Trip to Chester, 14.10.

Last Saturday night me and my house mates decided to go for a trip to Chester the next day. Chester is close to Liverpool, takes about 40 mins by train and we heard that its nice place to visit.

I forced the guys that we have to leave the house latest 10 a.m. and because that is so early for them, I promised to do pancakes for breakfast so it motivates them to wake up. ... I did as I promised, though it took me a bit longer to do them so we left half hour later. Probably big mistake, because after buying the tickets at the train station, they announced that due to technical problems on the rail in the one stop before ours, the train will be running wait. OK, no probs, we can wait.... and we were waiting ... and waiting... 30 mins gone and still no train... so we decided to jump into the taxi to get to the city center and there get on the train. And what.. as it's Sunday train goes only every 30 mins and we missed the train by some 5 minutes or so. So we were waiting again...

Finally, at around 12h we left Liverpool and head to Chester. From that time on everything was running on the schedule :)

Chester is the most beautiful town I have seen so far in UK... well, havent seen many places yet. But I liked a lot the old english style buildings, lot of green, the castle... We walked across the city center, almost all around the the city by walking over the city walls, the river had nice surrounding though water could be much cleaner...We visited a museum, cathedral and seen two squirrels playing in the park, passed by horse-race stadium, seen ruins of Roman Amphitheater and wanted to go into the castle too but it was closed due to some technical work in there. And for zoo we didn't have time. So looking forward to go there with Mike and his friends in winter.

Well, just enjoy pics.

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Minulou sobotu večer jsme se se spolubydlícími dohodli, že pojedeme v neděli na výlet do Chesteru. Chester je jen 40 min vlakem od Liverpoolu a prý je to hezké místo na návštěvu.

Abych donutila kluky vstávat brzo, abysme mohli odejít z domu v 10h, slíbila jsem, že jim udělám na snídani palačiny. Taky, že jsem slib dodržela. Bohužel jsem si to smažení ale nějak blbě rozplánovala, takže jsme odešli o půl hodiny později. A to byla asi velka chyba. Po koupi lístků na vlakovém nádraží nám bylo během pěti minut oznámeno, že díky technickému problému na trati v zastávce, ze které měl přijet náš vlak, se vlak opozdí. Neznámo na jak dlouho... Tak jsme čekali... a čekali... a čekali a půlhodiny pryč a vlak nikde. Tak jsme nasedli do taxíka, aby nás zavezl do centra a tam jsme přestoupili na vlak do Chesteru. O pět minut jsme minuli vlak, takže jsme museli čekat další půl hodiny.

No, takže místo očekávaných 10.18 jsme nakonec vyjeli z Liverpoolu až kolem 12h. Ale pak už šlo všechno podle plánu.

Chester je zatím na prvním místě mého seznamu nejkrásnějších měst v UK.... no, zatím jsem jich moc neviděla. Strašně se mi líbily historické, typicky anglické budovy, v celém centru města, spousta zeleně, řeka by teda mohla být čistější... Prošli jsme město křížem krážem, obešli jsme ho skoro celé i po hradbách okolo města, navštívili jsme muzeum, katedrálu a dvě veverky co se tam honily v parku, viděli jsme dostihový stadion, ruiny římského amfiteátru a chtěli jsme jít i do hradu, ale ten byl z technických důvodů zavřený. A na zoo nezbyl čas. Tak se těším, až tam v zimě půjdu s Mikem a jeho kamarády.

No, užijte si fotečky :)

River Dee - on the way from train station to the city center

Gate to the city

My house mates Ganesh (Hong Kong/Nepal) and Tomas (Czech Rep.)

City centerOn the walls around the town

River Dee

Castle from 14th century

Horse racing stadium

secondary school

Norman cathedral from 16th centuryStatue in the cathedral's park

Flashbacks from Afghanistan

I can't sleep today. Dunno why. When I close my eyes the movie like a short shots from Afghanistan is coming on the scene.

I do not know why, but it seems that this country and people sticked to my heart like a 30-second glue. I really miss my time there! Afghanistan is first country I had such an intense experience - religion, living conditions, people.


Flashback are somehow like this

Travel
Dubai airport - people sleeping all over on the carpet floor. Looking quite happy.
Bus from Kabul to Mazar-e Sharif - sleeping Mike, his falling head into side, almost falling from the seat - looking extreemly funny. Two afghan youngsters exchanging simles/laughs with me about this situation.
Taxi driver - very keen on if me and Mike are married and have children.
Mazar-e park and annoying kids - forcing them to believe that Mike and I are husband and wife.

Religion
Islam - endless discussions with W. Safi about arranged marriages and rights to have more than 1 wife.
Funny thing W.Safi's mum said.
Beautiful Blue Mosque in Mazar and hundreds ppl around.
Strong family ties, families of my friends.

Our house
Mici - our lovely cat. So happy to know she is not lost any more. Miss her sleeping with me on my bed.
Morning water pumping from well to get shower ... was quite good exercise and way how to wake up.
Riza - playing all the time the same Turkish song from Tarkan.
Naveed - "Svetla, how is it like to be a women?" :)
Mike's new wake-up tool: me. Though not all the time successful.

Our office
Dust - endless cleaning.
Un-dusting the laptops with extremely noisy car vacuum cleaner, Jamshed's special smile when doing it.
Cleaning ladies from Mediothek.

Food
Amdruddin - smiling and not really understanding what I am saying. "Svetla. More, more?" Ladyfingers!
Quabuli - yummy rice with spinach.
Sabhs chai? Thor chai? Sei chai? ... what was the forth one?
Mike's pasta with mushroom-cheese sauce.

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and more still on the tape. But i shall really go to bed now. Have to wake up early and make pancakes for my house mates for breakfast. I promised. And also need to get ready for a trip to Chester.

Trip to North Wales/ Výlet do severního Walesu (6.10.)

On Saturday I went for a trip to North Wales which was organized by Student Union at LJMU. for exchange students from Liverpool John Moores University and Hope University. There was a full bus of students from China, Japan, Spain, France, few Germans, Russians, one from Basque country and I was the only one from Czech rep.

Trip started at 8 a.m. and first we head towards Llandudno, a Victorian resort on a fine bay between limestone headlands. We had a nice walk along the seacoast and saw a little bit of the city. After that we head to the garden at Bodnant, where we enjoyed nice flowers, trees, river and small waterfall, all in peaceful atmosphere. Then we drove towards Conwy where is amazing castle and town built up in 13th century by king Edward I. We could walk on the medieval walls, have view all over the city, enjoy harbor, walk over the Telford suspension bridge (a marvel of the engineering in 19th century), visit the oldest and the smallest houses in Conwy and explore the town.

One extra thing - in every place we were they had signs both in English and in Welsh. Interesting language... wouldn't be albe to understand any single word :s

All day we had great weather - sunny, no clouds, quite warm for local conditions :) So I really enjoyed. We got back to Liverpool around 7 p.m. I am tired like a small baby. Just gonna put this post on and some pics and got o bed :)

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V sobotu jsem jela na výlet do severního Walesu, který byl organizovaný Studentskou unií pro studenty Liverpool John Moores University a Hope University. Jel nás plný autobus, Číňani, Japonci, Španělé, Francouzi, pár Němců, Rusů, jeden z Baskitska a já jako jediná Češka.

Vyjeli jsme v 8 ráno směre Llandudno, viktoriánského letoviska při hezké zátoce mezi dvěma vápencovými výběžky. Prošli jsme se při pěkném pobřeží, viděli i něco z města. Poté jsme se vydali do zahrady v Bodnantu, kde jsme se pokochali náderhými květy, stromy, zátiším s řekou a užili si mírumilovnou atmosféru. Pak jsme jeli do Conwy, ke je úžadný hrad a město zbudované ve 13. století králem Eduardem I. Procházeli jsme se po hradbách, které jsou téměř okolo celého města, a ze kterých byl dobrý výhled, užili jsme si přístav, prošli se po Telfordově mostě (inženýrský zázrak 19. století), podívali se do nejstaršího a do nejmenšího domku ve městě a také se brouzdali městem.

A jedna extra věcička - na každém místě, které jsme navštívili byly nápisy v angličtině a ve velštině. Opravdu zajímavý jazyk... kterému bych nerozuměla ani jediné slovo... :s

Celý den jsme měli úžasné počasí - slunečno, na obloze ani mráčku, docela teplo na místní podmínky :) takže jsem si to fakt užila. Do Liverpoolu jsme se vrátili kolem 7. No a teď dopíšu tento post, přidám nějaké fotky a jdu spát. Jsem utahaná jak kotě.



Llandudno


Bodnant


Conwy

Famous? ... well, maybe now a little bit :)

Shortly and without any fame, please:

Last week there was published an article about in "Vyskovske noviny" (local papers for the region Vyskov in CZ), in section "Interview of the week". It was mostly about my time in Iceland, Afghanistan and a little about UK where I am now. I did some promo of AIESEC and talked also about PAIWASTOON, though the name couldn't be obviously mentioned :)

If you are interested in reading... well first learn Czech, and then u can see below :D

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Tak jen krátce a bez žádné slávy prosím:

Minulý týden o mě byl vydán článek ve Vyškovských novinách (regionální noviny), v sekci "Rozhovor týdne". Vpodstatě to bylo o mém čase na Islandu, v Afghánistánu a taky trošku o Anglii, kde jsem teď. Samozřejmě jsem trochu zpropagovala AIESEC a mluvila i o tom, co dělá PAIWASTOON, i když jméno firmy nemohlo být ze zřejmých důvodů uvedeno :)

Takže pokud máte zájem si počíst, tak se mrknete zde: