- Well, what? Where do we go to the weekend?- May be to Leipzig? - No, better to Berlin. So, at Friday evening it was decided to go to Berlin next morning. The way was coming remote, it was necessary to rise 3 hours earlier than usually. We had a quick breakfast and gathered. 4 hours of roads, and we were on the spot. It had been decided to park the car at a shopping centre parking in the centre on the Potsdam Square. Not wasting time we bought a city map in a book shop, had dinner in a cafe "A hungry wolf" and went into the street. So, it was the Potsdam Square. The square was very modern, with high glass office buildings and shopping centres. We could not believe that recently it had been divided by the Berlin Wall and when the Wall has been taken down in 1989, there was a huge dusty waste ground on this place. I saw a strip on an asphalt where earlier the Wall was, with the tablet... → More 21 Views
My friend with two children was going to mountains Krkonoshe in the east of Czechia for a week. They invited us to visit them during the weekend. We have drived out on Saturday morning. We went by car along the highway without adventures. The adventures began on the country roads. The fact was that couple days before our trip a heavy gale had passed across Czechia. Perhaps, it was stronger in the east mountains than in Prague. At first we met a degraded bridge. All cars passed it along a very narrow extreme strip, therefore there were long rows of cars in both directions. Than we met a lot of trees broken by the wind or pulled up by the roots. And some of them - real giants - were laid near the road roots upwards with a piece of road asphalt! We arrived to Jasenske Lazne at noon. It was a small town with some hotels, cafes and skiing schools. In general Jasenske Lazne was the skiing... → More + 1 Comment / 28 Views
