My last full day in Karlovy Vary stared early with a quick breakfast and
an 8:00am Sub aqual massage followed almost immediately by a Twiggy massage. Hana came up with a new formula to slather on me and this time it was green and smelled a little like dirt. She painted me with it and then wrapped me up in cellophane and blankets and I stewed once again for a half hour. She had put rosemary oil on me prior to the green goo so I kind of felt like a roasting chicken wrapped up in dirt and placed in an oven. This time however the mixture had a warming agent so instead of being cold for a half hour I was nice and toasty warm. 
I said goodbye to Han and will absolutely miss her although the painful massages I guess I am very happy to have done with.
I had time for a bit of a walk which was perfect. It is an overcast day but I am happy to have any time this last day just to walk around and enjoy the town.
I stopped off at fountain number 1C for a little extra water cure since it was my last day and to my amazement there were a group of a 50 Italian teenagers and 10 teachers here on a class trip. I am sure they were visiting Prague and just 
came her for the day but I heard them speaking Italian and could not help but listen. I think I picked up a bit more of the language than I thought during my month there and understood one teacher tell the other one after tasting the water from fountain 1C that it was not as bad as she thought it would be. She thought it would taste like bad eggs but just very salty. I am sure this woman had been to a sulfur spring before and that is where the bad egg taste comes from. The kids all tried the water as well making cups with their hands and it was so funny to see them all cringe at the taste. It was also nice to hear s
ome a language that was familiar for a little while anyway.
I had lunch at noon and then my final Lymph Drainage procedure which turned out to be my favorite because it is so strangely relaxing.
I surprisingly had about an hour to walk around the town before my Hydro Colon Cleansing at 3:30pm followed directly by swimming, Hydrotherapy by Kniepp, another Sub Aqual massage and finally to end the whole treatment series 15 minutes of Ionic Air Inhalation therapy.
It has been an incredible 3 weeks and although I thought in the beginning it would move very slowly it has in fact flown by. I will miss this town extremely but know that it is time to move on. I have met incredible people who have welcomed me into their community and helped me to better understand life in Central Europe. I will always treasure the memories and look forward to continuing my new healthy lifes
tyle in New York with eating lots of vegetables and fruits (non preservative rich food) and a great deal of exercise. Getting healthy and staying that way is a lot of work but I know it is well worth it and certainly having spent these 3 weeks in an intensive program was the perfect way to begin. 
The day ends with dinner and then a walk to fountain number 11 with Ida just to get that one last bit of mineral water cleansing power.
came her for the day but I heard them speaking Italian and could not help but listen. I think I picked up a bit more of the language than I thought during my month there and understood one teacher tell the other one after tasting the water from fountain 1C that it was not as bad as she thought it would be. She thought it would taste like bad eggs but just very salty. I am sure this woman had been to a sulfur spring before and that is where the bad egg taste comes from. The kids all tried the water as well making cups with their hands and it was so funny to see them all cringe at the taste. It was also nice to hear s
ome a language that was familiar for a little while anyway.I had lunch at noon and then my final Lymph Drainage procedure which turned out to be my favorite because it is so strangely relaxing.
I surprisingly had about an hour to walk around the town before my Hydro Colon Cleansing at 3:30pm followed directly by swimming, Hydrotherapy by Kniepp, another Sub Aqual massage and finally to end the whole treatment series 15 minutes of Ionic Air Inhalation therapy.
It has been an incredible 3 weeks and although I thought in the beginning it would move very slowly it has in fact flown by. I will miss this town extremely but know that it is time to move on. I have met incredible people who have welcomed me into their community and helped me to better understand life in Central Europe. I will always treasure the memories and look forward to continuing my new healthy lifes
tyle in New York with eating lots of vegetables and fruits (non preservative rich food) and a great deal of exercise. Getting healthy and staying that way is a lot of work but I know it is well worth it and certainly having spent these 3 weeks in an intensive program was the perfect way to begin. 
The day ends with dinner and then a walk to fountain number 11 with Ida just to get that one last bit of mineral water cleansing power.
November 11 – Day XVIIII
What another gorgeous sunny day in Karlovy Vary.
I was up and out for my morning water cure early and then to breakfast before my 8:30am Anti Cellulite massage with Hana. I am going to
miss Hana very much and although a great deal of the massages were painful I can feel the difference in my body.
Hana speaks only a few words of English and since I speak no Czech we have had a very interesting time communicating but yesterday, which I had forgotten to mention when I posted my blog last night, Hana showed me pictures of her two lovely daughters who are in their mid-thirties and her three adorable granddaughters ages 19 to 11. I had asked her before is she had children and pictures are always a go
od way to communicate when words are not easily associable to either of us. I was able yesterday to understand that her oldest daughter was divorced and the man in the wedding picture she was showing me was not so good. I did however learn from that picture that Hana is extremely talented at making lace and actually made her daughter’s exquisite wedding gown. I would have never guessed she had such an incredible talent for something so delicate since she is a very forceful massage therapist and I just didn’t associate those hands to doing something like making lace.
Well today she brought me in some new pictures because she wanted me to see that her daughter is remarried something she could not verbalize yesterday. The wedding pictures were amazi
ng and they had a Medieval themed wedding with the bride and groom and all the guests in period costumes. It was so wonderful and Hana seems to really love her new son-in-law. She called her daughter while I was all wrapped up in my cellophane cocoon stewing in the special anti cellulite concoction that Hana had created and slather all over me before I was wrapped up like a mummy. Her daughter explained in English who the people were in the pictures I was looking at. I am so glad Hana was excited to share all this with me. I think the normal guests who come here do not make much of an attempt to get to know the Czech people and that is too bad because they really are such lovely people who want to share things about their life. The last few pictures she had in the photo album were of her and her boyfriend in Greece two y
ears ago. Hana’s husband passed away 11 years ago and she had tears in her eyes when she was trying to explain that but she did say she was happy now with this new man which I am happy to hear. The last bit of information which surprised me was that before she became a massage therapist she taught children from age 3 to 6 for almost 23 years and her oldest granddaughter now wants to be a teacher as well. Hana said, and I think I understood her well, that she stopped teaching because there were not as many young children for a time in this area of the Czech Republic and only recently has there been an increase in people having children. I am so glad I got to know more about her life. We have spent over 20 hours together in the last three weeks and to not get to know someone on a more personal level is difficult for me. I am so nosey and also I just think life is so much more interesting when you make an effort to understand who a person is and what is important to them.
What another gorgeous sunny day in Karlovy Vary.
I was up and out for my morning water cure early and then to breakfast before my 8:30am Anti Cellulite massage with Hana. I am going to
miss Hana very much and although a great deal of the massages were painful I can feel the difference in my body.Hana speaks only a few words of English and since I speak no Czech we have had a very interesting time communicating but yesterday, which I had forgotten to mention when I posted my blog last night, Hana showed me pictures of her two lovely daughters who are in their mid-thirties and her three adorable granddaughters ages 19 to 11. I had asked her before is she had children and pictures are always a go
od way to communicate when words are not easily associable to either of us. I was able yesterday to understand that her oldest daughter was divorced and the man in the wedding picture she was showing me was not so good. I did however learn from that picture that Hana is extremely talented at making lace and actually made her daughter’s exquisite wedding gown. I would have never guessed she had such an incredible talent for something so delicate since she is a very forceful massage therapist and I just didn’t associate those hands to doing something like making lace.Well today she brought me in some new pictures because she wanted me to see that her daughter is remarried something she could not verbalize yesterday. The wedding pictures were amazi
ng and they had a Medieval themed wedding with the bride and groom and all the guests in period costumes. It was so wonderful and Hana seems to really love her new son-in-law. She called her daughter while I was all wrapped up in my cellophane cocoon stewing in the special anti cellulite concoction that Hana had created and slather all over me before I was wrapped up like a mummy. Her daughter explained in English who the people were in the pictures I was looking at. I am so glad Hana was excited to share all this with me. I think the normal guests who come here do not make much of an attempt to get to know the Czech people and that is too bad because they really are such lovely people who want to share things about their life. The last few pictures she had in the photo album were of her and her boyfriend in Greece two y
ears ago. Hana’s husband passed away 11 years ago and she had tears in her eyes when she was trying to explain that but she did say she was happy now with this new man which I am happy to hear. The last bit of information which surprised me was that before she became a massage therapist she taught children from age 3 to 6 for almost 23 years and her oldest granddaughter now wants to be a teacher as well. Hana said, and I think I understood her well, that she stopped teaching because there were not as many young children for a time in this area of the Czech Republic and only recently has there been an increase in people having children. I am so glad I got to know more about her life. We have spent over 20 hours together in the last three weeks and to not get to know someone on a more personal level is difficult for me. I am so nosey and also I just think life is so much more interesting when you make an effort to understand who a person is and what is important to them. A very busy day ahead with lots more treatments including a Carbon Dioxide Dry Bath, Hydrotherapy by Kniepp, 15 minutes of personal exercise training, inhalation therapy and even a Hydro C
olon cleansing. Amazingly I still have some time for a long walk.
olon cleansing. Amazingly I still have some time for a long walk.I had to say goodbye to Nikola tonight after inhalation therapy. I will miss her and am so glad I had the pleasure of meeting her.
I also had to say goodbye to Jiri at the front desk in my hotel since he is not working tomorrow night. He is adorable
and so sweet and loves to chat and practice his English. He
is going to the theater in a few weeks in Prague to see a 19th Century Italian comedy and he said he’ll email me and give me his thoughts. It also turns out that th
e theater directly across the street from my hotel is doing Long Days Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill in December so I told him all about it and recommend it highly if he would like to see a quintessential American play, an American masterpiece to be exact but I am not sure he’ll go since I told him it is a four hour drama and he kind of cringed at the thought. Either way it is nice that he’ll be keeping in touch he is just so sweet.
Now having said goodbye to Jiri and given him a hug I was sure that was the last I’d seem of him for the evening but I then locked myself out of my room so he had to go get some tools and come up and rescue me. It took a lot more than one could imagine but he did it and all was good until I walked into my room and turned on the lights which flashed and then went dark. I had to make the trek down four flights of stairs again just to have to explain I needed his help onc
e more. In the elevator ride up to the 4th floor he said it must be that I am sad to say goodbye to him that I keep having all these problems. I suppose I am sad to say goodbye to all of the wonderful things about Karlovy Vary but I do swear it really was just an accident with the key and the lights well who knows on that one. My room was once again illuminated and I said goodbye to Jiri one more time.
and so sweet and loves to chat and practice his English. He
is going to the theater in a few weeks in Prague to see a 19th Century Italian comedy and he said he’ll email me and give me his thoughts. It also turns out that th
e theater directly across the street from my hotel is doing Long Days Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill in December so I told him all about it and recommend it highly if he would like to see a quintessential American play, an American masterpiece to be exact but I am not sure he’ll go since I told him it is a four hour drama and he kind of cringed at the thought. Either way it is nice that he’ll be keeping in touch he is just so sweet.Now having said goodbye to Jiri and given him a hug I was sure that was the last I’d seem of him for the evening but I then locked myself out of my room so he had to go get some tools and come up and rescue me. It took a lot more than one could imagine but he did it and all was good until I walked into my room and turned on the lights which flashed and then went dark. I had to make the trek down four flights of stairs again just to have to explain I needed his help onc
e more. In the elevator ride up to the 4th floor he said it must be that I am sad to say goodbye to him that I keep having all these problems. I suppose I am sad to say goodbye to all of the wonderful things about Karlovy Vary but I do swear it really was just an accident with the key and the lights well who knows on that one. My room was once again illuminated and I said goodbye to Jiri one more time. November 10 – Day XVIII
It sta
rted out to be a gorgeous day as the sun rose around 7:00am. I took some pictures from my balcony and of the reflections on the balcony doors.
I quickly got myself ready and down to breakfast because I had an 8:00am Sub Aqual Massage and then a 9:00am Twiggy massage.
I had a few hours off in this morning after the first tow treatments I took a two hour walk around the wooded area behind the Hotel Pupp and by the Richmond hotel in the Beethoven Park. It was the walk I took on my first day here with Melody and each time I go there it still makes such an impression. I found a Japanese rock garden near the
Richmond hotel and a stream at the other end of the road. I also went past the tall wooden towers that Melody and I had observed the first day and wondered what they were for. It turns out they have an open air theater there and do performances in the summer months.I went for my midday water cure and was back in time for my 12:00pm Carbon Dioxide Dry Bath.
After lunch it is a massage, Hydrotherapy by Kneipp and inhalation therapy as well as water exercise and my 15 minute personal fitness training session. Oh what a busy, busy day and there was still time for another hour walk before dinner.
The lovely German woman from Düsseldorf who I met in the inhalation room a few days ago met me on my way into the spa and she had been hoping to see me earlier because she had wanted to take me to afternoon tea at the Grand Hotel Pupp with her and her 7 friends. It was so thoughtful of her to want to take me but I had three more treatments to do and I really must 
focus on that since I have only two days left after today. I have been so fortunate to meet the most gracious and wonderful people here.
focus on that since I have only two days left after today. I have been so fortunate to meet the most gracious and wonderful people here.
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