Selfish travel wishes

[ritaxis]

I want to go to this folk dance festival in Moravia. I don't know how to get there, though there is a taxi service from Prague to there for 30 Euro per car (and up to 8 people, all for one price). It's a three or four hour drive depending on the route.It happens right after I get there, so I don't know about managing it. Fortunately, there is also this folk dance festival right in Prague.

I missed getting to the botanical garden on two occasions. This is my big chance. I'm doing a study of the map of the place, trying to figure out, strategically, how my achy knees are going to get around the whole place. Sine the entry fee is 50 CZK -- usually a bit over $2.50 -- I figure on going more than once.

Another place I have never been is Divoka Sarka, a nature preserve on the edge of town (on which I have modeled "More Boemek," a forested area at the edge of the capital of the Empire in the not-poland book, even before ever seeing it, so you can see why I need to see it). Of course, I also want to go swimming there!  It amuses me very much that you can ride the streetcar to the forest.

. . . also, I think, wild mushroom season is summer in Central Europe.

In all this time I have never gone to a black light theater. Probably Frank hasn't either. It's kind of a tourist thing. You should read that wikipedia entry, it is a lovely example of Czechlish. It's almost a natural translation into English, but it still bears the stamp of Czech grammar.

Also, I should go to the planetarium in Prague Castle. And the old castle at Vysehrad. And the Zizkov tower again.

My brother in law is begging for us to visit him in Denmark. It would cost about 200 dollars each to fly to Copenhagen and then get a bus to Odense, so it might be doable.

Also, there's the usual museum hopping and a trip to the Cross Club and this one ice cream parlor we went to before.

Comments

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

also, I think, wild mushroom season is summer in Central Europe.

I remember tons of gorgeous-looking chanterelles for sale in early August in the Munich Viktualienmarkt. With any luck they will indeed be in season when you arrive in Prague, because iirc they were relatively inexpensive, too.

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

I was honestly thinking more on the line of riding the streetcar to the forest and finding them myself . . .

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

That works, too. May they be plentiful.

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

And not already spotted by Czechs who know the territory! But it will be fun either way!

And if I don't find anything in the forest, there's always the possibility of hunting for them in stores, too.