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Thursday 26th May – Camp Bucek to Praha.                                37.46miles.       (1284.46miles total)

31/5/2016

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​Once again, a slow and enjoyable start to the day: knitting, reading, chi gung (ie, stretches), breakfast.  There were swifts swooping everywhere.
 
I chatted to one of the Dutch campers who had a dog with her that looked like a cross between a border collie and a spaniel but was, in fact, some kind of Dutch pedigree.  She explained that the owner of the campsite was Dutch – and his wife was Czech – hence the large number of Dutch campers – the site was well maintained and advertised widely amongst the Dutch camping fraternity.  The fact that the wife was Czech meant that if anyone needed to, e.g., go to hospital, she would act as a go between and that made it all extra safe.  The woman had a vase full of lily of the valley on a picnic table, which she said she’d picked in the woods. 
I bid her farewell as it was high time to get going to Prague…
 
Have made a little discovery about ‘Komoot’ – the German cycling map site I’ve subscribed to.  If one clicks anywhere on the route – it tells you what it’s like – whether it’s paved, asphalt, loose gravel or a track.  Yesterday I should have been on a track.  Because I thought I was supposed to be on a road, I’d ignored the track.  No wonder I’d gone astray.  Today, I was supposed to be on a track – and I was: proper, grass growing in the middle, never used by a car track.  It was beautiful cycling  - mixed deciduous/pine forests, fields of grass and rolling countryside.  I got my first sight of Prague from the top of a hill – spread out before me (a little like seeing Exeter from Haldon Hill – or maybe not). 
 
I went past a large pond (and went in search of a loo, too – and found one, in a sports complex/restaurant), with a tower next to it, surrounded by trees and a swan family sailing in the middle (I took yet another bad nature picture of them).  The sun was low in the sky and reflecting in the water – irresistible – and yet another awful photograph results. 
 
  When I get into Prague proper – the grand buildings all along the river, with masses of people enjoying the evening sunshine on the River Vitava banks and several bridges spanning the water all in sight – it was majestic.  It was also noisy with sirens, trams and cars rolling over tram tracks, and dusty and smelly and dirty.  Prague is a vast city, a buzzing city with a sense of a seedy underground.  There are lots of beautiful, young people around lending an energy to the night.  The traffic doesn’t seem to diminish, even at midnight.
 
The youth hostel itself is a bit grotty, run down – a small dormitory with 6 other young girls (not old enough to be out of school, surely?!).   One of them, Hayley is in bed when I get there and remains in bed when I leave – I hope she’s OK (though she sounds OK when I say hello).  There is a kitchen where the rest of them are cooking (smells good), so I escape outside to a restaurant and have a beer.  I am shocked that it seems standard to serve a heavy glass tankard with half a glass of froth on top of the beer – I look around and see that it is indeed the case – everyone is served their beer looking the same.    By the time the head disappears it’s only half a glass – still, it’s cold and refreshing and more than enough.  I do a little knitting and people watch before wending my way back to bed. 
 
6 Comments
Susan Hutton
31/5/2016 16:03:22

Terri, I can't believe you've cycled the entire way to Prague!!! Amazing achievement. Your blog continues as entertaining and inspiring as ever. I'm getting the feeling you're not madly keen on Prague - does it come as a shock to the system to be somewhere so populated and commercial and cycling for so long through the countryside? Anyway, keep up the blog - it's beautifully written.

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Terri
1/6/2016 18:31:30

Well -today I cheated! It cost all of £1.50 for me and the bicycle to get to Brno (50miles) and what would have taken me two days took 1 1/2 hours! But I'm all set for Eurovelo 9 to Slovenia now. I'm going to mooch around Brno tomorrow and looking forward to it. It looks a little more laid back than Prague - less hectic. XXX Thanks for the snippets of news :-)

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Jenny Arnold
1/6/2016 18:03:03

I still think you are the bravest person I know. And so is Welly. 👑 Jenny xx

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Terri
1/6/2016 18:32:27

Phsaw! (and Welly snorted too!). XXX

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Mon
1/6/2016 18:32:59

Great progress!! Good for you. I think I stayed in that hostel on the way to Australia . Hope you have seen Charles Bridge and the amazing carved figures. The first time I went to Prague-with the people I'm going to Rome with next week- we went on a guided walk with a very efficient and determined guide called Dagma. None of us has forgotten her. She made us stand on the bridge for ages and we nearly froze into statues ourselves. In the end we had to force her into a coffee bar, where she told us the entire history of the Czech Republic.

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Patricia cullen
1/6/2016 22:35:27

Hi Terri I love your blogs and wonderful pictures I am with you everyday thank you love you lots Mather xx

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