Days Two and Three: Bruges to Prague

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Day Two was very much a driving day: we were held up on the roads and so we had to substitute our planned stop at Heidelburg Castle for one at Marksburg Castle. This was probably a good thing, seeing as it cut out four hours of driving. Markburg was very interesting: much bsmaller than the Scottish and English castles I've seen in the past; much smaller and -we got the idea- more cramped. Maybe because it was older, or maybe because it was built on a rocky outcrop where they couldn't expand much.

Day Two ended at a campsite run by a very strange man called Hermann (the German) who kept putting on an old Halloween mask on in the bar, sneaking up behind random girls and pretending to bite them. Must be good to be able to do that every night and for it still to be original. The campsite was obviously some kind of stop off point for a lot of these kind of tours as the walls were practically papered with beer mats, some of which read OzBus.

We left early (we always do) but I managed to get packed and breakfasted before the bus was ready to leave, despite my Mum's fears. Again we were driving quite a bit because we're trying to get through Europe quite fast so we can get on to Asia. We got to Camp Dzban (think Desban) in the Czech Republic (formerly Czechoslovakia; a word I just love to type). The first thing we saw was a woman watching us from a caravan who closed the curtains and drove to another part of the field when we waved at her: not the best welcome and a huge contrast to the woman who was waving and pulling faces at us out of a window as we left Hermann's campsite. The first night was bitterly people-doubling-up-to-share-body-warmth, don't-forget-your-thermals cold. I just about managed on my own with a pair of thermals under my pyjamas.

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Comments

[Marc Knight]

Warm much?
"People-doubling-up-to-share-body-warmth"-cold, sounds like someones having fun... ;)

[Ariadne]

Ha
I was on my own, having privacy; which is better after being on a bus with them all day every day.