Hey. I finally made myself to write something to my blog. It's been happening so much and that`s why it`s especially difficult to begin with something.
So...about THE trip. We left Vilnius at around 6:30 AM. My fellow-traveller Giedrius was examining Auto-route software while I was driving my BMW :) It didn`t take long to reach Kaunas and soon we were at the border of Poland. After having a coffee and a sandwich in the last Lithuanian Statoil gas station we finally drove into the territory of Poland for the first time since we`re in Shengen area. We drove many kilometers through Suwalki, Augustaw, Bialystok, Warsaw, Wroclaw etc. and finally we reached the border of Czech Republic. That meant we`re almost there.
Here started the mountain roads. I`ve never driven under such conditions before so it was really interesting and lots of fun. Finally we drove into our final destination - Špindlerův Mlýn. After couple of hours of wandering in the rain we found our "Horni pramen" hotel and stayed there for the night.
1st day. Unbelievable view through the balcony, but wet, melting snow surrounding all around. We decided not to moss the opportunity and go snowboard anyway. Right after parking the car near the Svaty Petr resort the cops came by and informed us that this place is for busses and taxis only. We had to pay 500 krones per car :)
After that we drove back to the hotel and came back on foot. The 1st impression of the mountain, the lift, the tracks and the boarding itself was simply amazing. But, because of the weather conditions (too string wind) they turned the lifts off.
2nd day. Perfect weather, around -2 degrees Celsius, sunny day, fresh snow etc. Several hours of perfect boarding without too many people and ... a fall that made something bad to my wrists. At first I thought that its nothing serious but then later my left hand swelled and I started feeling pain.
3rd day. Trip to Prague. I`ve never been there before and neither my friend Giedrius did. I had a damaged wrist so the trip was probably the best possible alternative for snowboarding. Unfortunately the oldtown of Prague is simply too big for one day but that means the whole day was full of beauty and positive impressions.
4th day. My wrist was still in pain so I decided not to board one more day. I took my camera instead and went for a walk in the town. Later evening I believe we went out to couple bars with the Lithuanian guys we met on the mountain. We had some Absynth, some Vodka with Red Bull and several beers. And that bought us to pretty drunk condition :) Then we had a nice long drunk walk home in the night. :)
5th day. I decided to go snowboarding carefully. This time we went to this other place called Medvedyn. It was OK, but I liked Svaty Petr better. After falling down couple of times I understood that my wrists aren`t ready for that yet and went back to the hotel room to watch movies :)
6th day. In the morning we found out that one girl that came together with us was seriously sick in the hospital and the second car had to leave already. That`s why we put as many stuff as we could into that car and went to take care of the sick girl. After spending several hours waiting for the paperwork to be done we came back to the hotel and started preparing ourselves for the trip back.
It took whole day more to come back to Vilnius and that`s how my holiday ends :)
Now, one week later I still feel pain in the wrist, but I'm almost able to do everything on my own again.
I put some of the pictures from the trip to my web gallery (some of them are shot by Giedrius):
http://picasaweb.google.com/magnetas/200801260202Cekija
And here`s what it looks like when you go up to Svaty Petr (It was a little bit too sunny for the video to take and the only device I had was my cell phone :))
