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Wednesday, 31 December 2008

Last Day

If sex is not intersting in bed, it surely becomes amazing in a show case. One item of my to-do-list is ticked off! The exhibition "100,000 years of sex. About love, lust and fertility." was pretty much astonishing. You would hardly believe sex used to be so ambiguous - open and entrertaining, later secret and controlled. The exhibition includes some artefacts from the area of middle Europe including the Czech Republic and Slovakia. I was happy to find out that shape of my body was considered an ideal shape. Unfortunately for me - in prehistoric ages. No one appreciates it now:-)
Today is the last day of 2008 and it officially equals partying. Party on command though it is so much fun every year. What will year 2009 be like? Thinking of the approaching year makes me slightly nostalgic maybe pesimistically optimistic, thousands of questions arise...what new is going to come? is it going to be good?

Friday, 26 December 2008

Ježíšek

Ježíšek is the guy that brings us the presents we chose in advance (mostly). But even he can surprise you. This Christmas has been calm and peaceful and I have been enjoying it with my parents and grandparents, eating carp, potato salad and ham rolls, watching TV and sleeping (please note that I am not mentioning "drinking" - it is an essential part of Christmas!). Tomorrow we are visiting father's parents and sisters in New Jersey (euphemism for Nový Jičín; it simply sounds better). Wish me luck in kingdom of boredom and hypocrisy. However, it is Christmas!
I am on my vacation now! Awesome - no stress and I have a damn long to-do-list! I have a problem to prioritize a bit - Tutanchamon exhibition or exhibition about sex first? Ski helmet or ski jacket? Well, I need both...some clever time management would do the job:-)

Saturday, 13 December 2008

Krkonoše "rulez"

My one-week vacation is gone. Gone really fast. I spent three days in the Czech most famous mountains - Krkonoše. We spent - me and my colleague - spent 3 days in Janské Lázně, which is not only ski-resort in winter but primarily also a spa resort in summer.
3 weeks before Christmas people don't care about skiing much. For the first time in my life I didn't see any queues to cable car, ski lifts and snow bars. I am not kidding you! Simply no stress. We stayed in a small two-room flat about 100 metres from the cable car - Černohorský Express, which takes you to Černá hora (about 1200 metres above see level). As there was not enough snow, only 3 ski lifts and 4 ski slopes were in operation. Pretty sufficient for us...3 rides - hot wine - 3 rides - lunch - 3 rides - hot wine...etc. :-) You can imagine how amiable the trip was. I switched my skies to snowboard in the afternoon. My first snowboard experience with ancor lift was rather tragic because I fell off, Dita fell on me and we were dragged few meters by my leg. It looks funny now but I though my leg was broken. Uuuuf - it wasn't. My calf has only been heavily bruised and I have bruises to show off now:-).
Second skiiing day we were ghastly tired so we drank more than we skied. One hour before closing time we rented children bobsledge to have a bit fun...we had shitload of fun! From the start we laughed so much that we almost crashed into a tree (imagine 2 adults on a sledge for kids) but second half of the track was very slow and we were awfully tired:-( Kids from a ski course passed us smiling! In the evening I fell ill and spent it in bed with hot tea (or watching TV). But in a nutshell it was a coooool trip!

Sunday, 7 December 2008

First Skiing Trip to Austria

Don't think there is no snow to ski on! We (my colleague and her bf organized it) made a trip to Austrian Stuhleck ski resort (near Semmering) yesterday. It is only a 3-hour drive from Brno and really close to Vienna - only 45-minute drive (plus 35 minutes you spend driving along the highway of this cool city). On the way to Semmering we went through a couple of tunnels (through some of them even several times because of a tiny detour;-)). One of them represents a magic gate to a land of snow. When you get out of it - the land is all covered in snow, unlike when you are entering it.
Stuhleck is a small ski resort but due to fresh snow we had a good time, not only on the slopes (the concept of huts - Hütte - are really one of the best in the world). As it is beginning of the season, there were no crowds, which was amazing. There has been a brand new cable car, built during the past summer season, that operates really fast. At the end of its track there is a brand new restaurant, and brand new clean toilets with extraordinary hand-dryers - kind of basket into which you insert your hands and they are dryed within 10 seconds! No kidding! The cable car (it is a 6-seater) has an orange bubble shield, which makes the world look nice even if there are cats and dogs raining. Some of us considered it violet though. However, I award J&J with a certificate of competence for The Best Saturday Skiing Trip to Stuhleck!
I look forward to a next trip! ....which starts tomorrow (Monday). Being boyfriendless, I plan a few-day skiing holiday in the Czech mountains - Krkonoše. My vacation starts tomorrow.