Heading south west today, no real destination, just winging it.
Commenced our challenges with a detour around a closed bridge causing some extra climbing . Then up out of the valley and into a light fog
Stopped in a small town at the coop supermarket for water and a banana. Shops few and far between, and usually we only top up on water when getting coffee.
2 water and 2 banana 36 crowns, about 2 dollars
Coffee at ... where we cut loose and had 2 coffees whilst mark tried booking.com for accomodation. Sunday night sorted, but still nothing for today.
Head for cesky Budejovice but there the inn is full.
Head for cesky Budejovice but there the inn is full.
We didn't want to go on as we already had 70 kms done and the next 30 involved climbing, which we had read on a blog was not fun. Also only leaves 30kms for sunday
So, headed out of town. Serendipitously we stopped on the roadside and mark discovered recently released accommodation in cesky krumlov. Thank you god.
Hills not as bad as billed, but tired all the same. 105kms on the legs and 1100 meters of climb for the day. Bit tired now. But fitness level surprising and gratifying.
Find, accomodation, beers and dinner.
Wow what a spectacular town with the river curling around itself and throughout the town.
Weiner schnitzel for me, mexican chicken for Herr Gedye
DP so full of performance enhancing drugs he was a machine on the mountains. Claims they were for his sore foot. Yeah yeah yeah Lance.
ReplyDeleteWitnessed a near tragedy on the river when a stupid Asian family took their baby, without life jacket, white water rafting. All panicked when the raft was caught in eddies and couldn't move and the poor baby was thrust into a concrete wall by the father trying to place it in " safety " , which was a concrete wall in the gushing river by itself. Fire Department arrived and rescued father and child. Have photos but can't post with my slave status.
Only one day left in Czech Republic so normality returned to beer diet; 2 before dinner for medicinal purposes and 1 with meal while we wean ourselves off the best beer in the world.