try taste the water!
The pots are designed in such way that it is as if you drink out of a straw.

I would definitely like to visit this place again and probably spend ...