Wednesday 21st
It has been another sizzling hot day. We started off with
a shopping trip to Kaufland and fill up with cheap diesel, then headed off in
to the countryside to find Holasovice.
This was listed as a world heritage site and sounded interesting, nobody told
us it was up steep hills on narrow lanes with no road markings and signs we
could not understand. Emily was no use at all so we reverted to paper map and
Sue’s best map reading. In the 12th and 13th century it
was a homestead and 23 dwellings have been preserved, but all their facades
have been restored and repainted. They
are all set around a village green with a pond and no vehicles can drive around
it, so we parked up and went for a hot wander. It was so interesting, we sat
for ages under a tree with an ice cream and just soaked up the atmosphere (along
with our perspiration!).
Then it was off to find the campsite we had earmarked,
we got lost again, called in to a garage where a man was filling up, used a lot
of sign language and once more played follow-my-leader with him until we were
on the right road. The Czech people are so helpful and we think must be used to
showing folk the way, because otherwise driving can be a nightmare. Camping Chvalsiny is a beautiful,
Dutch-owned site by a lake, with every facility you can think of including a
restaurant and a swimming pool, so we are going to have a couple of unwind days
here, catch up on washing and emails and blogging etc. before starting to head
back towards Holland and the ferry.
Saturday 24th
Thursday 22nd
We did not do much apart from some washing, tidying up,
showers, emails, blogging and chat to an English gent who was on his own. Again
it was very hot, but we had some rain and thunder during the night. Typical
really as we had left our chairs outside!
Friday 23rd
As we were not going very far, only 19 miles to Horni
Plana, we moseyed around quite a bit and left around 10.30. A very scenic drive
a lot through woods and then alongside a lake on a decent road meant that we
arrived soon after 11.00am. We found Autocamp
Jenisov signposted from the road for a change, booked in for a couple of
nights and found a spot under the shade of some trees but overlooking the lake.
It seems to be mostly German caravans here, with lots of quite large folk
wandering around in bathing costumes! We did a bit of cooking in the Remoska as
it was a bit cooler and we had power, so I have now re-filled the freezer with
a few more meals. A lot more vans started arriving in the evening including
some little people and some who appear to know nothing at all about setting up
a caravan, so we are just sitting watching all the action and it is better than
the tv any day. One man near to us in a very large Concorde has moved his van
about 5 times in order to get his satellite dish working, and a Czech family
with a caravan have gone backwards and forwards so many times we can now smell
his clutch!
Saturday 24th
A day for relaxing in the sun, watching all the people
and boats in the lake, showers and a salad dinner. Tomorrow we start off back
in to Germany.
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