Kurhaus Palace Frantiskovy Lazne

... breakfast! Or ever really! Before all the hunters could come out and admire their colleagues work we decided to head out. I still don’t understand how people can be so proud of luring an animal into an open space with food and then shooting it in the head. I mean if you wrestled it to the floor with your bare hands then good for you….if the dear had lasers for eyes then good for you….but seriously…you just shot an unknowing dear in ...

... 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 ...

... pan and cook our first dinner this week, so not all bad.

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.

... the whole hotel is empty! We get room 16 on the 3rd floor. We go up to see it and when we open the door it smells of smoke, so we go back down to ask for a non-smoking room. We are now on the 1st floor in a non-smoking room. It is huge. All the furniture looks hand-crafted.

We notice the man has several large ...

... an instant head ache so didn’t have any more. Len seemed to enjoy it.

The town is very beautiful, lots of fancy painted buildings, beautiful flowers, and flower boxes. Lots and lots of restaurants for all those tourists walking around with their cups drinking the water.

There are also an incredible number of spas treating digestive system diseases, metabolism defects, diseases of the locomotive organs and ...

... 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.

... where we marvelled at the gorgeous mouth-blown and hand made creations and finally realized the beauty and value of the glasses we had received from Mirek's parents. Despite the high cost, we treated ourselves to a set of glasses like the one's they had gotten us years before and will use and enjoy them even more now. Mirek's extremely generous and sweet Aunt, Uncle and cousin also bought us some so we are looking forward to drinking in style from now on ...

... craftworks. We spent a day walking through the town center the highlight of which is drinking from the 11 natural hot springs (each said to have it's own medicinal properties, but all of which taste gross just at different temperatures.). The center piece to the hot springs is the Hlavni Vridlo(main spring) which is more like a gyser that shoots some 9 meters into the air. K.V. also is the home of the spa wafer or Oplatky ...

... regalarme uno de esos, de otro poeta de esa época. A muchos les aburrirá lo que estoy contando pero estoy muy impactado por lo que era la vida en esa época. Lo que la gente arriesgaba por un poco de cultura, la valentía que tenian que tener. Ella estuvo obligada a ser profesora de primaria y me contaba lo valiente que le parecían algunos que se suicidaron cuando sabían que no podían mas. Y lo triste que era para ella, que le tocó todo eso ...