Day three (September 15, Slavonice-Tábor, 80 km)

We left later than usual due to 3 telcos I thougt I needed to do in the morning. Slavonice’s main square was almost as empty as in the evening before, but in full daylight now.

After having left the village, the overall feeling remained pretty stable during the whole day:

Hills, Forests, Meadows, Lakes

There are - lots of - hills in Bohemia so that cycling conditions are rather varied. Many of these hills have enchanted forests on them, covered with moss.

Outside the forests you see meadows just like in a WindowsXP wallaper.

sometimes in combination: meadow and forest

And there are many many lakes

also sometimes in combination with forests or meadows or both

Nostalgia

The landscape sometimes reminded me of films of Andrei Tarkovsky. And Nostalgia was a goodd motto today:

For lunch, we ended up here:

This is the restaurant within (some kind of) camping site that looked completly abandandoned despite the beautiful weather and the lake and the forest:

After having dared to open the door, I found two young men inside, playing a computer action game on their laptops (decent WiFi was available!), however, slowly, slowly, willing to serve us the only dish they had: Goulash with Dumplings.

It was not that easy to find a decent hotel room tonight, so we ended up in a “Seminar hotel” outside Tábor and had dinner here. The hotel is straight from the 70ies with someone owning it now trying to maximise profit (30 crowns for ketchup to a main disk that costs 320 crowns) and to minimise costs. But in what a beautiful environment, again

This is the view from our room.

What else

Very few building activities, very few bikelanes, but very little traffic on the landroads so that biking is easy (apart from the hills). The villages look empty and the shops there have opening hours just like it was in my childhood (9.00-12.00; 14.00-18.00).

I still didn’t manage to find an ATM. And I learned how a decent pedal boat should look like.