Sunday, May 20, 2012

Po dveh letih spet letim v Lescah

Lesce, 20.5.2012

Summary
After 2 years I have made my first flights in Lesce. The weather was not too promising, but the forecast for next 3 days is much worse so I decided to go flying. It was strong south wind which made flying in mountains easy. 4 hours of pure enjoyment!

Končno spet en pravi »wind-powered« prispevek. Po dveh letim spet na domačem letališču v Lescah. Vremenska napoved ni bila najbolj optimistična, vendar je bila napoved za naslednje dni veliko slabša. Močan južen veter je zelo olajšal jadranje v Karavankah. Dviganja niso bila zelo močna, vendar se je vseeno dalo priti dovolj visoko. 4 ure čistega užitka!


Sunday, May 6, 2012

Praga

Praga, 27.4. - 1.5.2012

Summary
For some time we were talking about visiting Prague. I almost visited Prague when I was a kid, but our Zastava 101 broke down in Austria and we returned. This time everything was going as planned – except delay when we were passing Vienna.

Prague is great city to visit. It is renovated, clean and you feel safe at any time of the day (and night), which is not a case for some other European cities. In the past this was cheap destination well loved by people in Slovenia. Now it is not that cheap anymore and you can see that Prague is big city.

We have visited old city center, famous Charles Bridge and Hradčany. At the end of April Prague was full of tourists. Especially in the city center and Charles Bridge. But there were no street salesmen who are trying to sell hours, bags or other cheap stuff.

Definitely great town to visit.


O obisku Prage smo se pogovarjali že nekajkrat. V preteklosti bi jo kot otrok skoraj že obiskal, če se nam ne bi na poti pokvarila Zastava 101 v Visokih Turah v Avstriji. Tokrat je šlo vse po planu. Na poti tja smo porabili uro in pol na poti skozi Dunaj. Pot nazaj je tekla hitro in smo bili doma v sedmih urah (okoli 730km).



Praga je lepo mesto. Zgradbe so lepo obnovljene in vzdrževane. Mesto je čisto in varno. Nasplošno se Praga ne razlikuje veliko od drugih evropskih velemest. Še največja razlika je mogoče v tem, da kljub velikemu številu turistov ni uličnih prodajalcev ponaredkov (ur, torbic,…) in poceni spominkov. Sigurno ni več podobna Pragi iz časov masovnih sindikalnih nakupovalnih izletov.



Ogledali smo si vse večje znamenitosti. Staro mestno jedro, zelo znan Karlov most in grad Hradčany. Za potepanje po mestu smo si kupili tridnevno karto za mestni promet. Mestni promet imajo lepo urejen in še posebej zanimiva je vožnja s tramvaji, ki jih je v Pragi veliko.



Hradčany


Staro mestno jedro


Hradčany - katedrala svetega Vita


Stanovali smo v Aparthotelu Angel, ki je bil prostoren in zelo blizu tramvaja, podzemne železnice in nakupovalnega centra. Glede na število zvezdic bi lahko imel tudi pomivalni stroj.

Mesto je definitivno vredno ogleda.