urban bicycle journeys

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…

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…

Five days earlier we had started cycling away from Prague on the Vltava River and had proceeded south and upstream. Now Lyman and I were leaving Ceske Budejovice for the next town along the river; Cesky Krumlov. Cesky Krumlov is billed as being the most picturesque town in all of Czechia. It was only about…