Flat grey skies settled over the renaissance rooftops and colourfully painted facades of Roman Wels […]
Austria – ‘arrive and revive’
Crossing a border in the west of the EU heralds little attention from the authorities […]
Leaving the Czech Republic
After a wet few days heading towards the Austrian border, our last stop was to […]
Český Krumlov
It was the forecast last day of summer. The high blue skies, daytime temperatures of […]
Telč
Further south and on border of Bohemia in the west and Moravia in the east […]
Kutná Hora
Every guide book to the Czech Republic opens with pages of detail about Prague. The […]
Crossing into the Czech Republic
The border crossing to the Czech Republic was friendly and efficient at 10am on a […]
Spa towns of the Kłodzko region
Daytime temperatures were spiralling up into the 30s and high pressure was set to squat […]
Wrocław
Wrocław is one of those Polish cities which has passed backwards and forwards between the […]
Oświęcim (Auschwitz)
Auschwitz is notorious as a concentration camp for Jews during World War II but it […]