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Tuesday |
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I'm going to try to make the story of a long ride short. After days and days of rain, it was finally dry enough to depart Prague for Tábor, 100 km to the south. We had a good city map on which every bike path, route, and lane was marked. We left Vršovice via the Botic creek and I showed Josh where I'd been a hero once. The blue dotted line we followed was serpentine and we had to stop every couple hundred meters to orient ourselves and decide which way next. For hours we pedalled through green passages like something Kafka might have dreamt. We saw a lot of beauty but were concerned to be making only about 5km/hour; we could have walked faster than that. After taking a wrong turn and completing a grand pointless loop, we finally made it to the city limits and celebrated with fried cheese and beer at an outdoor table in Pruhonice. Just then it started to rain. We decided to double back to Haje metro station and call it quits. The straight route there took 15 minutes. |
