Czech it out...

It is with a heavy heart that I blog today. Due to the siesta of Italian afternoons, we did not get to see the Jesus with a doodle. Exactly what happened last time! And to make it worse, this foreign keyboard just somehow deleted the post I had spent 25 minutes writing, and so now I am starting again.

It has been a long journey from Venice. We left our hotel at 8,30 am, taking a water bus and then a bus out to Treviso airport. We flew SkyEurope, and aside from a little bit of turbulence and a very surl flight attendant, arrived happy in Prague. We experienced the notorious rudeness of Prague information desk workers and finally caught a shuttle bus into the centre. We made our way to the bus terminal, and discovered we would have to wait four hours for the bus.. We found the metro station, bought tickets, and made it to the overland rail station, bought tickets and got on the train, all off our own steam. I was very proud of us at this point.. we were using a new currency, a language that neither of us had a hope of deciphering, and we were safely on our way.

On the train, we had Buttercup and Bill (my new squirrely friend( with us. The conductor gave us a warm smile on seeing them, and we knew we would be fine. We made our way on the adventurous 4,5 hour train journey and finally we were in the fairy-tale-like Česky Krumlov.

We found a great vegetarian place that was just like Vegie Bar in Brunswick street. And the beer they served .. yes.. half a litre thereof.. was called Bernard. Bernard steins. Bernard Glasses. Bernard Umbrellas. It was nice to have a beer with Bernard...

We awoke to rain yesterday, which limited our options, but we went up to the castle. I climbed the tower and had an amazing view over the village. And saw the bears in the moat! We spent alot of time wandering, and sampling some of the local food, including some kind of strange cylindrical pastry rolled in cinnamon sugar.. a world of goodness!

It's really beautiful here, and I am sad to say goodbye, but am equally excited about heading back to Prague this afternoon. And tomorrow night we fly out to Amsterdam!

I have loved getting messages from people, even though I can't always work out who is 'anonymous'!! Please leave messages for me, as it's a really good connection to what's happening at home..

Much love...
Tanya