Today's hike was fairly simple with no great scenic panoramas and no
ancient ruins. The hike started on the south side of Trebon by the large
fish ponds. We followed the trail along the ponds and out of town, past
the fields of horses and into the woods. We came out of the woods briefly
while we passed thru the town of Branna and then reentered the woods
and fields until we popped out into the town of Kojakovice.
The town of Kojakovice was developing an interesting museum on the
town history in one of their old abandoned schoolhouses. It turns out
that many of the townsfolk had all emigrated to the same area in Ohio
(or was it Iowa?). In fact, Kojakovice and the town in Ohio/Iowa (I've
forgotten the name) had developed a "sister town" relationship.
The museum was documenting the early history of Kojakovice and the journey
of the emigrants to America.
Tom picked us up outside the museum and took us to Cesky Krumlov and
our next hotel, the Pension Vltava. We spent the evening exploring the
town and it's castle/chateau.
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< To the left is the front door to our accomodations, the
Pension Vltava. The lobby was in the gift shop to the left. It
wasn't very impressive from the outside but the large room we
had was very nice. We had a good view out our back windows of
the Vltava River.
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These are 2 shots of the "Hradek", which dates
back to the late 1200's making it the oldest section of the
castle.
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Back behind the chateau was a walkway that lead up to the
gardens. Along the way there was an overlook where you got a
great overall view of the old town of Cesky Krumlov, shown below.
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After looking out over the town we continued back into the
castle garden. There were a few flowers there and this large fountain
shown above. We got a fellow tourist to take the group photo shown
below.
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< Today was Father's Day so Diane went to the local tourist
info center and found out how to make a long distance overseas
phone call back home. All we had to do was buy a reasonably priced
phone card and use the right kind of public phone booth. We found
that the card didn't work in every booth, just certain ones.
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