Day 9 Prague June 20th

Day 9 Prague june 20

Leaving the High Tatras mountain it is a little cool,but no rain.We meander down the mountain side which you can just about hear Julie Andrews singing" The hills are alive with music."It is very picturesque the road surface is fantastic .Vic and I are tail end charlie for the morning as we are trying to keep the "SLOW: ones in check.
WE ride through little villages which look like they have been here for ever,the road twists and turns around houses that seem to be in the middle of the road churches and castles dot the country side.
The fields have many crops growing like poppy's ,rape,corn and lots and lots of potatoes.
We slow down and let the slow ones (yes Mary) get a few klms ahead so at least we can have a fast run to catch up.
We stop at the Bouzov Castle .It looks like the fairy tail castle that Disney has copied.
The castle was built in the mid 14 th century it is very popular with film making, so yes i was in my element.We stop and Rozle buys some waifer biscuits for morning tea and they were filming a medieval movie and all the extras were sitting around having a coffee break, so we had our photos taken It was a lot of fun off course nobody spoke English just a lot of laughs..
Moving along we are now up front as the road has many corners and we ride through beautiful forests and the sun is shinning .Vic is happy all the Auzzies are behind enjoying the ride with out having to slow down.
But again up front has its draw backs as we have to wait for the slow Mary and Ron...:-(
Having lunch is a wonderful cafe the service is very quick and again we have a traditional feast of Czech.
Us Aussies are so well prepared to ride on.. always ready to ride.
We had a complaint from (!) that we are trying to hurry them up and are always sitting on the bikes ready to ride and THEY are not ready.
Bugger me
The rain clouds have come over so now we stop to put on the wets.. Vic now has had enough of stopping waiting and speeds off just to let of steam.. He is Ok afer 50klms.
We stop again at the Ossuary Chapel of All Saints In Kutna Hora. A very bizarre place it is a small Roman Catholic Chapel . It contains approximately 40,000 human skeletons which have been artistically arranged to form decorations... weird.
Back on the bikes after some ice creams it starts to rain just a few spots so back on the wets.
We are heading or Prague and the traffic is very heavy again we have to ride the hog way. but it does not work the road is fast and the traffic does not give a fig about bikes it is just like dodgems if you can.
Arriving at our hotel in the middle of Prague we find we have lost RON who does not want to keep up. Pauline says a few words Vic is still not him self, as he had to follow Mary who keeps turning her head and taking three turns to get around the round about. She said that she kept an eye on him as she did not want him to get lost....:-(
Dinner was a short walk down to the old city and it was fantastic Alan ordered a knuckle which he ate in no time, the riding does make one very hungary...
I don't think the riders from the USA want to mingle with us Aussies I wonder why???
They all sat on one table and there was no room for us 7 (yes I include Alan as he is not like them he is nearly an Aussie)
To day is a rest day so we are doing a walking tour of the city..