Today it was up by 6am, shower and bags all packed and ready to go. Breakfast at 7am. At 8am we left the hotel and traipsed through the city with luggage behind us to meet up with our bus and driver. Due to road work being done on the street our hotel was located on, the bus could not pick us up in front of the hotel. Our driver, or "coach pilot" as I like to say, is Bojan. A Slovene, who was in the former Yugoslavian Army....a very interesting gentleman!
Bojan...coach pilot extraordinaire!
We were all on time and loaded our luggage and were heading out of Prague by 8:20am. This was our last look at Beautiful Praha!
Prague Castle Quarter
Now we are on our way to Eastern Czech Republic to an area of the country called Moravia. We will be staying in a small town in the mountains tonight!
This morning started a long bus day, but at noon we stopped in a small town in Moravia called Olomouc for 2 hours. This was for lunch and to have a look around. CL and I had lunch at a little outdoor pizza place right on the main square called Cafe Caesar. We split a large proscuitto pizza and salad. Again, we had a really nice meal in a pretty setting.
The picture to the right is me sitting at Cafe Caesar in Olomouc, Czech Republic. As you can see the weather was not perfect, there were cloudy skies. But I will take no humidity, pleasantly cool temperatures and no rain (but cloudy) over pouring down torential rain any day!
Olomouc is a pretty town and not many American tourists stop there. It is a university town and as we were waiting for everyone in our group to gather in the square to leave, 3 American students approached and asked if we were from the U.S. Turns out they've been there a couple weeks and are study abroad students and they were happy to hear Americans speaking English!
As for the town, Ben was right, it was a "Back Door Experience".
After lunch it was back on the bus for our afternoon ride to our Czech countryside hotel. We stayed in a little "blip" of a place called Trojanovice at the Hotel UKociana.
After we arrived at the hotel we walked about 30 minutes to the ski lift at the base of the mountain and went up the mountain to the restaurant we had dinner at. Before dinner we had about 45 minutes to walk/hike a couple trails in the mountains. It was beautiful up there.
Dinner was another major "food fest". We had cabbage soup, spaetzel, goulash, and dumplings, chicken and potatoes, fried cheese (see I told you, they LOVE their fried cheese!) and as a surprise Ben put on his Czech country sheep herder act and poured us all shots of a plum liquour that I can't remember the name of.
After dinner we took our bus back to the hotel for a traditional Czech dancing and singing performance. It was cute, but lasted an hour which felt like 3!
Tomorrow it is onward to Poland!
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