Driving to Czech Republic

This morning was cool and cloudy. It was time to move on, and the weather was good for driving. We said our goodbyes to Frank and Adrie and took with us a huge care package of fruit, snacks and sandwich fixings. We really had a great time in Italy and we felt a bit like we were spoiled.

The drive north to Czech Republic was long, but beautiful. The north part of Italy was quite mountainous, there were many vineyards on the steep slopes and the clouds seemed to be resting in the mountains. We then went on through Austria. We had planned to drive through a particular mountain pass in Austria, but in the end we just stuck with the highway. We figured we had seen enough mountains and didn’t really want to add the extra time to the drive. Besides, even the view from the highway is beautiful.

We had some Italian music that we had copied from Frank and Adrie. It was so nice to be driving along listening to such romantic music. The girls preferred some of the English music we had picked up.

We found a hotel in Cesky Krumlov with little difficulty and then walked into the old town for some supper. It’s a beautiful little town and we were sorry that we had left our camera behind in the hotel room, but there will be time for photos of Cesky Krumlov tomorrow!

CM