As the last two days
were pretty long, and we've been on the road for a week we took the day off to
rest and catch up with washing. We couldn't find a laundrette so we were busy
in the bathroom fo a while.
As usual I packed too
many "just in case" clothes making my pack heavier than I liked
so today we also visited the post office to ship back 2kg of clothes to my
sister in the UK. This means tomorrow Shiel can pass 1kg of her bag contents on
to me.
It's been heating up
as we've come south, ~29C today, so it was nice to be able to 'blob out.'
Thinking it would be
easier to blog on a full size computer we visited the local tourist infomation
centre to use their internet, 50 crowns/hour. Beware if you try this as it is
not as simple as it first appears, quite a few of the letters are in different
places on the Czech keyboard to their location on the NZ/US keyboard.
As a general comment
we have found the standard of living seems to be quite high, at least for some
people, but the cost of living (holidaying at least) seems much cheaper than NZ
or the UK. We've passed lots of large detached houses with large gardens and
many with swimming pools. In contrast we've also passed some very delapidated
houses very near the well maintained ones. Sometimes next door.
Another feature of the
Czech landscape that has surprised us is the number of dog owners (and dogs!)
Shiel has been using walking poles and the noise they make on hitting the road
seems particularly irritating to our canine friends. There are dogs in almost
every garden, dogs in hotels (barking to each other), dogs in restaurants and
dogs on carriers on bicycles. I haven't seen, let alone trodden in any canine
faeces though.
I never thought I'd
say it but I think the English come second to the Czechs as dog lovers.
Holy Spirit Cathedral and White Tower
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