Olomouc Travel and Tourism Guide

I met a guy who told me that Olomouc (pronounced Olomonts / Olmutz) was a beer city in a weed country. The reason was that Olomouc comes from Olmutz , which where supposed to mean the some of the raw materials you need from making bear in old german. Moravia was called hana , which also is supposed to mean hemp (weed) in old german.. He was very convincing and I have no reason for not trusting him, unless someone knows the true meaning of those words.For now im just adding pictures. Text woul...

When I was in Czech Republic in November 2007 I made some photos of my hometown...

Out of the nightmare that is Slovakian train travel... and into the Czech Republic. Due to a run-in with a drunkard on a packed full superfast Pendolino train which would have taken me almost straight from Trencin to Olomouc, I ended up jumping off that train as soon as I could (first stop over the border) and settling for the next best thing... a rattling rust bucket of a train which was all but empty. It was a stopping-all-stations sort of thing and hence I took the scenic route to Olomouc ...

A year long road trip driving from Sydney to Southampton in a BMW X5 checking out progress on the Asian Highway Project and visiting 100 world heritage sites along the way