As a Czech, I have to agree that kofola tastes really better than cola and was originally created under the previous regime as an alternative to cola, but it is still slightly different because the base called KOFO is always mixed for the whole season, so Kofola may have slight variations in taste according to the nature of the seasonal weather and fruit ripening. The syrup consists of 14 herbal and fruit substances (apples, cherries, currants,…). even licorice is the content of kofola. 😉
That is so interesting! Thanks so much for taking the time to tell us more about kofola. We really enjoyed it and miss drinking it since we left Czech 🍻
@@Pidalin NOT true! there is a bus or train connection to every village itself - given by the law! ( if there is any settlement far away of the village itself in the middle of nowhere deep in the mountines up on the hill far from the main village - it can be a walk - but there is a public transportation to every village by the law = there is bus stop in every village on the main road - or train station by the village)
@@johnnygomez7063 Public transport connections are ordered by region, if region or city doesn't order it from some transport company, then there is no connection. Show me how you get for example from Malovidy (near to Rataje nad Sázavou), the nearest train stop is not so far, but it's not walkable, there is old forest path which is not usefull today, so other option is walk 5 km to Rataje and there is many of such exmaples. You can have train or bus stop only 1.5 km away, but sometimes there is no way how to get there. There is one another stop (Rataje - Iváň, but you have to change train in Rataje, it goes nowhere, so walk directly to Rataje is still better, so you have train or bus stops not so far, but very often it's useless.
@@Pidalin haha its funny - I was in this village called Malovidy today due to my project - right now got back home. This village is a shithole in the middle of nowhere in the end of the road deep in the river valley with few houses - when going down by my car I met a road cleaning car and and an older guy going from the bus station up on the edge of the valley down to the village. OK its more less about 300m (NOT 5 Km) to the nearest bus stop - but the road down the valey is in the forest and it was clearly visible that the trees are falling down accros the road very often - its dangerous even for the cars (the road itself is in a pretty good condition) ... Many non important shitholes /=villages/ like this one are served by public transport like this - from the neerest crossroad bus stop in walkable distance to the tini little shithole village.
Your trip to the land of my roots is AWESOME! I also enjoy with you for the beauties discovered during your walk through Central Europe! GREAT VIDEO, SUPER👍
My favourite moment here was when you arrived in the Czech countryside. The expression on Sarah's face looks like.... let's take on this countrylife... Love it. Well done. The new camera is great!!!
Haha thanks Riaan! We were pumped to see a different side of Czech and we are excited to share that as well 😁 we are looooving our new camera 😍 it's a dream to film with and makes editing easier for Marek 🙌🏼 it's a win win! 🥳
Wohoo! You took us with you! Just love it when you photoshoot the ground, as it gives us a real life experience. After all, it's just where we'd be looking if we were walking with you! Also I love the sneak peeks of the surrounding local people. Thanks so much for an enjoyable show.
The joys of backpacking. I love the public transport option, sure it takes longer but you get to live a little like a local in the country. And bonus! Pretty cheap. Brrr not liking the cold, but means I have summer here in Australia. Lol Enjoy!
We couldn't agree more 😄 we enjoy taking every opportunity to experience life as a local 🙌🏼 we are not happy about the cold weather creeping in 😅 enjoy your warm weather in Australia! 🌞 Wish we could too 😉
Traveling this way makes you more free. You do not have to worry where you park, fuel, fees, rules. And you can end fieldtrip in different place than you started. Like we can tke train with bikes, travel 50km, take different train back. If you take car you have the same 25km route twice.
Thanks for sharing your experience. It's comforting to know that public transport is good in the Czech Rep for our upcoming trip. I was hoping to give you a big thumbs up but I can only find a regular size thumb (in my personal perception of thumb sizes). Could you please give me instructions on how to find the big one? Cheers. :)
@@SarahandMarek Well, in fact, whole transport hub is under extensive rebuilt now (basically, they demolish the bus and train station and build new better design complex). This is the reason, why there wasn´t any significant maintain here... th-cam.com/video/lV1B25N7NA0/w-d-xo.html
🤣 we travelled full time for a year and a half so we needed clothes for all seasons but we were also rookies when we first set off and definitely over packed 😅
If it were me, I would pick train only. More comfortable, you do not get carsick there, even if you read a book, more legspace, more luggage space, small table to eat.
Please dont use google maps for public transport outside of Prague. It kinda works, but it always finds absolutely terrible connections. Youve probably wasted some hours there. Use something like IDOS instead.
Trust us when we say that we do not trust Google maps at all but we were actually really pleasantly surprised by how well the travel day went 😮 sure it may have taken quite a bit longer than other means but that had to top the list as one of our smoothest travel days ever and the fact that we manage to do it all on Google Maps, we were absolutely blown away 🥳 but yes, we will definitely look into your suggestion for next time, Google maps remains a last resort for us 😆
Looking forward to another vide - just wonder why the hell you traveled to this sleepy hollow in the middle of nowhere on the Czech - Slovak border in the hills - any small family cow/sheep/goat farm with organic milk products???? Greatings from native Prague boy. :-D
Couldn't help but chuckle at your comment 😂 what brought us to this little village in particular was the family friends we were visiting. We honestly loved how small and quirky it was 😁 thanks so much for watching our video and we hope you keep enjoying our other videos too 😄🙌🏼
Don't worry about this! It's not easy for a non-Czech speaker to correctly pronounce words with so many consonants, one after the other! I think you don't want from them to pronounce STRC PRST SKRZ KRK or even ZMRZLINA correctly...😛
@@LaszloVondracsek I make mistakes speaking Czech, but your examples are easy for a Scotsman. My problem is that people don't even try. I'm not worried about anything, don't know why you think I am
@@DavidFraser007 As an ethnic Czech, but living in a nearby country where a Latin language is spoken, I realize how difficult it's to pronounce in Czech (or even Slovak) if your native language is not a Slavic-one. These two obviously do not speak a Latin language, but the difficulty is the same. By the way, even the Germans call the city Brünn....As for "don't worry", yes, I probably should have said "don't notice this!", I think that would have been more correct!
@@LaszloVondracsek I have a friend in Prague, you both have the same name, he's an actor. If you ever visit Prague, jump on a tram, you will hear his voice!
@@DavidFraser007 Vondracek is a fairly common Czech name, but my name is written with Hungarian spelling (I am half Hungarian, half Czech, but from Romania) . As for the actor you are talking about, he's surely Jan Vondracek, the new voice of the announcements in the Prague's trams. Yes, in the summer probably, when I'll go to visit my relatives in Prague, I will definitely hear his voice in the trams. Greetings from Bucharest!
What I like about Czech public transportation is that when you buy train ticket, they give you ticket and change back literally on that ticket in like 3 seconds, compare that to other countries where they have all trains with mandatory seat reservation and ticket is connected to specific train, you are buying ticket 10 minutes then, like in Poland for example. But be careful about bus drivers, they cheat you very often, they can give you kid ticket (half price) and put money to his pocket or something like that, that happened to me many times. BTW, there can be pretty cold in Zlín even in summer, I almost died by cold there too, it was in july early at morning, I had only T-shirt and as a Praguer, I really didn't expect there can be such cold in july. :-D
I always prefer train even when it's more expensive and takes more time because you have toilet there and more space for baggage and also you don't have to watch highway from window whole time.
Thanks so much for the recommendation 😄 Unfortunately we are already in our next country so we won't be able to visit Zlin this time but maybe sometime in the future 😊
As a Czech, I have to agree that kofola tastes really better than cola and was originally created under the previous regime as an alternative to cola, but it is still slightly different because the base called KOFO is always mixed for the whole season, so Kofola may have slight variations in taste according to the nature of the seasonal weather and fruit ripening. The syrup consists of 14 herbal and fruit substances (apples, cherries, currants,…). even licorice is the content of kofola. 😉
That is so interesting! Thanks so much for taking the time to tell us more about kofola. We really enjoyed it and miss drinking it since we left Czech 🍻
Mám ráda Kofolu velmi moc. Je dobrý napoj. Díky za video....thanks for the video!
Yep... for some reason Mondays is the day off for most museums
Really important to remember 🤭
Czech transport is awesome, such a smooth journey for you two 🥳🥳 compared to your previous experiences 🙃🙃
It really is!! 🤩 Haha you got that right! 😂💛
This is czech republic - you get to any village by public transport - there must be ,by the law, a public transport connection to any settled place
That is so interesting and also amazing! Go Czech Republic! 🙌🏼😄🇨🇿
There are villages where you still have to walk 5 km to train or bus. :-)
@@Pidalin NOT true! there is a bus or train connection to every village itself - given by the law! ( if there is any settlement far away of the village itself in the middle of nowhere deep in the mountines up on the hill far from the main village - it can be a walk - but there is a public transportation to every village by the law = there is bus stop in every village on the main road - or train station by the village)
@@johnnygomez7063 Public transport connections are ordered by region, if region or city doesn't order it from some transport company, then there is no connection. Show me how you get for example from Malovidy (near to Rataje nad Sázavou), the nearest train stop is not so far, but it's not walkable, there is old forest path which is not usefull today, so other option is walk 5 km to Rataje and there is many of such exmaples. You can have train or bus stop only 1.5 km away, but sometimes there is no way how to get there. There is one another stop (Rataje - Iváň, but you have to change train in Rataje, it goes nowhere, so walk directly to Rataje is still better, so you have train or bus stops not so far, but very often it's useless.
@@Pidalin haha its funny - I was in this village called Malovidy today due to my project - right now got back home. This village is a shithole in the middle of nowhere in the end of the road deep in the river valley with few houses - when going down by my car I met a road cleaning car and and an older guy going from the bus station up on the edge of the valley down to the village. OK its more less about 300m (NOT 5 Km) to the nearest bus stop - but the road down the valey is in the forest and it was clearly visible that the trees are falling down accros the road very often - its dangerous even for the cars (the road itself is in a pretty good condition) ... Many non important shitholes /=villages/ like this one are served by public transport like this - from the neerest crossroad bus stop in walkable distance to the tini little shithole village.
Your trip to the land of my roots is AWESOME! I also enjoy with you for the beauties discovered during your walk through Central Europe! GREAT VIDEO, SUPER👍
My favourite moment here was when you arrived in the Czech countryside. The expression on Sarah's face looks like.... let's take on this countrylife...
Love it. Well done.
The new camera is great!!!
Haha thanks Riaan! We were pumped to see a different side of Czech and we are excited to share that as well 😁 we are looooving our new camera 😍 it's a dream to film with and makes editing easier for Marek 🙌🏼 it's a win win! 🥳
Wohoo! You took us with you! Just love it when you photoshoot the ground, as it gives us a real life experience. After all, it's just where we'd be looking if we were walking with you! Also I love the sneak peeks of the surrounding local people. Thanks so much for an enjoyable show.
So glad you enjoyed it 😁 it is such a pleasure to share our journey ☺️
Today we are going to travel to another czech big city named Breno
We hope you enjoy Breno! We also visited but for a very short time. From what we saw it's a lovely city 😊
@@SarahandMarek Breno? :D i think it's Brno
Glad you enjoyed Prague and Brno... always welcome.. Love ZA for sure
Thank you so much 😄🙌🏼 we had a great time exploring your country! 🇨🇿
Oy I recognised that train station! Looking forward to the next one!
Love it! 😁 You'll recognise everything in the next one 😉
The joys of backpacking. I love the public transport option, sure it takes longer but you get to live a little like a local in the country. And bonus! Pretty cheap. Brrr not liking the cold, but means I have summer here in Australia. Lol Enjoy!
We couldn't agree more 😄 we enjoy taking every opportunity to experience life as a local 🙌🏼 we are not happy about the cold weather creeping in 😅 enjoy your warm weather in Australia! 🌞 Wish we could too 😉
Excellent thought. Travelling isn't only about the highlights of a region...
Traveling this way makes you more free. You do not have to worry where you park, fuel, fees, rules. And you can end fieldtrip in different place than you started. Like we can tke train with bikes, travel 50km, take different train back. If you take car you have the same 25km route twice.
I really enjoyed that episode Guys. Well done.
Yay! We're so happy to hear that! Thank you 🤩
Great job as usual Sarah and Marek 🙏
Thanks so much Courts ☺️💛
Thanks for sharing your experience. It's comforting to know that public transport is good in the Czech Rep for our upcoming trip.
I was hoping to give you a big thumbs up but I can only find a regular size thumb (in my personal perception of thumb sizes). Could you please give me instructions on how to find the big one? Cheers. :)
That was good. Well done😍😍
Thank you so much 🤩
Vsetín bus station a n d railway station - just before this year general modernisation ...
So they have been modernized? 😄
@@SarahandMarek the modernisation has already started: th-cam.com/video/lV1B25N7NA0/w-d-xo.html
@@SarahandMarek Well, in fact, whole transport hub is under extensive rebuilt now (basically, they demolish the bus and train station and build new better design complex). This is the reason, why there wasn´t any significant maintain here... th-cam.com/video/lV1B25N7NA0/w-d-xo.html
@@SarahandMarek Now- October 2022, the old station is demolished and the new one is under construction. 🙂
Nice video! Going to Prague the 2nd of January!
Thanks so much 😄 That's awesome! Hope you have an amazing time there 🙌🏼😁
@@SarahandMarek Thanks so much Guys!
I thought backpackers are light travellers. But your stuff can fit 2 big suitcases each already!
🤣 we travelled full time for a year and a half so we needed clothes for all seasons but we were also rookies when we first set off and definitely over packed 😅
You guys are getting so good at this 🚃🚌
Thanks so much Cheryl! 😁 Honestly, the public transport works so well it would be entirely our fault if anything went wrong that day 😅
If it were me, I would pick train only. More comfortable, you do not get carsick there, even if you read a book, more legspace, more luggage space, small table to eat.
Very true! Train rides are the best! 🤩🚞
Please dont use google maps for public transport outside of Prague. It kinda works, but it always finds absolutely terrible connections. Youve probably wasted some hours there. Use something like IDOS instead.
Trust us when we say that we do not trust Google maps at all but we were actually really pleasantly surprised by how well the travel day went 😮 sure it may have taken quite a bit longer than other means but that had to top the list as one of our smoothest travel days ever and the fact that we manage to do it all on Google Maps, we were absolutely blown away 🥳 but yes, we will definitely look into your suggestion for next time, Google maps remains a last resort for us 😆
To be honest, for a video aimed on public transport I would expect you show a lot more of the buses/trains interiors.
True. We'll keep that in mind for our next video about public transport. Thanks so much for the feedback 🙂
I would not consider Kofola as cola drink, but rather a root beer.
Looking forward to another vide - just wonder why the hell you traveled to this sleepy hollow in the middle of nowhere on the Czech - Slovak border in the hills - any small family cow/sheep/goat farm with organic milk products????
Greatings from native Prague boy. :-D
Why not? I live in a flat in Prague and for some weekends I go to Wallachia... nature, friends, sheeps and slivovice...
Couldn't help but chuckle at your comment 😂 what brought us to this little village in particular was the family friends we were visiting. We honestly loved how small and quirky it was 😁 thanks so much for watching our video and we hope you keep enjoying our other videos too 😄🙌🏼
We loved all of those things about the Czech countryside 😍
You guys are so brave. 👍 I would get sooo lost every single time! 🤪 often lose myself in the UK! 😂
Ah no Rella 😂 that's so funny! Thank you so much ☺️ Marek is our main navigator and he does such a great job every time 😁
I live near Brno. Not heard anybody call it Breno or Broono yet. I'll keep my ears open.
Don't worry about this! It's not easy for a non-Czech speaker to correctly pronounce words with so many consonants, one after the other! I think you don't want from them to pronounce STRC PRST SKRZ KRK or even ZMRZLINA correctly...😛
@@LaszloVondracsek I make mistakes speaking Czech, but your examples are easy for a Scotsman. My problem is that people don't even try. I'm not worried about anything, don't know why you think I am
@@DavidFraser007 As an ethnic Czech, but living in a nearby country where a Latin language is spoken, I realize how difficult it's to pronounce in Czech (or even Slovak) if your native language is not a Slavic-one. These two obviously do not speak a Latin language, but the difficulty is the same. By the way, even the Germans call the city Brünn....As for "don't worry", yes, I probably should have said "don't notice this!", I think that would have been more correct!
@@LaszloVondracsek I have a friend in Prague, you both have the same name, he's an actor. If you ever visit Prague, jump on a tram, you will hear his voice!
@@DavidFraser007 Vondracek is a fairly common Czech name, but my name is written with Hungarian spelling (I am half Hungarian, half Czech, but from Romania) . As for the actor you are talking about, he's surely Jan Vondracek, the new voice of the announcements in the Prague's trams. Yes, in the summer probably, when I'll go to visit my relatives in Prague, I will definitely hear his voice in the trams. Greetings from Bucharest!
Woof! Woof!!🐶
Hi 😄👋🏼
What I like about Czech public transportation is that when you buy train ticket, they give you ticket and change back literally on that ticket in like 3 seconds, compare that to other countries where they have all trains with mandatory seat reservation and ticket is connected to specific train, you are buying ticket 10 minutes then, like in Poland for example. But be careful about bus drivers, they cheat you very often, they can give you kid ticket (half price) and put money to his pocket or something like that, that happened to me many times.
BTW, there can be pretty cold in Zlín even in summer, I almost died by cold there too, it was in july early at morning, I had only T-shirt and as a Praguer, I really didn't expect there can be such cold in july. :-D
I Am Here!!!
Riaan!! 😁
3:02 Ten Pitomio vzadu...
Could have taken a train the whole way, much more comfortable... :)
No way!? Really? 😅
I always prefer train even when it's more expensive and takes more time because you have toilet there and more space for baggage and also you don't have to watch highway from window whole time.
Ahoj
Ahoj Petra! 😄
Obviously better than Georgian "marshutkas" 😁
The different countries, and their transport.... I find it all so fascinating!
Haha but definitely not as "exciting" 😆 thank you for watching! 😁❤
Minibuses and demand transport is now the most modern trend in Czech public transport in the countryside.
Russia specnaz laugh
You should go to see Zlín. The town is very special even in word measures. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zl%C3%ADn
Thanks so much for the recommendation 😄 Unfortunately we are already in our next country so we won't be able to visit Zlin this time but maybe sometime in the future 😊