On the Road Again!

Part of the enjoyment of a holiday/vacation trip is the planning stage.  Thinking of somewhere to go and then looking in books like the Rough Guide and on the internet, Tripadvisor for instance, for places to go whilst away and also where to stay. Over the years I have tried quite a few online hotel booking sites and booking.com is the one I return to when I am looking for hotels. But not not all trips happen.  Such as Hungary and Croatia in 2008. Planned and most of the bookings made, including the German "Autozug" to Villach in Austria. In the end it got cancelled due to illness.   Another example is Norge15 , a bike trip to Norway set for August 2015. I had a heart attack at Easter 2015 and that put the kibbosh on a bike trip that far away. Luckily I'd only booked hotels and they could be cancelled for free. We were lucky that both trips got full refunds. Another is a planned trip to Assen BSB in 2019. Planned but cancelled as my work schedule changed and Claire's...

The picture on the left and those linked below were sent to me in a series of emails by my friend, Ivan Benda, in the Czech Republic. Ivan's photos are from the Brno Memorial Day for Marco Simoncelli at the Masaryk Automotodrom on October 30th 2011. To get them seen by a wider audience I created a Flickr account for him and uploaded all the photos. As well as here, with a very limited audience, I have posted it a few Facebook goups. http://www.flickr.com/photos/2strokercz/sets/72157628037175150/

http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=1264032 Update: May 2017 Everytrail closed down.  Another bunch of shitheads that get people to invest time and effort then they fuck off leaving the investors with their stuff lost and efforts wasted.

Accommodation in Brno sorted with my friend Lilka, actually at her house in Popuvky.  It's only walking distance to the race track! Counting the days back from the end weekend gives us a date of the 17th to set off back. 

Tickets ordered online, bought and paid for. All I need to do now is sort out my accommodation locally. http://www.brno-circuit.com/en/

It's way back in 2004 ( blogged here ) that we last went to Czech to see my friends from the Gymnázium in Zastávka .  We have made plans before and have had to cancel for one reason or another. So here we are again. This time we have the added complication of the world banking system cocking up the lives of millions of us.  As well as visiting friends in and around Brno I want to make the Czech MotoGP my big race of the year.  On the way out towards Czech I have been looking at Youth Hostels ( http://www.djh.de/ ) and budget hotels on the Internet. The first couple of days are about 300 miles, but we have all day to do the mileage and then a load of shorter days. Plan A: Home to Bochum (Germany) and stay in Formule 1 (booked). Bochum to Colditz. Stay two nights in YH (booked) which is actually the famous WW2 Castle. Castle tour in the morning. Colditz to Liberec.  Stay in Hotel Orion (booked). Liberec to Brno via Hradec Kralove where I hope to ...