Energised by Autumn breezes, this period of learning new words (eg. Lollygag) and practicing them saw me on a forest bus over the hills to Jiretin pod Jedlovou.
En route was lunch at the Hotel Sonnennhof Slavia in Horni Podluzi which serves up great food as well as a story with spooky Nazi undertones that is not mentioned on the website, told to me instead by a cook in a steam-filled kitchen ...
During the 1930s when the Nazis' grip on Germany was tightening and popularity growing, troops of the Hitler Youth/Jugend movement (read: child army) were sent to places like Horni Podluzi for brainwashing in fresh air and a healthy active environment still popular today for skiing and hiking.
En route was lunch at the Hotel Sonnennhof Slavia in Horni Podluzi which serves up great food as well as a story with spooky Nazi undertones that is not mentioned on the website, told to me instead by a cook in a steam-filled kitchen ...
During the 1930s when the Nazis' grip on Germany was tightening and popularity growing, troops of the Hitler Youth/Jugend movement (read: child army) were sent to places like Horni Podluzi for brainwashing in fresh air and a healthy active environment still popular today for skiing and hiking.
Reaching Jiretin square on foot for cake and coffee in the bakery cafe, the trip ended with the forest bus swinging down to Rumburk where the Hotel Luzan's vast complex of Wellness entertainment - gym, pizza house, solarium, steak restaurant, communist supermarket now sadly closed, fish shop, stinking kebab outlet, coffee shop, massage parlour, casino, as well as Rumburk's very own answer to the Big Lebowski bowling alley.
The horses were occupied with the latest delivery of grass when I skirted their field, but whispers were coming from Praha's embassy district meaning yet another trip to Bubenec just up the street from Sparta Praha's stadium on the vast expanse of Letna plain where major demonstrations in 1989 brought down the tyrannical communist regime.