Luban was great and we sort of wished we had longer there, everyone really pleasant and pleased to chat to us, comfortable hotel and beer at less than £2 a pint, what’s not to love, but onwards we go. Our plan, take advantage of some good biking roads on the way to the Church of Bones in Czech Republic before making our way to a camp site near Brno.
Almost everything went to plan bar a few road diversions and a bridge that had collapsed which kept throwing us off route. We arrived at the church of Bones at about 1pm. Entrance fee of €7 gives you access to two churches. The small chapel where the alter and much of the decorations are made from the bones of between 40,000 and 70,000 people, which, in many cases, been artistically arranged to form decorations and furnishings, and a larger cathedral, which ignoring the uniqueness of the chapel was an amazing building; huge paintings depicting religious scenes, ornate architecture and the ability to access the huge vaulted roof space to see the fabric of the 13th century building. Unfortunately no photography in the Curch of Bones, meant that the images we’ve included are pinched from the internet.
From the Church of Bones we travelled south east towards Camp Hana near Brno which was our stop for the evening and which lies on the banks of the River Svratka. We witnessed again the difference that european drivers treat motor bikers and cyclists , going out of their way to provide you with room to overtake or filter through in slow moving traffic. Plenty of wildlife along the journey, huge hawks hovering over the roads and fields, wild deer in the fields and a less than friendly terrier which came out of a farm entrance running and barking at Andy’s rear wheel. The camp site we arrived to was very different from the luxury site we were expecting from the web site but never the less adequate for what we needed. After pitching tents and of course the obligatory game of Frisbee we changed and walked into the town of Veverská Bítýška for a few local beers and food. Choosing a beer was exceeding simple and very quick but thank goodness for google translate, without which it would have took us a long time to pick food from the menu which was all in Czech.
After a few hours and beers later we walked back along the river to the campsite for a relatively early night.
