July 8
Leaving our delightful "home away from home" today we travel south from the borders of Germany to the Czech Republic, through rolling hills and clumps of forest - summer green. A somber stop along the way is the fort and cemetery at Terezin, the first of the temporary concentration camps, housing Czech, Hungarian, and Polish Jews and other "undesirables" in 1941.
On a more pleasant subject, we lunched at the beautiful castle in Melnik, overlooking the Vltava River, later arriving in Prague in time for a tour of the Prague Castle complex, largest medieval castle in Europe. After we settled into our hotel our evening included a "Czech Party", a dinner and folk show of musicians and dancers, at a country inn. Tired and full of wine, Czech beer, good ethnic food, we tumbled into bed.
Leaving our delightful "home away from home" today we travel south from the borders of Germany to the Czech Republic, through rolling hills and clumps of forest - summer green. A somber stop along the way is the fort and cemetery at Terezin, the first of the temporary concentration camps, housing Czech, Hungarian, and Polish Jews and other "undesirables" in 1941.
On a more pleasant subject, we lunched at the beautiful castle in Melnik, overlooking the Vltava River, later arriving in Prague in time for a tour of the Prague Castle complex, largest medieval castle in Europe. After we settled into our hotel our evening included a "Czech Party", a dinner and folk show of musicians and dancers, at a country inn. Tired and full of wine, Czech beer, good ethnic food, we tumbled into bed.
No comments:
Post a Comment