Pete was awake first at 5.30pm in our backyard campground
for the night. There had been no rain
but clouds all night which meant in tent language, a dry flysheet! Plus we still had two cans of beer leftover
from last night which all added up to a great start to the day (not that we had
the cans of beer for breakfast I might add!).
Although cloudy, they never looked threatening, unlike the previous
couple of days and we were soon on our way into Kromeriz town to have our
breakfast and upload the blog with the free wifi in the town square.
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| Kromeriz town square after the party - cleaned up already |
That was all done by 8.15am and we hit the road to Olomouc
on bike trail number 47. We had a lovely
flat ride on mostly smooth roads all morning and by lunchtime we’d done
43kms.
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| On the road this morning |
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| Flowers are everywhere |
We thought we deserved a bit of a
break so after a quick lunch in the park, it was coffee and biscuit time at
McDonalds while we charged the computer and got the wages done. We also used their wifi to check our
directions. We tried using Google to
search out campgrounds in the vicinity but for some reason Google wouldn’t
work. Out of Maccas and into a
supermarket to get tea sorted as we don’t know where we’ll be.
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| Olomouc Town Square |
Back into town
to take more photos, but first a visit to Information, where a nice lady
explained to Ju that they had just opened a new campsite in town. That was good
news so we revised our plans and thought we would cycle out to the campground,
get some washing done and then head back into town to take a good look
around. But we kept getting distracted
at every turn.
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| Town Hall and Info Centre |
Olomouc is a beautiful
town and has grasped it’s tourist potential.
Lots of beautiful old buildings, a couple of stunning churches and a
magnificent cloister. Add to this two
very modern shopping centres and free wifi nearly everywhere and all you would
need to complete this is free, clean toilets.
This is definitely a place I would recommend to any other tourist
however. For us it has been a lovely
surprise as the only reason we chose to come here was because it was on the way
to Prague.
It is truly amazing the history you encounter in every village
or town. Those who have been before us a thousand years ago and their efforts
still remain, if not in completed form then with additions added a few hundred
years later. A lot of the people working on these structures would never have
seen the finished product and definitely never thought that hundreds of years
on, others would have been lauding their praises on the quality of workmanship
and beauty. It’s what makes Julia and I want to keep coming back. We’ll only
see a minute amount in our lifetime, but we’ll enjoy every moment of it.
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| Another magnificent cloister - either they had a lot of clergy back in the day, or they sure liked a whole lot of room! |
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| The churches and cloisters are truly magnificent - so guess who had all the money? |
Eventually about 4.30pm, we went to search of our
campground, which as it happened, was pretty cruisy. To say it was new was an
understatement, full, it certainly was not, in fact we were the only guests.
However, there were about fifty people, including kids, here for some get
together, all drinking at the compulsory bar that goes with every site. Pony
rides were also on the go and after we’d checked in and showered, we even had a
couple of little ones come over to investigate the foreign tourists. As I type
this, the storm clouds are building, which is why we pitched next to an open
shed, which, if the need arises, could act as a shelter for us later. Don’t
know how long the gathering will last, but hey, remember its school and work in
the morning, so let’s move this thing along shall we? We’d also like a bit of peace and quiet!
While we were cooking tea, a couple of little girls came
over to stare in our tent. Not wanting
to appear rude we said “hello”. One
little girl ran off and another one came over to look shyly at us – she must
have been about eight. We said “hello”
and she said “hi”. We thought she must
understand a bit of English because she said Hi so we said “Sorry, but we only
speak English” and she replied in an American accent, “Well so do I”. So we introduced ourselves and it turns out
Sophie lives in Florida with her Czech parents and they had brought her back
for a holiday. She was a little
sweetheart and we had a short chat with her.
After a delicious meal, we settled ourselves in for the
night. Made a coffee and loaded the
photos then used the camp wifi to upload the blog.
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