3 months with 3 monkeys (or How to travel Europe with children.) : Novosedly - Cesky Krumlov - Klenovice

Krumlov Castle

Seeing as we have been in Cesky Krumlov for 4 days now we thought it best if we went and checked it during the daytime rather than just at nightime.

The town itself is a picture postcard of little houses, buildings, churches and a castle and very picturesque.

We walked around the town browsing a few shops and picking up some knick-knacks before stopping in at the torture museum. That was interesting but a little more graphic than the boys bargained for with some recordings of people screaming and some re-enactments which boded well for when they went to bed that night.

Krumlov Street

We tried to get inside the castle after that but it was closed so instead we walked around the courtyards and enjoyed the view of the town.
There was a tower but the wind was blowing and it was freezing so only Harry and I went up for a look. Took my gloves off to take some photos but after a minute or so I thought my fingers were going to fall off so we went back down the stairs.

Drove home after that as we were going for dinner at my Czech friends house for a visit about half an hour way. First things first though we let off some more crackers and we blew a plastic bottle to smithereens which the kids (and I) thought was hilarious.

Torture museum

Jumped in the car to drive off to our friends house when we started to see snow falling. Ever since Montenegro we've been wanting to see more snow until I'd done some internet research. We'd found out that it's illegal to drive a car without winter tires (which we don't have) from the 1st of November through to April or so. Not only that if you happen to have an accident then your insurance can be voided.

Bloody brilliant.

Anyway it was very light and being well versed in the Australian way we took the 'she'll be right' attitude and set off.

Got to our hosts house after half an hour and we had a nice afternoon with a couple of beers and some food. After a bit Jan took us out into the forest to show us where he does some rock climbing and a bit of the local scenery.

Castle square

Hardly sight-seeing weather but he didn't seem to mind and who are we to argue.

We got back to his house, said goodbye and thanked them for their hospitality and boarded the firecracker express. Found another empty paddock on the way home and set some rockets, bungers and our 16 tube, one kilo cracker off.

The latter being an absolute beauty which was something straight out of a display that you'd see at home at some event.