Day 23 - September 23rd 2001

So what do you have for breakfast after a pig roast? Pork soup, yummy. After packing up we jumped in the car to visit a castle, Helfstyn. A nice old castle with a kick arse catapult parked out the front. This castle, or Hrad in Czech holds large blacksmith festivals each year. The tour was very interesting and blacksmith art was displayed all throughout the castle. There was even a solo blacky practising his craft. It looked the piece in an old place like this. The castle was build in the 12th century, so it was getting a bit of a touch up. Once finished with all the artworks it will look grand.

Into the car and back to the Brno, along the way passing heaps of fruit trees along the side of the road. Apples, pears, plums and cherries, hundreds of them. With all this free fruit and mushrooms, who needs the supermarket? At home we tried to make our packs as light as possible for the next weeks travels around Czech. We also took the time to run the in-laws through the Scotland trip. A fly on the wall could have been mistaken that we were from the Scottish tourism agency.


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