Moravia adventures

Another day another UNESCO heritage site. Not to be outdone by the aristocracy, the arch bishops of Moravia had their own Chateau in Kromeriz an hour drive from Brno. I was able to convince the girls to get going earlier to avoid the heat. We were away by 8 and made it very comfortably to Kromeriz by 9:30.

The Czech are crazy drivers. The posted speed limit is 100km per hour but the average speed seems to be about 120 with people flying by at 140. The predominant cars are Skodas and Volvos. They have obviously forgiven the Swedes about the 30 year war.

The Chateau was beautiful. We did a tour in Czech but had English translations. Lots of beautiful furniture and the Chateau was in Rococo style. The two notable events at the Chateau were that it was used as the Austrian parliament building in 1846 for a year during some civil unrest and the czar of Russia visited in 1885? to meet the Austrian monarch. He had left a 300 kg vase of Malachite and his portrait. After the tour we wandered in the garden a bit , had our lunch and fed the peacocks before the heat got the best of us and we returned to Brno.

We warmed out in the afternoon and then Cheryl and I in the evening went for a swim at the pool looking out on the castle and Brno.Leia mais