Category: Eastern European trips
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Tale of two cities; Goldsboro NC to Kinston NC; Nov 30-Dec 1, 2024
Several of my New Orleans coterie of friends think of “North Carolina” as an exclusively mountain destination. Geography students: the western third of North Carolina is indeed mountains. The middle third of the state is the Piedmont; rolling hilly countryside that includes most of North Carolina’s major cities. The final eastern third of the state,…
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Ten day cycle tour of central Czechia, just the first day ;June 11, 2023
Prague has gotten a lot of press over recent years, describing it as a wonderful city. I wonder, what is Czechia like beyond Prague? I doubted that few Americans go beyond the Prague city limits. My sister-in-law Kristi two or three years ago had been looking for a job opportunity to take her secondary school…
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Ten day tour of Czechia, days two and three, June 12-13, 2023
We had slept in the town of Davle, maybe forty kilometers south of Prague. The only downside about our hotel, the Pizzeria Grado Penzion, was that it did not serve breakfast or even morning coffee. It turned out to be the only hotel on this entire trip that did not include breakfast. We packed up…
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Ten day cycle tour of central Czechia, days four and five, June 14-15, 2023
The breakfast at Art Hotel in Pisek was typically Czech good. There was granola, yogurt, and chocolate chunks. A coffee machine made all kinds of cappuccinos. We were each given a small glass bottle of orange juice and the croissants were fresh. We packed up the bicycles, but before leaving town we had to make…
urban bicycle journeys 