RNDr. Jan Vaněk

"A new Giant's Hut was to be built, which the Interhotels have allowed to be almost destroyed by their inaction. And when a new one was to be built, a meeting was called directly on the Luční bouda and in the vicinity where the Amber Trail to Poland is. I was there with Ing. Svoboda, with whom we argued against the construction of the Giant's Hut, that it should not be built, dismantled and taken away. The then district officials... district communists, literally, were there discussing with us for a while and then one of the fat cats said, 'So, comrade doctor, you've had your say and this is how it's going to be.' He then instructed the then director of the district road administration to start weighing the material from the Luční bouda towards the border. The material was indeed piled there, and after a few dozen cars of material had been piled there, it stopped because it was found that there were no funds to build a new Giant's Hut. That material is still there to this day. Alien material that lies to the east for several dozen metres along the Amber Trail. It's already overgrown, so there's no point in extracting it from here. And this is how the comrades made their ad hoc decisions."

"I didn't have to go through the sparkles, but I eventually joined Pioneer. There was nothing else to do... everyone from the village was there. Take a kid who was out of line in any way. It was enough that my mother took care of the chapel in Řípec and I was sometimes nicknamed the churchman."