We decided to sleep in today and asked for a wake up call for 8AM. I woke up at 5:30 again but stayed in bed and was just falling back to sleep when someone went by with a cart full of bottles on the cobble stone or something and the noise went on for quite awhile...ugh! So when I did finally get up I almost felt hung over and I didn't even drink last night. Went down for breakfast around 8:30 - they changed it up and had scrambled eggs today. They had some h...

So I woke up at 5:30 this morning...don't know why. Took my shower and worked on my pictures. After Gilles got ready we walked to the little grocery store around the corner for some drinks and snacks for the room. We had breakfast around 8 then I worked on my pictures and edited my blog. We got on the bus at 10 and headed to Kromeriz. We went to the gardens of the Emperor Franz-Josef. Poor Garry he had a flare up of gout and he was walking with a pretty goo...

We got back to the hotel around 8 or so and then a bunch of us met in the court yard since it is so beautiful outside - 24 with a nice breeze and no bugs. The police walked by - pointed to their watch and put their finger to their lips...we got the message loud and clear. Forgetting that Sunday still means something over here. We all had to prepick our dinner orders for 2 nights from now. The options were pretty good. I will describe our meals the night we h...

This settlement is from the 9th century - it was quite interesting to see...not sure the boys appreciated the significance of it. We walked 1km away from the settlement and saw the Basilica Velehrad. It is one of the most significant places of pilgrimage in Moravia. It was built in the late Romanesque style in 1240s. A part of the monastery is the Basilica of the Virgin Mary Assumption and SS. Cyril and Method. Current appearance of the monastery dates back...

We had a wakeup call at 7:00 so we had time to wake up, eat breakfast and walk to the arena. The breakfast was really nice. Cereal, eggs, fruit, veggies, breads, croisants, meats, cheese - my kind of breakfast and it is included in the cost of our room. 9 am - The boys played a pickup game with a mens team (20-30 yearolds). The owner of the arena said if he let us use the arena for the boys to get the bugs out and help with the jet lag his team had to be ab...