Where Czech Locals Go For Summer Vacation?!
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- čas přidán 31. 05. 2024
- Skip Prague and enjoy more local experience - visit Mácháč!
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0:00 Where Locals Actually Go To?
0:37 Miloš Forman Lookout Spot
1:46 Ruins of Jestřebí Castle
3:00 Abandoned houses in Ploužnice
4:23 Abandoned Airport Hradčany
5:24 Mácha Lake
7:00 Doksy Castle
8:39 Where To Eat?
9:58 Cultural Heritage
10:49 Visit Mácha Lake, Do It!
11:41 Czech Word
Thank you for your support!
Janek Rubeš & Honza Mikulka, Prague based journalists
#HonestGuide
Czech tourist are famous in Croatia because often they dissapear somewhere in mountains in flip flops or they get drowned
Slovaks say the same😂
Zato HGSS ima pune ruke posla
😂
That's what we like to do. We ve got hockey, football and getting lost in Croatia mountains wearing a flip flops. Dont touch our national sports! haha love you guys!
Trying to climb Tatra mountains during spring (when there are still meters of snow there) in flip flops and having to be rescued is basically a national sport in Poland, so that's not exclusively a Czech phenomenon
Just came back from Prague. Every second sentence I said to my wife had the words "honest guide" in it. Thank you!
Hope you guys had fun!!!
We had lots of fun! I am sure you know this place but in case you don't "Zmrzlinar" has some seriously delicious ice cream. I Gemüse Corner Kebab was also delicious .. Everything was delicious!
@@Geigenbert good thing you watched the honest guide and you didnt fall for the tourist traps...
Every time Honza appears for a few seconds before disappearing for a long time again,
Every time it feels so exciting and special. Like you just saw a shooting star. ✨
I hope you guys find time to get out of the city and enjoy some summer vacation in one of these amazing places you showed us today~!
Hahahah, you're extremely kind, thanks!
6:00 I had no idea the "poet" was gonna be Honza, but I should have seen it coming 😂 That poem (May, by Karel Hynek Mácha) is *really* long, but here's the first canto in English (it's a homage to the beauty of spring - the lake from it was inspired by Lake Mácha, which we saw in the video and was named after the poet):
Late evening, on the first of May-
The twilit May-the time of love.
Meltingly called the turtle-dove,
Where rich and sweet pinewoods lay.
Whispered of love the mosses frail,
The flowering tree as sweetly lied,
The rose's fragrant sigh replied
To love-songs of the nightingale.
In shadowy woods the burnished lake
Darkly complained a secret pain,
By circling shores embraced again;
And heaven's clear sun leaned down to take
A road astray in azure deeps,
Like burning tears the lover weeps.
A haze of stars in heaven hovers-
That church of endless love's communion-
Each jewel blanches and recovers
As blanch and burn long-parted lovers
In the high rapture of reunion.
How clear, to her full beauty grown,
How pale, how clear, the moon above,
Like maiden seeking for her love,
A rosy halo round her thrown!
Her mirrored image she espied,
And of self-love, beholding, died.
Forth from the farms pale shadows strayed,
Lengthening longing to their kind,
Till they embraced, and close entwined,
Coiled low into the lap of shade,
Grown all one twilight unity.
Tree in the shadows writhes to tree.
In the far mountains' dark confine
Pine leans to birch and birch to pine.
Wave baunting wave the streamlets move.
For love's sake-in the time of love-
Anguished goes every living thing.
A fair girl at the rim of land
Watches the evening's rosy phases;
Under the oak-tree by the strand
Far out across the lakes she gazes.
Blue to her feet it coils and glimmers,
And green beyond, and greener, sleeps,
Till in the distances and deeps
In clear, pale light all melts and shimmers.
Over the wide and watery plain
The girl has fixed her weary gaze;
Over the wide and watery plain
Only the glint of starlight plays.
A lovely girl, an angel ravaged,
A bud that April winds have savaged,
In her pale cheeks doomed beauty hastens.
One hour has swallowed up her morrow,
One hour her promise chills and chastens,
Marries her May to grief and sorrow.
Of twenty days the last has died;
Still dreams the quiet countryside.
The last light hastens to its close,
And heaven, like a great, clear rose,
Over the deep blue mountains flushes.
“He comes not! Ah, such anguish takes me!
Another spoiled, and he forsakes me!”
A heavy sigh her sad voice bushes,
Her aching heart burns in her breast,
And with the water's plaint unsleeping
Mingles the note of bitter weeping.
Snared in her tears the stars find rest,
Down her pale cheeks like bright sparks flowing
Till like quenched stars they burn to shades there,
On her cold countenance briefly glowing.
And where they fall, the blossom fades there.
At the rock's rim she glimmers whitely;
A silken standard flies her gown,
In evening zephyrs fluttering lightly.
Her eyes on distance fix and frown-
In haste she dries her blinding tears,
Beneath her shading hand she peers,
And on the distant shore she fastens,
Where in the hills the lake creeps hiding;
Over the waves live sparks go gliding,
Star after watery starlet bastens.
Even as snow-white virgin doves
Against dark wastes of cloud in flight,
On water-lily flowering white
On deepest blue-so something moves-
Where in the hills the lake creeps hiding-
Over the dark waves nearer gliding,
Nearer in haste. A moment proves
Now as the stork's grave flight it looms,
No dove so flies nor lily blooms,
But a white sail rocked by hasting breezes.
A slender oar the blue wave teases,
With flaming furrows the surface bazing.
The golden rose of heaven's hold,
High in the mountain oakwoods blazing,
Gilds the ripples with rosy gold.
“Swift litlle boat! Near, nearer bounding!
'Tis be! 'Tis be! Those plumes bright beaming,
The hat, the eyes beneath it gleaming-
His cloak-” The boat in the beach is grounding.
Over the rocks his light step rings,
By a known path he climbs and closes.
The girl's pale face flowers into roses;
From the tree's shade in wild hope flying
She runs, high-calling, runs and springs,
And on the rower's breast she's lying-
“Alas, my heart!: The moonlight shows
In its full flood a face she knows.
Her pounding blood to terror knells her.
Where is Vilem?”
“See, by the lake,”
In low grim tone the boatman tells her,
“Above the night the forests make
Rises a tower, its image white
Deep in the lake's heart drowned from sight;
But deeper, see, at the water's rim,
From a little window a lantern's gleam;
This night to vigil Vilem is giving:
Tomorrow sets him free from living.
His heavy guilt and yours he carries:
Deep your seducer's blood has stained him,
That stroke a parricide arraigned him.
Still, still revenge the avenger barries!
A felon's death! Peace to him bring,
Lord, when that face, the rose outshining,
In its high place stands withering,
And in the wheel his limbs are twining!
So dies the dreaded Forest King!
Bear for his guilt, and your own shame,
My bitter curse, and the world's blame!”
He turns. His voice to silence falls;
Down he climbs through the rocky walls,
Outward his boat goes gliding.
Swift as the stork's flight, beating fast,
Dwindling, dwindling, a lily at last,
Over the lake in the mountains hiding.
Hushed are the waters, dark, forlorn,
In deep dusk all things crouch to cover.
A white dress gleams on the waves that mourn
Over her: “Jarmila!” like a lover,
And the woods sigh: “Jarmila!” over and over.
Late evening, on the first of May-
The twilit May-the time of love.
To dalliance woos the turtle-dove:
“Jarmila! Jarmila!! Jarmila!!!”
yesterday i saw you in a danish episode of a series called "zero stars" where two guys visit places with bad reviews in diffrent countries. then me and my parrents watched your youtube afterwards because i have been a fan of you for some time now.
I saw a Danish Television episode with Jan and Morten, visiting Prague, and got a tour with you, Janik ! Fun to see you on Danish Televison :)
Just saw Yannek on Danish TV. What a pleasant surprise :D
4:30 I love how no one mentions, that u used your own footage from back in the day to showcase that car-races are happening there haha.
We in Kuldiga (historical name - Goldingen), Latvia had the same situation with the Castle (Castle of Jakob von Kettler, the Baltic German Duke of the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia (1642-1682)). Locals took the stones from it to build their houses. The stones are mostly only in the foundations, thus you cannot spot a house made from the stones. The stones are under ground ;)
Fantastic job, guys! I´ve lived in Doksy all my life and although I knew I love it here, after watching this video I realized that, in fact, I REALLY ABSOBLOODYLUTELY LOVE IT here! And I´m glad you enjoyed your stay here. Cheers!
I just barely got back from the Czech Republic, we were all over Prague, UH, and Brno, your guides were SO handy! Thank you!
Its my favorite childhood memory going on the Ještěd every summer season and eating guláš. My relatives live veeery close to the borders to Czechia AND Poland in Germany so we always have the best advantage to visit like 2 different countries within a day. Would love so see a video about what you can do when you are close to 2 borders like Germany(hiking in Lückendorf or visiting the castle of Oybin) and Poland!
Greetings from the most eastern city in Germany!
I was travelling by car from Dresden eastwards a few years ago. We had lunch in Bautzen, went to a Sorbian bookshop,, onwards to Gorlitz, still a few miles across a creek. It turned out to be the border with Poland. The road was terrible, full of potholes, then turned south back into Czech Republic again So I was in three countries by afternoon. Wow, Europe sure is small. Now I can understand better how battles were fought and borders changed. The ''One Tin Soldier'' song lyrics: ''' Go ahead and hate your neighbor, go ahead and cheat a friend, do it in the name of Heaven, you can justify it in the end......'' seemed appropriate.
Great with videos from the different regions of the Czech Republic. More of them please.
Hey guys, thanks for the video! I sincerely hope you'll continue showcasing Liberecky kraj. Thanks to you I have more trip ideas in my area than ever! Greetings from Jelenia Góra.
I have plenty fond memories from the “lake”, from its camps mainly. It gets crowded in summer, but always I loved spending few days there with my friends, partying, swimming, getting tanned and chilling by water. Although as a kid I used to go with my family a bit further, to Lipno or Dvoriste, or we were paddling down rivers. Anywhere by water is a must for summer ;)
Greetings from an old subscriber whom happen to be from Denmark and just watched you popping up on a Danish TV show! What a delightful surprise.
I hope our two travelling dorks didn't embarrasse us too much 😂❤
Loved that you included some Urban/Rural Exploration too!!
Man, I miss being around Czechs. I live in an area where there are none at all in Canada here. Parents came to Canada when the Soviet Union moved in. Pretty neat history! Thanks for your videos!
Bistro u Strnada is an absolute blast! We have a cottage near by and everytime i am going to chill here from Prague i go to Bistro at least for the Ice Cream, they also got very good burgers and other kinds of food. Only downside, during main season it can get pretty crowded, but definitely recommending to try it out.
Also, if you manage to go hiking in forests and manage to get to Brehynsky Rybnik (you can take yellow tourist path and stop at Kralovsky Stolec - nice view), there is a place called "U Lekninu", they got veeeeeeery good ice cream with some non-traditional flavors (Poppy seed, Cinnamon, Plum jam, Pavlova, etc) and you can mix em, poppy seec with cinnamon was my favorite last summer
I love going to Machač, especially like in this video in the great czech summer weather 🥲
I love when you guys get out of Prague into the rest of the country... More of these, please!
Danny DeVito got his part in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" in part because he had the exact same role in the play. Jack Nicholson was cast for the film but was not the actor from the play. There are some interesting interviews with Danny DeVito where he talks about that & some of the differences.
Love the party harder mention 🤣 love that film
Hello Janek. Did not expect to randomly see you on Danish national television. 🎉 What a surprise!! They were like “what cool guy!” after saying goodbye doing the valuta exchange. 🤣
Did they upload it to youtube? I'd watch it lol.
Janek the man!😁
When? Where? I need to see it😀
Opuštěné budovy jsou fascinující bez ohledu na to kde jsou. Díky, že nás ukázat.
You should have shown Bezděz castle, it's amazing place close to the lake.
I’m currently In Bohemia Switzerland on your recommendations so I’ll definitely check out some of these locations tomorrow while I’m here, thanks guys please show us more from outside Prague. CZ aid such a beautiful country there’s so much more than just the capital city, beautiful though it is ❤🇨🇿
I was hoping for Videos about Liberec, cant wait to see more.
Its great to see Honza in front of the camera!
Hi Janek. It was nice to see You in program of Danish Television 👍😉🇩🇰🇨🇿❤ I hope that You get more subscribers efter this 😊
Subscribed. As we are going to Prague for a vacation your videos have opened our eyes to the does and don’t around the city.
Great episode guys 😊
Hi, I'm going to Prague in a few weeks solo. Your channel is gonna be my guide
I really enjoy your trips into the area around Prague
Have you done any videos of the Sumava? I love it there and it's so beautiful
Agree. I want to go there.
Cool video man
wow I wish i can come there so nature i love the surroundings 🤩
Speaking about the great Miloš Forman, did you guys commented already on "Amadeus" tourism, i must confess that in one of many visits to Prague we actually looked for the film locations. Going to see Don Giovanni at Stavovské divadlo its also an amazing experience for the Amadeus lovers out there. Regards from Brussels.
Did you also get to see Invalidovna as part of the "Amadeus tour"? The funny thing is it's a film location for Amadeus, as well as Hellboy! And they shot one of the Mission Impossibles right next to it :D
@@terentule Yes, beautiful, i think it was the location where Mozart was playing a Piano Concerto. I didn't know about the other movies, now i will need to check :) Thanks for the comment.
@@ptdive I believe the location was used for the hospital where Salieri tells the story :). And yes, that location is often swarming with film crews. I believe also something from Carnival Row was shot there.
I will add Čytřlístek comics and merch to my souvenir list for the next trip. From the little I have read so far I feel a kinship with Myšpulín.
Beauty of Europe, so many amazing places you could go to, even just in a car!
even without a car...😉
Petrol is a rip off unfortunately.
Excellent, I'm going to Liberec in January and staying in Hotel Jested, so tips for the area would be really helpful.
Just noticed you are going in January. That will all depend on whether there is any snow or not. Plenty of ski slopes though 🙂
Can’t wait for the Liberec episode 😍
Was expecting and happily surprised to see you in the danish TV show "Nul Stjerner"(zero star rating). Good work!
I already know Sloup but was never aware that this region exists several kilometers away. I always search for really cool spots in CR because it's not far away and its the CR :-) díky za to. Prosím udělejte víc videa jako tento.
Going to Czech Republic in August for a road trip. We will skip Prague...Wanted to go to Liberec, made a hotel reservation, however, the owner abandoned the hotel and didn't cancel the reservations - I just found out checking out the current reviews. So we will skip Liberec too but going to Telc, Kutna Hora, Adršpašské scaly, Novy Bor, Hrensko, etc. Lake Macha is very close to Novy Bor - so we will check out! Thank you for the tip!
03:00 we have something similar in Latvian, called: Skrunda-1
Wish I found this channel before I visited prague ! Next time 🥰
Beautiful ❤
Yeah, more on what locals do !
What are Czech People do for recreation and Holiday? Yes today go most of them to Croatia (it is easy because of language). But Number, Number, Number #1 is still the own Chata/ Chalupa anywhere in the Country. I think every Czech has one own. There is nearly a certain Czech Chata Culture. It is worth to make a Special Edition only about Chata/ Chalupa. Some are made of Wood and really nice. A lot of my Czech Friends spent half of their Childhood in „Chata Living“. I wonder if Janek Ort Honzas Family don‘t have their „own House in Nature“. This Weekend i had an Invitation to „Udoli Rak“, some real Specialists knows
, it is a complete Village of Chatas/ Chalupas not far from Prague (20 km in the middle of nowhere, but very beautiful).
Just returned from Liberec. Lovely city.
It was pretty cool seeing you on the danish tv program "nul stjerner".
Saw Janek in the Danish tv program "Nul stjerner" was a great surprise, just a shame it was only a short appearance!
Třeskoprsky. A land of my childhood. Or, almost every czech child’s childhood. Although, I’ve never been there…
Lake Mácha, our Czech sea ❤️🌊
Have to say, it was quite the surprise to see you show up on danish national tv.
If you like abandoned airports where people can walk on the former airstrips, visit Tempelhof Airport in Berlin! :D
Janek, thank you for this! We need to know the hidden gems of Czechia.
Have fun exploring, it's worth it!
You can also visit Lipno (a dam in the mountains of southern Bohemia). We used to rent a tiny cheap yacht ⛵ and sail from one village to another. It's in the middle of a national park too.
Taking rocks from old castles and manors was very common in Finland also
Chuchle 2023! :-)
Nice ❤
This country is so cool
But the people are so miserable
You should visit the graveyard of the final scene on Amadeus!! I went there with my Genious Loci of Prague class in UMPRUM, loved it :))
Pizza Nouva was rated in the top 50 pizzerias in Europe by an Italian Pizza Organization. Was very good and pretty cheap for old town prices.
I’m from India and I have been to Podebrady and Kutna horo so nice
They go to Croatia
Most of people (especially families with kids) can't really afford vacation in Croatia, they just go to their summer cabin and visit some local pond or lake. Prices in Croatia are much higher than here and when you pay for 5 people, you just can't stay in hotel, it's too expensive.
@@Pidalin dude you are on every comment that mentioned Croatia if your ass is poor that dont mean everyone is, i meet personaly thousands od chezchs in Croatia every year
@@ivanmilavic44 I am not poor, I go to Croatia, but I pay only for myself so I can handle that, I am just saying that it's nonsense to say that all Czechs go to Croatia, most of them don't have foreign vacation at all, they just sit at their gardens and drink cheapest beer. 😀 Many Czechs are also poor in their mind (not actually in wallet) and they consider you stupid that you go to some vacation and pay for that, they take vacation to work on their house or something, this culture is really ridiculous. What you see in Croatia are not average redneck Czechs. So when you think Czech tourists are the worst, then you have no idea how such a stupid average redneck Czech really looks like because these are not in Croatia. 😀
Looking forward to Liberec, love the center with the old buildings. Walk from the own hall ("Liberecká radnice") via Masarykova to the small Zoo in the center. (or start at the zoo car parking, that is 50 CZK for the whole day)
Technical Museum Liberec for the car and transport lover and/or the (free) North Bohemian Museum on the way there.
I do recommend the Rybářská bašta if you like seafood, a nice cold beer or watching the pelicans.
Ok someone should translate this comic into German it would be loved here.
Got a Pripyat feeling in the abonned houses in Mimon.
I think you should visit Greece this summer !
Anywhere in Czech Republic. Anywhere is beautiful for a nice family vacation.
You suit danish television!😁
Some day I too will visit. 🌴🌴Aloha
SOO funny to see you in the Danish tv program "Nul stjerner"!
Make a video about Bohemian Paradise
Czech tourists are very common in Bosnia. I saw and met so many of Czech tourists in Bosnia.
Party hard 🎉🎉😂😂😂
I can only imagine how nice czech poetry would be....hmm..never thought about it before today
When I was 17 I was there with the bike and a small tent.
No mention of Miší Díra? Fair enough, might be overrun by tourists from outside Czechia at this point. Still incredible and a great place to explore!
They are going to Croatia too 🤗
You can find half of CR in croatia during summer
I live here 😂❤❤❤
Hey, but how people can easily get from Prague to this lovely lake? By train? Bus? Renting a car? By bike?
Wow, that aircraft bunker and camping cabins look like they came strait from game "DayZ". If you are familiar with that game, maybe you could make entire episode looking for game assets in real life Check republic.
If I'm not mistaken, DayZ was created by Czech developers, so it's definitely possible there was some inspiration here.
Developer is Bohemia Interactive they captured many area landscapes and structures. Enjoy seeing more places across Czech 🇨🇿
Most go to Croatia!! I only go Croatia off season = more peace 😂
Please make a video about Liberec city.
Dear honest guide, can you do a vodeo about czech holidays, i saw you have one virtually every month.
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3:30 we have the same in brother Slovakia, it is now part of a NATO base in Lešt though. So, no access anymore.
I DO know Milos Forman! But instead of knowing him for the famous movies alone that he made in Hollywood later on, I remember him for Hoří, má panenko that I saw as a kid, even though I am a Swede :D
really? how it happened?😂🙋🇨🇿
@@theoteddy9665 Yeah I know, it's odd! But maybe it has to do with my dad being in Czech and having GF there around the time of czech spring uprising.
Just what makes it a "fishpond" instead of a lake? Is it because of the shallow depth you mentioned? Maybe the specific depth was important to sailors trying to get around it.
fishponds are not created by nature.
Are you Czechs welcome here? Because here in Sovenija the major of our popular mountain resort of Bled said that we Slovenes needn't come there. They obviously have enough of foreign tourists until those will realize that just over the border in austria, there are plenty of such and even more beautiful places to go, usualy also, at least a bit, more financaly affordable. Paying three euros for a scoop of ice cream and five euros for the 'famous' bled's kremscnitte (which is even not originaly from there) is a real absurd when you can get both for half such price in an everage slovene pastiserie.
I see you have met some fellows Danes from Danish national tv
@HONEST GUIDE How often do Chzechian people kick their cats per week? Once? Twice? Or more? Thanks!
I love that also Honza get some screen time, btw I would swich them, hes cuter...more chicks would visit HONEST GUIDE!
The runway is Ralsko but I am pretty sure you cannot enter freely outside of any events taking place.
Jak si můžeš po takové době nevybavit že točená je "soft serve"?
Welcome to India
Fish pond - reservoir/ non public airstrip- airdrome.