Hotel Palcat Tabor

... still planning to spend a little time in the touristy area on our way out of town. It's funny because I was pretty sure we'd run into them and sure enough we did. Really given the amount of tourists and the amount of touristy area it's rediculous that we just happend to bike by their table. So they bought us ice cream. Then we had to get going. We thought we were going to get a little further tonight but in the end glad we didn't. We met this ...

... wants to go out....great! Just what I need being dead tired. They also think it is a stupid idea, so we try to open the door with force, calling the police if things do not work. With combined strenghts we can open it, screws flying around! But, I am ' free' again. They feel very sorry for me, my first impression of Blatna being this lock-up, so offer me to stay at their house! That night I sleep in a bed, after spending a Czech night together. Funny how ...

... station and began to play cards until our train began to run again. Around a half hour into the strike our train left back towards Plzen and we were effectively left stranded in Veseli nad Luznici. We waited, and then waited some more. We befriended a group of high school students from Plzen who were also left stranged and Johnny wowed them and their teachers with magic tricks. When Johnny refused the teacher's offer of a swig out of his ...

Písek, city of the sand...we found it in our way to Mira's place, and we took the two pics you can see from the oldest Czech Bridge, which was almost completely covered by the floodings in 2002. It is really beautiful, and it is one of our best pictures (Bea took it) to date, what in the other hand it's not so difficult...

... and i could not stop laughing and there was nothing i could do to help her she was stuck between the two beds with her bum in the air i am becoming very familiar with her back tattoo she just had to hurl herself up, our back packs take up the remainder space on the floor some one on the bottom bunked tied their luggage strap to the ladder so it could not be moved and they pretend not to wake when we arrived even though we were particularly ...

... looms way overhead domiating everything. We arrived and were shown to out rooms which are in keeping with everything being as they were. It's like going to an old homestead which has been made into a museum showing you what people used to sleep like. The beds are small and my feet have been hanging wildly over the side. Thankfully they aren't the original mattresses! They are keeping with the European style of having two single mattresses rather ...

... I did not get up to much at all as on my arrival the previous night I had been convinced to go to the pub. Ended up at a place called the Horror Bar which was underground, decorated with skeletons and the like and was staffed by Goths. Still a pretty cool place to hang out. As a result the first days activities were curtailed to a walk around the Old Town and a stroll through the castle and the grounds. The ...

... the summer was shocking!). Of course we had to join in and get them singing...then...out of nowhere Mike says 'Id like to bring onto the stage Jamie and Dave who will tell you a ghost story'...what the hell!?!? At this moment im pretty sure i had a small heart attack. We didn't know this was happening and we had nothing to say. So we did it with Mike in a chain story and made it up as we went along...it wasnt scary but we just made it comedy and the kids were laughin ...

... English and my Austrian is about as good as my Arabic. So it was yet another great night, a nice change to drink with 6 chicks as opposed to 6 blokes. I walked home with a gut full of milky kangaroo drink through the eerie mist of the chilly Krumlov night, envisaging times of yore when galant knights and townsfolk traipsed these same cobblestones with stomachs full of mead. Ahh you could smell the chivalry. An excellent first night in this wonderful medieval haven, and four more to come.

... then went to dinner next door downstairs by the river. The place was crowded. We had to wait a long time - but it was well worth it. I had trout. Bill had pork stuffed with mushrooms and onions - plus beer all for only 12 bucks. YUMMY! We walked around the quaint little town and came back to pack. A big storm is blowing through. The trees outside our window are bending down with the wind and heavy rain. I sorted through our pictures. I finished one memory card - holds almost 500 pictures - Oh Wow!