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Tour date: 1-17 June 2005. Total distance: 1400 km.
Bicycle Tour: Eastern Europe (Italy - Slovenia - Croatia - Hungary - Slovakia - Austria - Czech Republic)
Thomas Driemeyer2005-10-16 14:37:51
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in Austria, only more so because there are more hills and more varied forests. Again there is very little traffic, but the hills are steeper. Brtnice looked particularly scenic with its two churches built on a hill, but it involved descending and then climbing almost 100m. After each hill we were a little higher, until we reached 680m. When entering Jihlava we passed a large supermarket.
Jihlava was our original choice for staying overnight, but it was too early so we we rode route 523 through Bily Kamen and Kalhov to Humpolec. The first two hotels we tried there were fully booked, but we found a nice and brand-new hotel at a swimming pool, right above the pool's bar, at the southern end of town. Finding the place took an hour. Most towns we rode through were very nice, minus the approach roads in some cases, but Humpolec is an exception. There is really nothing to see here. Even finding a restaurant took a while, but we found the really nice Papa's Garden restaurant at Skolni 1646. As always the menu translations to English and German are hilarious. What is a fruit harpoon? Fruit must be a lot more vicious here than what we get in Berlin.
Another day of scenic rides through the Czech hills followed. The first section through Sperice and Horice occasionally runs parallel to the freeway for a while, but then turns away through Studeny and Borovnice to meet with route 112 to Vlasim. Traffic was very light on both. Still, to stay on side roads as long as possible, we followed a complicated series of roads through Bilkovice and Divisov, and crossed underneath the freeway once more to Chocerady. We descended 200m to reach the town, but had to pay back every meter as we climbed out of town towards Mnichovice and Ricany. Except for this climb, the hills were lower than yesterday, the climbs shorter, and we lost overall altitude.
Originally we planned to stay the night in Ricany, but it was still early
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