Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Via Vienna to Brno and Back -November 2008

Ahoj! It's lucky to have friends around the world - a perfect excuse to travel! At the moment one of my friend study in university of Brno so I had opportunity to visit in Czech to know that second biggest city of it. There are a lot of students in Brno and several international line also (or that's the impression which I get). I can't call Brno as a beutiful city or even pretty but it's fascinating like every old towns. You can spend there few days or week but during that you'r seen mosty all what theres to see. Few museum, few big and several smaller churc, some castels like Castle of Spielperg top of the hill midlle of forest park -and from where you have a great wiev over the city (or you could if it's not too misty like when we were..)

We spend one day at smaller and older city called Olomouc -and that was pretty town! I love this small old cities wich are kept their old faces. There was old astrological clock, same as Prague and we were lucky to be there 12o'clock to see that moving the time. I can recommend Olomouc for everyone. It's truly good spirit town!

Food in Czech was quite much what I expect; fat with cream, cheese, salt and sugar. It wasn't always easy to get vegetarian food and even harder to get healthy food.. but we were only 4 days so we try to enjoy as local food as possible (and didn't think about calories). Beer is most common drink in everywhere there and at Brno there is also few big brewery. We visit only in the brewery restaurant of Starobrno.

And of course we were watscing a hockey game of local team - and they won 7-1!! Yeah! Perhaps because of that the athmosphere was truly amazing. I've image that finnish are hockeypeople but czech are much vigorously!

We fly to Vienna and rent a car from Vienna airport for those four days we spend there. It was easier way to move there with three people and paggages. I drove. It was my first time really drive away from finland and first I was really really nervous... but things went fine and we get finnish speaking navigator into car which help a lot. Vienna is hugh tangle for driver but we handle that ok and czechs motorways are like a colefield comparing finnish plump roads so when speed was nearly 150km/h it feels like you've drive motorboat on the waves.