Last Summer at Marianbad
Last Summer at Marianbad is a classic film. A classic film is always old, usually in black and white, often in a foreign language with sub titles and is usually very boring with an incomprehensible plot. This film meets all these criteria, It is set in the spa town Karlovy Vary (it was part of the Sudentenland and the German name was Marianbad.
The rockchick invited me to go there for the weekend staying at a friend of hers. I jumped at the chance and we caught the train in Prague for the three hour trip. We were met driven to her house and then went out to see the bubbling warm mud springs in a nature reserve. It was tempting to rip off my clothes and roll around naked in the warm and bubbling mud pools but there was no way of cleaning it off afterwards and the temperature was only a few degrees above freezing. It would be much more sensible to have your mud bath in the spa buildings itself. Although the bubbles were largely CO2 I always suspect there will be a high radon content of any gas produced from well below surface level. I should mention that because we were rather higher in the mountains when we arrived there were brief flurries of snow and the temperature was at least 10 C less than in Prague. The town was full of Baroque and Rococo architecture. (I wonder what that is) and Romanesque old churches and a gothic cathedral.
The rockchick invited me to go there for the weekend staying at a friend of hers. I jumped at the chance and we caught the train in Prague for the three hour trip. We were met driven to her house and then went out to see the bubbling warm mud springs in a nature reserve. It was tempting to rip off my clothes and roll around naked in the warm and bubbling mud pools but there was no way of cleaning it off afterwards and the temperature was only a few degrees above freezing. It would be much more sensible to have your mud bath in the spa buildings itself. Although the bubbles were largely CO2 I always suspect there will be a high radon content of any gas produced from well below surface level. I should mention that because we were rather higher in the mountains when we arrived there were brief flurries of snow and the temperature was at least 10 C less than in Prague. The town was full of Baroque and Rococo architecture. (I wonder what that is) and Romanesque old churches and a gothic cathedral.