Salvator Karlovy Vary Hotel

... 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.

... 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!

... sausages for lunch. Was half cut - half a litre of beer with jetlagg...interesting combination.

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...

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.

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... why I love going back so often. It was the most amount of food we have eaten so far and the parties weren't too far behind either. Denmark to Berlin where we stayed a few days and did the touristy sights. Neither of us realised what a cool city it was before we arrived. It is a place to go for sure!! From Berlin we took a train to the Czech Repbulic ...

As we, well me and my boyfriend actually, would stay in this country for 5 days and that's way too much time just for Prague, we decided to look around for a bit. We thought Karlovy Vary and Kutna Hora deserved a visit. So, after discussing with our friends, we all headed for Karlovy Vary together and left Kutna Hora for another day. Karlovy Vary is a little over 2 hours by bus (low cost - great service) but looking back, I'm not sure it was all worth it. You see, it's one of ...

... to the top there were quite a few people just chilling up some were even pretty old - they seemed to be in good shape I didn't think anything of it. Immediately I was impressed with their ability to climb the mountain. In fact I thought to myself that I hope I can be as active as them when I am their age. I was really astonished. Then as I began to walk more, I started to notice a lot of people - a lot more old people ...

... 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 ...