Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Located our home for the trip - Carolina Antique Apartment - on the third floor in a town house at


Between the 15th and 22nd of January kixx online 2014 I visited Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. By this trip I had a bit of visiting places in central and eastern Europe. And yet this was the first time I was in the city who may for the most popular city break or backpacking kixx online in this piece of the world. This was also the first time I arranged a secret trip abroad, where the fellow travelers know where we travel to it until the last minute.
Birthday present to Andy, who came with me to Filniws in January 2013, was the catalyst kixx online that sparked the trip. When a bunch of us to celebrate it's kixx online 30 years old over dinner at the Villa Marina, Caernarfon I told him I wanted to buy him a plane ticket cheap. He was delighted. Very soon and on his advice, extended an invitation to others to join us for a holiday somewhere was not yet known to us. Confirmed Iwan, one of the crew of a trip Filniws, he was interested and that he ordered flight tickets to all three of us. He later ordered tickets to Owain, another crew tour Filniws and William, who came with me to Fosgo in 2012 and Copenhagen in November 2013.
None of the four co-traveler know where we were traveling we met at bar until Bewleys Hotel, Manchester airport on the first day of the tour. The only clues given in advance was that the resort in Europe and cold.
At around noon I met a bunch Bewleys hotel lounge bar, opposite Manchester airport terminal 1. Me and William stayed in the hotel the night before as I had booked a package including nights accommodation and parking for a week deal. Once we buy a round of goffis Irish, datgelais flight where we still felt it. Tour was not a secret anymore, but there was still a lot to look forward to.
We went to the terminal for brunch, then normal clearance procedures in recording bags and safety. Our Easyjet flight was not leaving until 17:30 the 1801 number so we spent the afternoon in a business lounge Aspire, by relaxation in the presence of the light bar and free food.
Our flight was only two hours. In our expected arrival hall Airport Vaclav Havel, Prague was a big man with a bald head, beard and black jacket holding a piece of paper with the name "Gb Edwards" on it. It looked like bouncers or hitman, this was our taxi driver. kixx online Thank Ianto - not his real name, but one coined by one of the crew - we achieved our accommodation without any fuss.
Located our home for the trip - Carolina Antique Apartment - on the third floor in a town house at 12 Karoliny Světlé, quiet side street in Old Town. It was a good choice for accommodation: plenty of room for everyone, a kitchen and dining kixx online room, washing machine and a convenient location to discover the city.
After unpacking and complete accommodation arrangements kixx online went on to search for food. By now it was about 22:30. We found a pub Švejk on Betlémské náměstí. The restaurant is part of a chain named after the good soldier Švejk, fictional character from the period of the First World War which was probably kixx online a personification of the Czech nation. I chose the Beef Goulash with potato dumplings and onions. With our meal there was plenty of bread and pretzels and beer dark. He later moved to sister restaurant-bar, U Vejvodů, where we had additional beer and wine to our immersion in the Bohemian atmosphere.
We started the first full day in the city of gold with a twist along Charles Bridge, Vltava river crossing to the west bank. Having crossed, we had breakfast in the Cukr kava Limonáda, pleasant and contemporary small cafe on one of the back streets of Mala Strana, an area that is home to a significant number of embassies.
A tradition has developed on my travels recent visit parliament house of the countries we visit. And this is exactly what we did next. Half day we went to the Chamber of Deputies, kixx online the Czech version kixx online of the House of Commons. There, we met our tour guide for the afternoon, Eva Dostálová, multilingual woman who used to work for the country's Foreign Ministry and was very knowledgeable of the chamber. We saw a short film about the country's parliamentary history of the Middle Ages to the contemporary period, before Eva takes us around the maze of mansions and buildings that housed kixx online the legislature.
It was the date of our visit is significant. Exactly 45 years ago on January 16, 1969, a Czech student Jan Palach 21 called immerse himself in fuel and set himself on fire. He died of his burns three days later. He did this in protest against the tyranny of the Soviet Union. kixx online It was a difficult time in the wake of the Red Army drove tanks into in August 1968 to end the 'Prague Spring', an attempt liberal elements of the local Communist Party to reform the economy and society wl

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