Nymburg-based writer, columnist and expert on the history of the central Polabí region, Jan Řehounek, set out along the Elbe river from Kolín to Mělník to convey to you - the readers - the beauty of this "golden strip of the Czech land". Together with him, we will visit other ancient cities , such as Poděbrady, Nymburk, Lysá nad Labem, Stará Boleslav or Brandýs nad Labem, with extremely valuable monuments, but also with interesting destinies of no less interesting people. We will walk through floodplain forests near Libice nad Cidlinou, past the former Mydlovar castle and along the blind branches of the Elbe with rare flora. Here we can also meet water otters, mergansers and wildebeests. We will remember the oldest history of our state at the former acropolis of the Slavník hillfort in Libya, at the defunct Oldříš castle, at the Drevčice fortress and above all at Stará Boleslav, connected with the murder of St. Wenceslas. In Kolín, Kovanice and Brandýs, we will place stones on old tombstones of Jewish cemeteries, in Čelákovice and Lysá, vampires will emerge from the old burial grounds in front of us. Collected folk tales abound with robber knights, robbers, girls cursed in pine trees, hidden and found treasures, legends and rumors tell about Princess Libuša, St. Vojtěch, Hussite governor Jan Žižek, but also about Count Špork's trousers. But sometimes we also stray a little from the Elbe river to get lost in the mazes and labyrinths, look around from the observation tower in the plain and taste the breads in the village of the same name. ) the trip was worth it.