Czech Day Trip #4: GANDALF, THE LIZARD & THE DESERTED CHATEAU 🧙‍♂️🦎🏰 🇨🇿 (27.7km) 

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

I always sense that forlorn but beautiful melancholy about the Czech Republic as though it were a castle without its Queen. 🥀 🇨🇿 🇬🇧

Hi..... Teplice rock park , will be a really good trip to show us ....... thanks for those beatifull videos !!!!

Great video! Perfect camera! Nice soothing voice:-) Thank you Paul, I looking forward to your next video :-)

That tipple by the river looked like Radegast, my second favourite beer, rather unusual for the region, I would think.

Another gem of a video from a gem of a man. ❤️

6:00 ish looks more like a reservoir for firemen than a fishpond

i have to say, at least for me, this is it! it is, as we say, "to je tvoje parketa" :-) this format, content and form of these videos are amazing (including nice and fitting music). you should definitely continue and this should be another core type of videos in your yt portfolio. good luck!

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Thanks Paul! Your videos are soothing and calming and relaxing and entertaining. Keep them coming. Czech Rep is beautiful. I have been in Prague in 2017. I hope to visit again and probably visit towns or places outside Prague. Thank you!

Hi Paul, I absolutely love your daytrips videos, so calming, informational and full of enjoyment, sometimes with excellent British point of view comments. I can feel how you enjoy it, being also lover of Czech (not only) countryside walks, pubs, beers, villages, castles, hills and forests (but not fried cheese:) ) . I believe one can spend a lifetime and still not have enough time to see and visit all of them...This is just excellent and so inspirative. Just I hope I will not be meeting groups of Chinese, American and Russian tourists on the green, yellow or red paths near Mšec, Rabyně or Okoř. :) Try Northern Bohemia around Litoměřice, Ústí nad Labem a Labe valley - extraordinary paysage.

Hi Paul, great video, as always! I don't know if it is due to your voice or the background music (which reminds me little bit of Satie's work), but your videos always make me calm and very relaxed, almost therapeutical. Paul, you are very lucky to make those journeys in the time of covid pandemic, it means everywhere is and will be less (if any) people, so you can see and film all the places at their "full beauty". My personal view of the translation "cottage" = "chalupa"... I think (and please, prove me wrong) that "cottage" means in czech both "chalupa" and "chata". In english, there is no word describing chalupa at all... :-( Maybe "summer residence", but it is not 100% correct. Let me explain my view of those two words in czech: 1) chata = smaller, with less furniture and devices, the wood used to build the chata is pretty visible, it usually doesn't provide you all the comfort you have in your flat / apartment / house. The toilet and hot water is optional thing. You can't invite your wide family to celebrate the Christmas to chata... in my opinion... 2) chalupa = bigger, with more furniture and devices, it can be historic building like mill or so, the touch of the history could be pretty visible, but chalupa also can be let's say it rough "family house" or "summer residence", so you have there all the luxury you need. The toilet and hot water is present in chalupa, internet is present, no matter if via cable or WI-FI ... You can usually invite your wide family to celebrate the Christmas at chalupa and you should be able to offer them beds for everyone ... :) More about this: onemovitosti.cz/rozdil-mezi-chatou-a-chalupou/ So everything, what can we see from 2:49 to 2:55 of your video, is CHATA, not chalupa :-) CHALUPA can be seen at 6:24 :-) My question is: Paul, do you consider the czech nature as unique? I mean, I have never been in UK, but I think that there is similar nature with similar beauties as we do have in the Czech republic. [I know, in UK, there is no fried cheese and cold served Pilsner Urquell]

Another interesting video! Thanks Paul we enjoy your videos. Dawie & Marlene from South Africa.

Do you walk by yourself or does your wife walk with you? Seems lonely...