The Blue Beetroot Boleslawiec

The second day celebrations began at two clock. First we eating the soup again. There was also a lot of vodka and a lot of dance. Celebration ended at seven. We walked around the old town yet. Drank a few beers. Playing cards. And moved back to the hotel. Then again come the idea to make more a few beers. Aire and Veiko drank some more beers.

Wedding day. The religious wedding at Church. The bride and groom were happy. They threw coins and rice as the bride and groom left the church. There was congratulations. We sat in a large bus. Bus not traveled so far - was broken. Finally, we left for ...

In Wroclav Slavek was at the airport, we drive by car to Polkowice. We left things in hotel rooms. Look for other guest in hotel (Galen, Rose and Tina). We found them at swimming pool. Aire and Veiko found eating place, and we did the first beers. Later, continued to party at the hotel. Tina joined with us. The real hit was "Mambo # 5"

Jelenia Góra ('deer mountain') is about couple of hours south from Wroclaw (trains or buses). It is close to the Karkonosze mountain range running along the Polish-Czech border. Only 10-15 km of the town there are few ski resorts such as Karpacz, Szklarska Poreba.
Nice, colorful Market Square, Cyprian Kamil Norwid Theatre, Saint Cross Church, the Old Town are just few places worth of seeing.
Jelenia Gora, Western Poland, Poland ulka

The day after crossing back into Poland, we stopped in Wollmierz. If the Eagle's were European, this would have been their Hotel California. Greeted by smiles and tea, unfortunately no pink champagne, we toured this defunct train station now offering daily departures in puppet theatre, oil painting, and welding junk. . After eating the special cake, we were offered to sleep in "Dracula's guest house". We checked out at 7 am despite the voices down the corridor.

... I was the only visitor so they sat me down to watch an introductory dvd. Walked round the museum with lots of artifacts and chillingly the gestapo photos of the 50 executed. Obviously they didn't speak English so I pointed outside and the lady got out a map directing me to tunnel Harry. I couldn't have map so had to photograph it and go off that. 1.5k walk but well worth it, still some remains of buildings and the route of the ...

Caught train to Zielona Gora and found a map outside station and amazingly found road I wanted, after dealing with a drunk who smelled heavily of meths or was that me. The hostel (1k from station) was in a tenament block but at least I got my own room. Made bed from 6 I had to choose from, and went for a walk. Found a BG, barmaid took the ...

We started in Stuttgart and had the plan to go to Dresden in 6 hours....but because of a traffic jam it took us 13 hours, really horrible. We slept at a friends place, the poor guy had to wait until 3 am for us....!! The next morning we started with a small Dresden tour, went through "Elbsandsteingebirge", a really beautiful landscape. Then we entered Czech Republic and went north, we passed Decin. The landscape was so amazing, I really loved the north of Czech Republic and ...

... walls were painted a lighter shade). Into the large market hall where I remember buying my first Smurf figurines. Just let anyone try to deny the cultural value of Smurfs - we'll draw the line in the sand right here. =) A short two hours of bus time brought me to Jelenia Gora - my most familiar stop of this whole trip. I come here once or twice a year, so I'm now in my usual little internet cafe ...

... hall was completely different than anything we've seen before, and there were lots of interesting and unique buildings. Off the square there are lots of historic churches, but a lot of the other buildings are communist-style apartment blocks. I think it just surprised us after seeing cities like Krakow and Gdansk, where the old town is filled with historic buildings. It gives the town a certain atmosphere, and the presence of modern buildings can wreck ...