If Ayurveda, then Kerala! Kerala - the southwestern part of India - is considered the cradle of this ancient science of life. Its primary principle is to maintain a balance between mind, body and spirit to achieve good health and well-being. One of the Ayurvedic...

I met one of the symbols of Kathakali for the first time in India in 2022, right after my arrival in Trivandrum, the capital of Kerala. I was almost desperate. No one was waiting for me at the airport, I couldn't connect to the Internet,...

Connoisseurs of Czech castles are certainly familiar with this place, but Ploskovice was absolutely unknown to me. My surprise was great when I stood in front of the facade of this beautiful castle. In the 12th century, Ploskovice fell into the hands of the Johannites,...

Although I grew up in the former Czechoslovakia, I did not have the opportunity to get to know the whole country. Some areas were simply "out of the way" for us – from central Slovakia. So I am always happy when I can get to...

I have already seen some photos of this place before my trip. So I was even more curious about what the biggest bird statue would be like in reality. This work of art is located at Jatayu Earth's Center, which is actually both a tourist...

It is said that the further south you travel in India, the more chilli is in the food and the more rice is served. In Kerala, rice or rice dishes truly were a staple at every meal. And was it spicy? I remember that the...

Hukvaldy is a village in the Moravian-Silesian Region. On its coat of arms, you can find a blue lyre, red battlements and a red fox. While the battlements symbolize the former castle (today its ruins are among the largest in the Czech Republic)... [caption id="attachment_13206"...

Suppose you have ever been to a typical Viennese cafe house. In that case, you may have noticed that in addition to the smell of coffee, a casual atmosphere and newspapers in wooden frames, simple wooden chairs are also typical attributes of the house. Most...

Many consider Sigmund Freud, the founder of a new therapy – psychoanalysis, to have been a Viennese because we know that he lived almost his entire life in Vienna. We also know that in 1933, the Nazis burned his books in Berlin. Freud said: “What...

The address Berggasse 19 in Vienna's 9th district was indeed very well known in the past. It is the place where psychoanalysis was born. Its founder – Sigmund Freud – lived and was seeing his patients in this house. Portrait by...

I enjoy spa towns. As if they do not have the urgency of time, the daily stress must be put aside even before entering the city. You do not have to come here as a patient at all, you can come here just like that...

The Czech word "pustevna" means a lonely place where a hermit devotes himself to solitude, prayer and penance. Indeed, hermits used to live in Pustevny once – until 1874 – in sandstone caves. However, if you come today to Pustevny – a saddle in the...