LTG the pyramid scheme? Will QF LTG (Lift Their Game) ?? Europe 2024 for tipping over LIFE TIME GOLD

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Thur 11 July
Prague Trams of course

 

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Prague
Charles Bridge & surrounds

 

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Got surprised by the leaf
But found a funky underrated Art café Orf the main drag
Was a real gem
Beachy even

 

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On the stroll to the palace

 

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More strolling

 

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And now for something completely different

I’m yet to curate the next lot of photos
It’s been a lengthy 3 month journey and I took way too many photos already (coming Upto 2 months in the next week)

So I will endeavour to prune back the uploads and keep the progress going - trip reports do cover a lot of ground as it is
And have taken a further 5 flights (4 on points) and one paid ITA Sky Priority J (with its weight in gold given bypassing long security lines plus lounging plus checked bags) all for 60 Euros more than base no checked luggage economy!! -

some with meals provided and all with lounge access - how good is SG And with soon to be LTG no issues in future and making it easy to just fly with points

 

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Matching into Prague Castle precinct
Thur 11 July

Working on fixing mortar

Moldovan soup at a cathedral café !



Heading into the Old Old Town

Lots of porcelain & glassware
Particularly liked this piece

 

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Fri 12 July
Prague
Some funicular and fun old town scenes on the departure drive



Definitely got lost on the exit this trying to find the bottom of the funicular
Lunch on the road

 

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Ossuary Kutba Hora

No photos of skeletons permitted sighs

The cathedral

The cute afternoon coffee café

 

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Fri 12 July
Brno
Note the Soviet era ‘item

Great wine selection at the hotel next door and the food was wonderful

 

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Sat 13 July
Brno St James church
Apparently ossuary are a thing as Cemetry got overloaded and started to cause sanitation
Issues

Also a few local including an antique tram


Bones at last

 

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The coffee café in Brno
And the promised vintage tram


Blending the old bad new - food delivery never looked so amazing !



Departing Brno and stop for petrol adjacent a museum with an Australian Greg Norman

 

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Sat 13 July

Soviet era town to support industry


Museum of Slovak uprising 1948 in Banska Bystrica
A wicked Wiener

The town square


Blending the new and old

 

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Sunday 14 July
Showering by the freeway !



Then it’s Orf to Zvolen to laundry so it’s Michelle’s for coffee


And trains

And a happy birthday at the castle

 

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Zvolen castle
Slovak art gothic




Love me a Babylon

 

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Sun 14 July
The medieval mining town of Spania Dolina



Back to banska bystrica for dinner
Pork Knuckle = DIVINE

 

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Monday 15 July
And it’s on the road to Senica

Complete only made of wood church at Hronesk



On a road to nowhere. We hit this shortcut in the way down and again on the way back. The bridge was definitely SHUT so detour wasn’t showing on the TOMTOM GPS but we got the run around


Arrived in Senica and the Qantas hotel instructions were WAY OUT OF DATE. What a circus!

a Monday night and nothing opened bar one bar, one fancy wine bar and the Döner kebab shop

 

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Tuesday 16 July
Slovakia


Best iced coffee brilliant cafe



Driving north

 

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Fancy mansion castle for overnight stay

 

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Breakfast included at the Castle