Last Minute Holiday, Prague & Puppy

Most of the people plan their summer holiday even months, weeks or at least days before. Our family do it different way. Every year we talk about where and if are we going anywhere at all in summer, but we finally decide usually almost in the evening the day before leaving. And it looks like this - we're arguin if we're going to the mountains (where dad wants to go) or somewhere by the sea (where I and mom wants to go) or stay at home (and play videogames, that would be my brother's favourite solution). Then in few mintues we consider Croatia, Ukraine, Italy, we pack our stuff for holiday in Poland and when dad starts to asking if he needs international driving license, we realize we're going somewhere thousand kilometres completely in different direction.

But there's something awesome about these "hurray actions" ..

The first part of our summer holiday this year was a weekend in Prague. First day in the evening I and mom went to a tour with a homeless, organized by Pragulic agency. You wouldn't believe on how many places in Prague there are offered sexual services, drugs and where could you sleep at night. Our guide was - currently already "ex" - homeless, who saw the world of prostitution, drug and living in the street on his own. I highly recommend this tour to everyone, it's very interesting and for me this evening was an amazing experience. I just have to warn you that after this tour, you'll maybe see the Prague with different eyes. After the end of our vacation I and mom used to guess what girls offer their services in the street, we were thinking about what is happening in the restaurants after opening hours, we taught dad and my brother about types of beggary and its earnings and every second person was certainly a Mafioso for us.

source: pragulic.cz

Next day we went to Karlovy Vary. First we went to see our puppy we are going to get and then we went to see the headwaters. I honestly still don't get whz people are so interested in these - it's just warm water that smells like rotten eggs. Yum.

The main colonnade and the original architecture in Karlovy Vary beautiful and after the festival, there is calm and nice atmosphere, however there were two things which scared us:

1) The main language is russian, so if you're not able to read azbuka, you may not be able to read the signs on kiosks with spa waffers.

2) Altough this year, it was already the 50th year of international film festival, that was visited by stars like Richard Geere, the Thermal hotel looks really ugly and shabby from the outside and it looks like typical comunistic buliding - maybe still with the original coating. In the time of the festival, the red carpet covered the asphalt patched  pavement at least.

In the evening we came back to Prague, visited the Charles bridge, Wenceslas Square and walked by the embankment. We heard live music all around, there were so many different types of people from different countries on the street .. Prague has its magic. If I was supposed to live in Czech Republic in the future (I don't want it at all), I'd love to live in Prague. We used to go to Prague almost every holiday when I was younger, but I still don't have enough - the whole atmosphere of the old city, food and clothes shops, and so many Starbucks cafés ... I just love it.

What do you like about Prague? :) Have you ever been to film festival in Karlovy Vary?