We left Nymburk about
9am and we just had a short walk through the town to the river. It was river
bank walking all the way today until we reached the turn off to the town of
Lysa nad Labem.
For the first time we
saw large river cruise ship, the largest vessel we've seen to date. It was just
heading west from Nymburk and approaching a railway bridge. The ship was so
large they had to lower some of the sun shades on the top deck so they could pass
under the bridge.
Although it was cool
to start with it soon heated up and was around 30°C by the time we finished
walking. There was not as much shade as yesterday and we finished up walking
quickly from shade spot to shade spot, where we stopped or at least slowed, to
cool down.
Near the end of the
walk we found some shade by taking a yellow blazed trail. It ran through a
small woodland and was also a more direct route than the cycle path
Lots of fish plopping
out of the water today and we passed some of the largest fields of sun flowers
we've seen.
Initially the turn off
to Lysa nad Labem involved walking on our busiest road so far, but only for
about 1/2km. It was nearly longer as I was navigating from memory and forgot
the turning.
As we were arriving a
bit early, i.e. before 14:00 we stopped at a Pizzeria for a drink. At first we
thought Lysa nad Labem was the Czech equivalent of Heckmondwike, but on closer
inspection, today, the day after the walk when we are writing this, we found a
very nice chateau with extensive gardens which is now a home for the
chronologically challenged.
Total walk about 20.5
km which is a typical walking day.
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