After lugging our suitcases down 7 flights of stairs and up 2 to get to our meeting place, we were exhausted before our tour had even begun! Our friendly guide, Carlos, introduced himself, although I'd already recognised him from the brochure. We jumped on our bus with Laura, our very cool bus driver and headed through the lovely Czech countryside. Past fields of bright yellow canola, rivers, green mountains and pointy roofed houses nestled in cute little towns. We did some "speed dating" on the bus to get to know our fellow passengers and everyone seemed pretty cool. Our first stop was the unsual and slighlty freaky Church of Bones then it was on to Olomouc where we stayed for our first night. We did a walking tour through the town, had a group dinner then
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