Photogallery
2009 - Brewery and Winery Tour
24.6. - 7.7.2009

Arrival at Prague airport...

Welcome dinner at penzion Ganymed in Prague
"Becherovka" is a really good stuff...

At Pegas microbrewery in Brno

The village of Straznice - Cecelia´s new home ?

Is it really that funny?

"Verbunk" contestant

Young musicians

Dráteník = an old craft,
repairing pottery with wire

Folk art - basket weaving

Preparations for the bridal attire

Dance action

Linda, Judy and Al enjoying the Open Air Museum

They start young in Moravia...

The basket queen in her basket kingdom

Enviroment-conscious Moravian lady

The 64th International Folk Festival parade ...

... in Strážnice starts...

...with the youngest generation,

and they take it seriously!

A new Paganini?

Paganini´s granny?

Strážnice madonna

An ensemble from Moravia

Dancers from South Korea

An ensemble from Greece

An ensemble from Uzbekistan

Musicians from South Korea

Demonstrating the "Verbuňk" dance

Straznice wedding performance

Happy audience

The famous blue and white wine cellars at Petrov

How about some wine ?

" Na zdraví ! "

" Cheers ! "

An experience to remember ! We´ll be back...

Calendar of ages - the world famous site of
archeological excavations in Dolni Vestonice

Dining at the foot of the castle Divci Hrady

In a vinyard below the Palava hills...

UNESCO World Heritage Site - the town of Telč

Lunch in a garden restaurant at Telč

Třeboň - visiting the family brewery REGENT

Regent brewmaster´s special... is good!

Still at the Regent brewery, Třeboň

The Vltava river in Cesky Krumlov - way above the usual level

Evening in Cesky Krumlov

Medieval dinner in the catacombs in Cesky Krumlov

Visiting friends in Ceske chalupy near the village of Brloh

In an old village kitchen

Genuine Czech "kolace" - delicious!

Enjoying the Czech hospitality...

Ruins of the Kuklov monastery...

... and the magnificant Hluboka chateau

In front of the Hluboka chateau art gallery

Storks... mother and baby doing fine

Excursion at the Pilsner brewery

A Pilsner Urquell bottling line

An old way of brewing Pilsner Urquell...

,,, and the new one.

Mariánské Lázně - spa town

The Singing Fountaine near...

...The Colonnade

The Premonstratensian monastery at Teplá
- the same order as at St.Norbert´s in De Pere, WI, USA

The monastery library holds over 100 000 books

Enjoying the beer bath at the first ever
beer spa in the Czech Republic

What a way to go ...

Up Close and Personal

The town of Rabstejn (the smallest town in Europe)

Hop fields near Žatec

Hops museum in Zatec

Hops museum in Žatec

At a glass factory one of us got to try a hand at it

Final days in Prague

Final evening...