Cycle to Melnik

Today it was time to say goodbye to Prague, get back on our bikes and start riding again. Ahead of us was a 55 km ride to Melnik. Although most of our later cycling would be along the Elbe River, today we followed the Vitava River all the way to Melnik. That is where we saw our first glimpse of the Elbe, which we would be following all the way to Dresden.

After leaving Prague, we soon discovered that the bike route was much quieter and less developed than the Danube Bike Path we had been following for the previous two weeks. Many of the small towns looked almost deserted, making it quite hard to find a place to buy lunch or coffee. Talk about the "Road Less Travelled".Read more