Finally after many many planned trips that were cancelled or otherwise aborted--FINALLY! I am going to Karlovy :D Karlovy Vary is an interesting place, kind of taken over by the Russians during Communism and turned into a high end spa resort town for Communist Party elite and largely still is VERY Russian.

Or so I'm told, every time we plan a trip over to Karlovy one of my Czech friends gasps and warns me not to travel into that area "because there are Russians"

"So?" I ask.

"THERE ARE RUSSIANS!!!"

"And what's wrong with Russians?"

"They are .... not Czech?"

Well naturally XD

Although, to be fair this is really my older friends, my younger Czech friends are more like "*shrug* just don't bring back any stupid matryoshka ... and get the big bottle of Becherovka."