So tonight I asked Michelle to post some pictures showing the buildings in this town. Where you see railings is where the river is running and at the lovely cream building with the orange decoration you see the stairs leading to one of the many Bridges. There are hotels and stores on each side and many places to cross back and forth. The cream building with the green shutters and the red flower boxes is directly across the road from our hotel and the view from the dining area.
This morning we started at the museum which was excellent and provided a lot of information about the town since it's inception. The second picture shows you a cross section of pipe and the orange bit is the mineral build up.
It was pouring with rain when we entered the museum so we hoped for a better afternoon. The rain had stopped when we came out. It had been very hot and dry in the building so we had to go for a coffee and cake before moving on. We went to the restaurant below which has operated under this name since the days when my mum went to afternoon tea dances here as a teenager in around 1929 and her little brother Ernie was sent along as her chaperone. We're on holiday so to hell with the diet. I had trouble choosing but settled for the mandarins over a marscapone filling. What could be bad?
As you can see from the photo below, it was a nasty looking sky but we decided to chance it and rode the funicular railway up to the top look-out. We've been through enough of the town now over two visits to recognize several buildings from on high. The railway took us down again to the lower look-out. We had considered riding up and walking down but thank goodness we changed our minds at the last minute due to the weather and the condition of our feet. There seemed to be a lot of confusing trails and they were poorly sign posted.
The big building in the centre of the lower photo is the Imperial Hotel. On our last visit here we rode a similar funicular up to it and had coffee there. The views are, of course, wonderful. From the lower level today the houses look like dolls houses.
The photo below was taken by a machine called Cosmocard. It takes several pictures of you and you get to choose which one you like best. Then you pick which surround you want and then you select the wording you prefer. It puts it all together and you pay for the number of postcards you want. And that's not all. Then you provide your email address and they send you the digital version. Interesting that all the possible captions called the place Carlsbad which is the German name that was used before WWII.
We're saying goodbye to this place tomorrow and are taking the 11 o'clock bus to Prague where we'll be meeting with my relative and friend Carol as well as my lifelong friend Wally and their respective partners. The six of us will have dinner together so not sure if there will be time to blog tomorrow.
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