While this season means the stress of school reports (almost done), high-stakes exams (starting soon) and a theatrical production (just finished), it all seems to melt away under warm Spring sunbeams. Nothing seems so bad when they're dancing on your pasty skin after a grey winter.
The pleasant temps also allow for equally de-stressing outdoor pursuits. We've been taking in Prague's parks by foot and relishing all the fresh blooms.
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| In Letna Park |
And then there's biking; for our first ride of the season, we did a 50km ride from Prague to Karlstejn Castle. It was for a fundraiser for an orphanage in Tanzania that my school supports.
We gathered early on a Saturday,
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| Near school |
smiling even though longer dreams would have been ideal.
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| Grinning through gritted teeth |
The route took us along some small cliffs...
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| The sun went away and a chill set in |
...over a bridge...
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| No trolls, though |
...past the most bucolic scenery...
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| Painting-worthy |
...and to the village of Karlstejn, crowned with a castle!
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| Victory! |
BW and I each inhaled thick bowls of kulajda soup and plates of fried cheese, chicken schnitzel and potatoes. After all, my heart rate said I burned something like 1,400 calories!
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| It hurts to sit |
And then it was back home on the train for us. Others in the group BIKED back to Prague, but our derrieres had received enough abuse for the day :)
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| The Karlstejn train station |
Well done for cycling 50km. I could manage that & more, forty years ago - but not now! Scenically, the Prague - Karlštejn trip is very attractive & your photos capture it well.
ReplyDeleteIt was much to far for the first ride of the season; I am no "spring chicken"! Do you type your Czech letter accents or cut and paste the words? I notice you have all the carons, etc., on your words...
ReplyDeleteIf you're not a 'spring chicken' then I hate to think what that makes me :-)
ReplyDeleteWhilst the laptop I work on was bought in the Czech Republic, it is set up to for writing in English. I'm sure there is some short cut I could use to make it write in Czech, but I haven't yet found it. Therefore I usually compile things in a text document using Open Office, inserting the necessary diacritics as I write. Then I copy & paste. Annoyingly, for technical reasons that are beyond my comprehension, my own blog set-up, cannot cope with numerous Czech diacritics & instead, renders them as question marks. This is the only issue where Google Blogspot does seem to be better than WordPress.
As you are an English teacher, may I gently point out that it should be 'much too far', rather than 'much to far', in your previous answer to my original comment.
Whoops - typo! Thanks for sharing the diacritics process you use. See you soon!
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