Imperial Spa Hotel And Health Club Karlovy Vary

... pan and cook our first dinner this week, so not all bad.<br><br>in karlovy vary we buy the teeniest tiniest cup and try some water from every fountain. some taste like blood and we wonder if we have reached dracula country early. oh well, at least we will probably live a few extra years according to the, ah hem, medical advice.<br>

... br>We leave and go to see the colonnades, these are fancy walkways with pillars that have little fountains where the thermal water comes out. People are walking along with fancy china cups. The handles are really spouts to drink the water from. They go to the water taps, fill their cups and stroll along drinking the water. The water is warm and at some stops hot water. <br><br>We bought a very tiny cup and tried the water. I ...

... sausages for lunch. Was half cut - half a litre of beer with jetlagg...interesting combination.<br><br>Flew from Prague on the dodgiest little plane, Jarrad was pulling sticky tape off the cabin and announcing outloud that we might not make it alive. Hmmmmm they also made the mistake of asking him to complete the customer survey...<br><br>Went out on the bikes yesterday to explore town. Amazing - bus loads of tourists arrive here daily. Photos don't do it justice.

... 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.

... We also were treated to a dinner at the same castle with Mirek's cousin and girlfriend-I of course had the suckling pig......not! But Mirek did have castle goulash with bacon dumplings and says it was yummy! One of our goals was to get to a hockey game and we were fortunate enough to take one on last night, the top league in Czech is the 'Extra Liga" which many former NHL'ers play in including Roman Chechmanek who was playing in net for the team Karlovy Vary ...

... to find out that it is no longer in business. We also went to see the famous astrological clock that has a skeleton pulling the bell chimes on the hour (we'll post the video when we return). Celina also had some fun at another sekach (thrift store) and had fried cheese on a bun from a street vendor (and she didn't get sick). Speaking of food, one of our visits in Prague was to my aunt Liba's, who lived through communism as a ...

... No joke. Needed to get this long one out now so the others can follow soon enough after. After an interesting year and half in Doha, Qatar I thought it was time to hit the road again and see what else is around the corner. As it turns out once again there is heaps. I arrived in London and spent a week seeing mates and going out to Wimbledon for a look ...

... to walk a very long distance to find ourselves at the train station, board on the train which was basic to say the least..... and arrive in Prague OVER 3 HOURS LATER grrrrrr You may want to issue return tickets when visiting Karlovy Vary... Before leaving, do try those big round wafers. You may also buy special cups and try the thermal water, but it may get messy as they advise it may be tough on your stomach... Even so, the place is crawling with WC about every hundred meters...

... outside patio like house. I went over to investigate and I saw them filling their mugs with water from a draining snake spigot. I had a water bottle but I did not know if I could walk over and fill it up so I went up to the spigot and drank some water from my hands. It was weird tasting for water; it reminded me of highly carbonated well water. I ended up buying the coolest mug I could find and then continued walking ...

... or two nights there.<br><br>It is not a big trip actually, if I am not mistaken it is about 2 hours from Prague, however the whole trips is interesting because you drive throuh huge thick forests and hills with beautiful colorful hills on either side of the road.<br><br>A place that mustn't be missed!<br>We left with the best impressions.