Day 4 - Colditz to Brno

This one turned out to be a very long day. After breakfast and then cleaning our room in the Castle we eventually set off about 0915.

Using the Garmin we navigated to the border in good time and bought our motorway vignette. After just a few miles the road ends and there is a big gap to the final section to Prague.

The traffic was heavy with trucks in both directions nose to tail. We stopped for petrol soon after Teplice and found the price was even higher than at home. A litre of unleaded was 35.50kč or £1.54! And we complain!

The Garmin took us into Prague and then out on the D11 towards Hradec Kralové. Here a former student of mine, Rostislav Kříž,  lives and I wanted to call in and see him.

We stopped for lunch at a Motorest that shared its site with a Hummer dealers!!

Rosta lives in a nice house with a massive garden in the outskirts. We had a chat about the old times and then we had to leave.

The ordinary road 37 to the D1 took nearly two hours, passing through every town and village where everyone religiously slowed to 50kph.

The final part of the day was the bone shaking run down the D1 to Brno. The junction we needed was closed do we went past to Brno-Bohunice and back along the 602 to Popůvky.

Once we arrived outside the door we were met by Lilka and son Tomas. Shown to our room and then we sat to chat before BBQ dinner.

It was after midnight when we finally went to bed, BBQ and two bottles of wine later...