marienbad (marianske lazne) - CZ - czech republic, our gate to eastern europe

i've spent tons of time in eastern europe in september (CZ, PL, SK), you know? i hope i will find enough time to upload few pictures and insights, we will see 😃
anyway, the most discussed topic out there were the refugees streaming to europe from war struggled mid-east.

the most interesting thing for me was that i have moved around mostly in the former german areas and yes, there is not much german spirit if any left out there ... of course, after the WWII were 12 to 15 million germans expelled from their homes (the numbers depend on source and yes, many, many germans were killed on the way ... the official number on wikipedia are 12 million germans who came to post-war west & east germany). any lessons learned?

• a war is always a bad, bad, bad issue
• dear germans, please don't cry about 500.000 refugees from syria, afghanistan, iraq, libya etc. ... the number is less than 1% of german population and yes, the refugees wouldn't come to europe when the so civilized western-christian 'community of values' led by CIA, USA, NATO, france, great britain, germany, drones, bombs & Co. wouldn't destroy their countries in the first place. of course, this western values (= chaos, death & destruction) are often locally promoted by western trained + financed terrorist groups like FLA, FSA, al-qaeda, ISIS / ISIL, al-nusra-front, ... if you asked me, turkey + saudi arabia + qatar also heavily supported these terrorists groups in order to ensure their local goals like e.g. the turkish-government's dream of the destruction of kurds ...

ok, let's start with our journey which the best of all wives & me started in the spa marienbad (marianske lazne):

 our hotel belvedere

hotel polonia

  my miss polonia

the spa centre with the singing fountain

spa house + belvedere

hotel nove lazne

spa in hotel nove lazne

http://jarogruber.blogspot.de/2016/01/trnava.html http://jarogruber.blogspot.de/2016/01/slovakia.html

3 emperors :-)

enjoy more marienbad pictures in google album here

our + my next stations in the 2 + 1 weeks in eastern europe were [czech republic, poland, slovakia, austria (vienna is east of prague, you know?), germany]:

• elbogen (loket) ~ CZ
• harrachsdorf (harrachov) ~ CZ
• schreiberhau (szklarska poreba) ~ PL
• swieradow-zdroj (bad flinsberg) ~ PL
• hirschberg im riesengebirge (jelenia gora) ~ PL
• lodz - lodsch - litzmannstadt ~ PL
• biala rawska + sadkowice (here was the wedding, the main reason for our eastern europe trip :-) ~ PL
• jasna gora in czestochowa ~ PL
• bad kudowa (kudowa-zdroj) ~ PL
• adersbach-weckelsdorfer felsenstadt in adersbach (adrspach) => adršpašsko-teplické skály) ~ CZ
• karlstein (karlstejn) ~ CZ
• königgrätz (hradec kralove HK) ~ CZ
• müglitz (mohelnice) ~ CZ
• sternberg (sternberk) ~ CZ
• olmütz (olomouc) ~ CZ
• rusava ~ CZ
• kremsier (kromeriz) ~ CZ
• vsetin (settein, setteinz) ~ CZ
• stupava + pressburg (bratislava) ~ SK
• brünn (brno) ~ CZ
• reutlingen, tübingen, schwäbische alb ~ DE
• smolenice ~ SK
• trnava ~ SK
• slovakia ~ einsiedel (mnisek nad hnilcom), schmöllnitz (smolnik), kosice (kaschau), bratislava (pressburg), stupava ~ SK
• ybbs ~ AT

eof