Road trips, mountain walks and holidays

Visiting Prague will provide you with huge positive experiences. Prague is the most visited touristic site of the Czech Republic. We have been there several times and never were bored. Visiting Prague and Czech Republic Czech Republic, also called Czechia, is a country in the Central Europe, although, due to its 20th century history it is classified here rather as belonging to Eastern Europe. Czechia has borders with Slovakia, Austria, Germany and Poland and its land territory is 77 thousand square kilometres (almost 30 thousand square miles). This is a very similar size to their neighbouring country Austria (slightly smaller) and central American country Panama (Czechia is slightly bigger). In Czechia live more than 1ten million people; majority of them are Czechs. Prague is the largest city in the Czech Republic and the 13th biggest city in the European Union; total number of the people living there is around 1.3 million (over 2.5 million in the metropolitan area). Getting there By c...

At the very end of April, we went for a quick trip to the Czech Republic. Perhaps, the most famous destination of the Czech Republic is its capital Prague, however Nord-Eastern part of the country, the region of Bohemia, is very exciting and attractive because of the mountains and local traditions. The whole Bohemian region covers about two-thirds of the Czech Republic. We had plans to visit a factory producing glass and crystal according to the old traditions, a local brewery (Czech beer has been always tasty and of high quality), spend some time hiking in the mountains near Adrspach and to find something else interesting in the area. Camping near Trutnov Before arrival, we found on the Internet and booked a camping Dolce Vita near the town of Trutnov (address: Dolce Vita, Oblanov 37, 54101 Trutnov, Czech Republic). Camping offers apartments in cottages located near a lake. Camping is located about two kilometres away from the main road, however, it is easy to find it. The cottage its...

Czech glassworks Visiting Czech glassworks and zoo were parts of our trip to Bohemia, Czech Republic. Our first destination before arrival at the camping Dolce Vita was the small ski resort village, Harrachov. We visited the Novosad & Son factory located there (address: Harrachov 95, 512 46 Harrachov, Czech Republic) – the second oldest glassworks in the Czech Republic, founded in 1712. Since the foundation factory is active and now also offers guided tours for visitors to find out how glass and crystal are produced and processed. It is possible to see glass furnaces, glass blowing, crystal polishing and other processes. They produce traditional hand-made free-blown, cut and hand-painted glass. After this educational and attractive tour, you can have lunch or dinner as well as taste local beer in Pivovar Novosad restaurant located just beside Glassworks. The restaurant offers both traditional Czech and international cuisine with a wide selection of beer specialities. Altogether, we...