Today we had an easy
walk with very little walking on main roads. Mostly we followed the cycle route
24 but where it deviated from the 'red' trail we followed the 'red' trail
instead. We still walked over 20km but as the temperature stayed below 25°C and
there was plenty of shade from trees it was not as tiring as it could have
been.
Because of a pretty
active thunderstorm last night the path was quite muddy so it was very much
like a country walk in the UK. We only passed through one village where we bought
orange drinks and drank them whilst we did a sock change and waited for our
feet to dry out.
Shortly before
reaching Podebrady we had a long chat, whilst walking, with a 74 year old Czech
who spoke pretty good English. He had had a pace maker fitted and was walking
for exercise.
Podebrady is a nice
little spa town with a different structure to most towns we've visited so far.
It has a rectangular town square, with the required statue of saints, but this
does not seem to be the centre of activity. Podebrady has a very beautiful park
with two long avenues running the whole length and this seems to be the area of
greatest social interaction. It also has some very cunning automated fountains.
We are in a small Pension off one of the main avenues. Tomorrow we are having a
short day and we are only walking as far as Numburk.
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