Day 12: Cesky Krumlov to Frymburk

We made fast progress leaving CK along a road that was occasionally busy, but ran along the river Vltava. Loads of friendly rafters drifting in the other direction waved to us on the way. Some of them had ingeniously tied a couple of rafts together and were having a full blown picnic, including a special rubber ring for a crate of beer in tow - these Czechs...

We passed another castle town - Rozmburk, formerly owned by the old Austrian Rosenberg family - before heading straight on to the Lipno lake up around 725 metres. We felt a little uderchallenged (since the weather was good, i.e. dry and no wind) until we reached a treacherous mountain bike trail that was unkind to the more sensitive parts of our bodies.

But we reached the pretty townlet Frymburk by 4ish, taking a ferry over to the other side of the lake. There was a nice bar on the water where we had a working dinner planning our future route.


It was pleasing to think that all this water would travel over 700 km back in exactly the same way as we had cycled, past Prague, Dresden and Berlin, before heading on to Magdeburg, Hamburg and the North Sea.



Tomorrow we will be leaving the Vltava, going over the hills and meeting up with the Danube, which flows into the Black Sea, so we will be crossing a major European watershed.

Distance: 56 km
Running total: 722 km (yes, we survived Friday the 13th, the 666th km and our 13th stage without any probs)