We left the hotel on a quiet route via the old city and soon reached a path beside the Labe. We started on the eastern bank and shortly crossed to the west bank. We saw the fire brigade having an exercise deploying a barrage across the Labe presumably to contain something like an oil spill. After a few kilometers we crossed back to the eastern bank via a one lane bridge with traffic lights. It was here the 24 joined the road and for a time it was quite busy. This was followed by a section of good cycle path, better than the road alongside but this soon ran out.
It became very hot and sunny and although the road became quieter it was really too hot for road walking.
We walked through many small villages and between fields of maize and corn. In passing through the villages we were always greeted by a cacophany of canine barks. Often many households had two or three dogs, all barking.
We stopped for a liquid lunch and shortly afterwards the road became more of a track. We eventually left the cycle route 24 to take a green blazed walking trail into Prelouc. The walking trail ran through a wood and it was great to be out of the sun. The downside was I was attacked by a cloud of bighting flies. The track came out on the main Pardoubice - Prelouc road about 2 km from our hotel (Fontana).
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