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I always blame the dog tooThe burger may have been delicious but it isn’t half making Flynn fart.
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I always blame the dog tooThe burger may have been delicious but it isn’t half making Flynn fart.
He doesn’t!"I’m the same as Flynn"
Hope your farting discretely then.
Thanks! I’ve found some NHS guidelines & I’m doing the elevation and the up down motion for the first 2 weeks. Writing letters is advanced stuff for week 3Sorry to hear about your ankle. A good ankle exercise is to make the motions of writing the alphabet with your big toe on the affected foot ( can do the non affected one too if you want ). Also elevate the foot higher than your bum whenever you can. It should heal well. I did mine 20 years ago and although I used to get occasional aches I haven't for a long while .
Think I’ll do that anyway - dropped from 21,000 steps the day before the injury to 3,000 odd now. And I seem to be no less hungryWell done Jane for carrying on. I would have wanted to go home and lie in bed watching movies all day, eating and putting on a stone in a couple of weeks
Delicious actually. But I did have to eat most of Rog’s spinach as mine was totally lacking in green!The ossuary photos were brilliant. I hoped the meals tasted better than they looked!
I would be impressed if you could pronounce it, I was even impressed by you knowing how to type the accents!We settled on Restaurant Dačický for dinner. (Just look at those accents. I’ve no clue how to pronounce it.
Please can I have the chickpea stew recipeCoddiwompling day 7: Into Czechia
Despite the camping in Altkötzschenbroda being in the town’s car park, it was very peaceful. It is also right next to the river so Flynn got his morning swim and Jane took her Earl Grey on the bank.
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In Germany it’s illegal to be outside on Sunday so we made good time to…. Well where to go because everything in Germany is closed on Sunday. We briefly toyed with backtracking to Meissen to pick up a souvenir piece of pottery (Denby preceded by Spode being our two vans, there’s a theme here you see) but, the cheapest coffee mug Meissen make is €78. Let’s not even look at the most expensive. Well, let’s take a quick look, it’s quite a thing. Maybe get one to celebrate Jane’s leg getting better.
Anyway, nothing to do in Germany except not be able to afford a mug so on to Czechia. Bohemian Switzerland to be precise. This is the other side of the Elbe Sandstone Mountains that also make up Saxon Switzerland in Germany. We drove through the steep sided Elbe River and then up next to a tributary to the centre of the national park. We had planned a full day walking out via Europe’s longest natural stone bridge and back by river. Sadly broken ankles put pay to that so I took Flynn for a quick climb up to some of the more impressive sandstone outcrops. Except I didn’t. For the second time this century, the forest in Bohemian Switzerland has been wiped out. In 2017-18 the spruce trees planted by the Victorians suffered from drought and were then scoffed by bark beetle. The government replanted with a less homogeneous population but, last year, there was a fire that killed a lot of trees and weakened the soil. This means a lot of the paths are closed.
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Death by squashing awaits
Flynn and I tried out best to make a good walk but we had to double back a lot. It’s a shame because the park is beautiful. Full of huge rock edifices and deep damp gorges. It’s also full of foxgloves - possibly making the most of clearings left by the fires.
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Surely fox mittens?
Eventually reunited with Jane back at the car park we decided to have lunch at the U Fořta Mezní Louka hotel (///accommodate.earliest.contend). We were expecting sausages and beer but it was actually quite posh: duck pate and wild garlic syrup for Jane and pork neck and pasta risotto with wild mushrooms and chestnuts for me. Alcohol limits for driving in Czechia are an easily understood and easily followed: “none” so I washed it all down with water whilst Jane had an Aperol Spritz - a sure sign that the temperature is rising.
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Temperature, rising
From the car park, it was a short hop to our home for the night: Autokamping Česka Brána (///competently.nurses.toys). It’s a lovely site with a lake and a restaurant where they brew their own beer. In hindsight we picked our pitch too early and couldn’t have got something much wilder feeling but it’s still nice.
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Photo of your van, camping etc.
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Camp beer. May be 8% by volume.
The site is great, modulo very Eastern European showers that take cash money and then direct you to scurry to a numbered cubicle. Not great for the team’s invalid.
Dinner was BBQ pork steaks from Germany, some left over sprouting broccoli imported from Blighty and a delicious chickpea stew by Jane. Also, that campsite beer.
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Both the U Fořta Mezní Louka restaurant and Autokamping Česka Brána don’t take cards so we’re burning through our eurocash. At least they don’t expect Czechia blip blaps. Except in that shower.
Codiwomple rating: getting hotter
Long press on any key on iPad and you get a choiceI would be impressed if you could pronounce it, I was even impressed by you knowing how to type the accents!
They varyPlease can I have the chickpea stew recipe
Yes, the day after it changed to a more general swelling all over my foot, which I think is slowly going down now. Apologies for the photo!Has the "tennis ball" swelling gone down on your ankle yet Jane?
That's good thenYes, the day after it changed to a more general swelling all over my foot, which I think is slowly going down now. Apologies for the photo!
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Yes, all still good. I really don’t notice the difference in colour myself - it just looks like the light is different on the front of the van, so I’m happy with it.I diverse slightly but I can’t help notice that the front of your van is slightly a different shade, now I remember you had it done in Morocco, how is it holding up ..? Is the paintwork still good…
I ask as I’m thinking of getting some paint done while I’m out there this winter…
Flynn would be behaving more like that naughty horse.You can see the bruising coming out Jane. Ouch! I hope it’s not too painful, great you are mobile, but take it easy too.
Loving your hols, very interesting, funny and inspiring. Flynn is a treasure.
His brother from another mother was trooping the king last weekend…
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I diverse slightly but I can’t help notice that the front of your van is slightly a different shade, now I remember you had it done in Morocco, how is it holding up ..? Is the paintwork still good…
I ask as I’m thinking of getting some paint done while I’m out there this winter…