Czech Republic

On our last day in Czechia we visited castle Hluboka, just a few kilometres north from Budweis.

Before going there, we saw this nuclear power station of Temelin.

These 4 huge cooling towers just were built near the border between Austria and Czechia. It once made Austrian people scared, because they worried about the possibility of exploding.

However, when you see them in the landscape, then they even look a bit beautiful, and not dangerous at all.

When we arrived in the small town Hluboka, we had lunch first in a restaurant just a few meters from this nice small church.

The dumplings and Sauerkraut were different with Austrian ones, but they all tasted not so bad, I liked them so much.

Look, I was so happy to take such a delicious food.

Later we went up to the castle, seeing the first parts of it when passing through a small forest.

It was a very magnificent castle, each corner of it looked like a beautiful picture...

Hluboka is really a nice and romantic castle.

Unfortunately we had no opportunity to take pictures of the nice interiors, as photographing was not allowed there.

In the park near the castle.

Inside the castle.

Before the main tour through the interior rooms started, we had some time to climb the castle tower first...

...from where we had a nice view on the park and surrounding area.

In Czechia, we baught one bear which named Sissi, and one hedgehog which named Nene. They were very cute, we liked them so much.

When my honey was driving, I put Nene on his shoulder and took a picture for them, looked so interesting.

I took the picture with Nene by myself in our car.

Sissi and Nene, hehe...

Before we went back to Austria, we decided to take Czechia food for the last time. Then we drove to a small village close to the border, and took the dinner in a local small restaurant.

My honey ordered two sweet dumplings, very big and round dumplings, looked so funny. I made a fun of them, and said they looked like two D cup breasts, haha...

I ordered this Palatschinken with banana and icecream, tasted very nice.

This day we visited the biggest city in the south of Czechia.
It is called Ceske Budejovice in Czech language, or Budweis in German.

Budweis is most known for it's delicious beer, the "Budweiser", but is also a nice place for sight seeing and shopping.

On our way from the parking site to the city center we passed by these beautiful churches.

This is the main city square of Budweis.

And this is the townhall, which has been restaurated recently.

Isn't it beautiful?

Some more impressions of the city square.

Later we took lunch in a restaurant nearby.

I had beef with bacon & mushroom sauce, and my honey had wild boar.

Later, in the evening, when we arrived the hut, it was raining first. Waiting for about one hour, we started barbecue when the rain stopped.

My honey was good at making fire, so it burned quickly.

Comparing with the barbecue of last time, this time was much better, because we were more skillful on managing it well, especially on making the food taste more delicious.

My honey was trying to make the fire burning nicely.

My honey was waiting for the right time to start barbecue.

I applyed more BBQ seasonings on the food, and hoped it would make them taste much better than last time.

Now it was getting dark, and we were already very hungry...

Looking at such a delicious food, do you also want to taste? hehe...

When we were eating, suddenly found some people playing the fireworks beside the lake. There were many different kinds of fireworks, but it was pity that I did not take enough pictures for them in time, just only two.

Looking at the beautiful fireworks, we felt so romantic, and made our delicious BBQ dinner much more wonderful.

Besides, this day also was a special day for my honey and me, because it was the 4th month of our marriage life. I do hope our marriage can keep happy forever!

Today should be a very nice day, nice weather, nice sight seeing, nice food...but unfortunately, after coming back from the castle, we found my honey's bag disappeared, the thief opened our car and stole it. Such a unlucky day! My honey said that it was his first time to encounter stealing, and almost could not believe. Because in Europe, the public security should be much more safer than Asia. But it was really a truth, we had to face the fact. However, it was also a good lesson for us, we will be much more careful where we go.

In front of our hut, there was a quiet lake. Everyday we could see some people swimming, or lying on the grass and enjoying the sunshine.

For entering the historical part of the city Krumau we passed through this big gate.

A first view of Krumau.

Then we crossed a bridge and took the first pictures of Krumau castle.

The inner city of Krumau consists of many small roads...

...and lots of souvenir shops.

There was a funny statue in front of a restaurant.

After walking through some of the small roads...

...we went up to the castle.

Just below the castle entrance there was a bear in a big cage area, walking around slowly, looked like very lonely...

Beside of the bear, it was its shit.

First we went up the big tower...

...which offered some nice views on Krumau.

Thereafter we had to wait until the main tour through the inner rooms of the castle started,

so we just walked around a bit,

until we could enter the inner rooms.

This carriage was only used for a single trip of the prince to visit the pope in Italy.

The dining room.

The blue saloon.

The bedroom of the queen.

The small theatre room.

Later we went to the upper part of the castle, to visit the castle's park.

Such a cute fountain.

Near the park we also could find some more nice views down on the city.

This was Czechia local food, very special! They put the soup and sausaages into the hollow bread.

The sweet Palatschinken with icecream.

Today was the national holiday in Austria, so we took the opportunity to go to Czechia to stay there from Thursday to Sunday.

We decided to rent a small hut at a camping site near a small lake in Stilec, which is nicely located between some major Czechian tourist locations.

Unfortunately when we arrived at 3pm in the afternoon, we still had to wait another two hours until the office of the camping site opened.

So we had some food at the local restaurant first.

The main course was mixed BBQ meat with various types of vegetables and potatoes.

The drinks are apple juice and Czechian beer.

Finally we had mixed fruits for desert.

Driving on the road, we could find many sexy hookers looking for their business. It was legel in Czechia, but I had never seen it in Austria. So i took some pictures slinkingly in our car. But I was scared to be seen by those hookers or the drivers, so that those pictures had not good quality, and could not see clearly.

This hooker was bargaining with the driver in the car, but they took long time to do that, so we just wondered if they also did something special else, hehe...

This is our hut in which we spent three nights.

It's not very luxurious, but good enough for a few days, and best of all is that nobody minds if you make a campfire for your own BBQ just in front of the hut.

To start a fire, first you go to the nearby forest...

...and collect some wood...

...and break it to smaller pieces.

Then you arrange that wood to a nice pile, smaller wood inside, bigger wood outside.

You light it... and - voilá - you have a fire.

If the wood is dry and you do it right, then it will burn quickly.

In the meantime you prepare some delicious food such as pork, chicken meat, sausages, vegetables, potatoes...

...and when the fire has burned down, but the big pieces of wood are still hot...

...you can grill all that food...

At this time, it was very dark, so we had to use the torch and head-lighters to make everything looking clearly.

...and enjoy it later.

Very delicious!