Holidays

You can spend holidays in many ways. A lot depends when you take your holiday and on money. You can make a trip with travel agency – go around world or travel trough our republic or you can go by auto-stop, by plain, by bus, by train, by your own car or by bicycle or when you have good condition you can go by foot.

When you want to travel with travel agency, you don’t have any worries. You have choice a travel agency. Then you visit the travel agency and take a catalogue of trips, because you need time to choice the best trip for you. Then you go to the travel agency and pay the advance payment, usually about 30% of full price. You must choice the type of hotel, because for one trip you usually have several types of hotels, the different is in the quality or the distance from the sea, if you travel to the sea. Sometime you have a selection of meals – you can have no meals in the price, you can have two meals in the day usually it is breakfast and the evening meal, and you can have in the price tree meals of course. When you want to have a single room than you must pay a little bit more. There are two main types of trips – the cultural trip to well-known historic places, seeing nice architecture sights and famous paintings and sculptures and the other type of trips are for recreation – you can stay in mountains or seaside resorts. You can have the stay with sports or education program. I prefer the combination trips, because I hate the boring lying on the beach all the days and sightseeing all the day too.

If you go to the seaside, you usually go to Mediterranean, especially Majorca and Menorca, then Greece, Italy, French Riviera, Spain – Costa Brava, and also the places in North Africa, Tunis and Egypt. People often go to the sea in summer. You can lie on the beach – usually you lie on towel or on couch and sunbathe or swim. The children can built the sandstone with the spade and bucket. On beach there are public showers, the beach huts and some shops. The harbour separate from the sea piers. The lifeguard can rescue the swimmers.

You can travel to the mountains – usually to the Alps – to the France, Italy, Germany Austria or Switzerland. But you can go to the Czech mountains too. The most famous villages in mountains are Boží Dar, Špindlerův Mlýn or Železná Ruda. You can do many sports there – skiing, snowboarding or throwing with snowballs, children can coast.

When you travel to the mountains in summer you can hitch-hiking or cycling or watch wild life. You climb to the hill, there is a nice view and then you go to the valley and again to the hill.

Travelling without any travel agency is better, it is cheaper and non-commercial, you haven´t any incumbencies and you have enough time. I can prepare the whole trip myself or with my friends.

Very interesting way how to spend holidays is camping. You sleep in a camp in a tent and in the the sleeping-bag. You can travel through the whole republic.

The other very popular type of spending holidays is holiday brigade. This is popular especially between students, because it is known that every student is poor. This holiday I’m going to work in some factory for one or two months.

Many people in Czech Republic have a cottage and they spend there all the holidays and weekends. They often repair there something or work in the garden.

There are some people who enjoy some light physical activity or sports. They might enjoy swimming, fishing, or hiking in the woods. They want extreme physical activity like water skiing, mountain climbing, or white-water river rafting.

My last holidays in summer were very good. I was for 7 days at my friend´s cottage, then I was about week in Italy at the sea and the about 10 days in Sázava in a small bungalow. When I was young, I was usually in the children camp in South Bohemia.