Driving to Prague in late June - Any tips...
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Made it out of Prague and Czech today and to Colditz.
Pretty town. Everything you'd expect. Timed the run to Colditz to get on the Extended Tour at 2pm. Fantastic and incredibly interesting and informative, brought it to life, especially the tunnelling and the glider in the attic! €30 for a 2 hour tour for two people was well worth it.
And the temperature is only 27c, so not melting!
Now for German beer and food...
Pretty town. Everything you'd expect. Timed the run to Colditz to get on the Extended Tour at 2pm. Fantastic and incredibly interesting and informative, brought it to life, especially the tunnelling and the glider in the attic! €30 for a 2 hour tour for two people was well worth it.
And the temperature is only 27c, so not melting!
Now for German beer and food...
SELON said:
Made it out of Prague and Czech today and to Colditz.
Pretty town. Everything you'd expect. Timed the run to Colditz to get on the Extended Tour at 2pm. Fantastic and incredibly interesting and informative, brought it to life, especially the tunnelling and the glider in the attic! €30 for a 2 hour tour for two people was well worth it.
And the temperature is only 27c, so not melting!
Now for German beer and food...
Must go and do thatPretty town. Everything you'd expect. Timed the run to Colditz to get on the Extended Tour at 2pm. Fantastic and incredibly interesting and informative, brought it to life, especially the tunnelling and the glider in the attic! €30 for a 2 hour tour for two people was well worth it.
And the temperature is only 27c, so not melting!
Now for German beer and food...
IIRC its a hotel as well?
Hi Mikey,
It's a youth hostelling place from what I could tell. You may well be able to get a nicer room there though, but don't recall seeing anything on booking.com. The village is beautiful, for some reason that I can't recall, I chose not to book in the village. The hotel I chose was a nice 20 minute drive away. Very nice place.
All hotels have been very good. Chose luckily and well for food, room and parking and it's all been very sensibly priced. Booking.com and Tripadvisor with a little bit of guesswork and luck!
Bit of bother getting into final hotel tonight. The bridge across the moat and the Schloss' gate house was a little tricky to negotiate!
Apparently Deep Purple are having dinner with me tonight (given that it's just them and us in the hotel tonight ...).
It's a youth hostelling place from what I could tell. You may well be able to get a nicer room there though, but don't recall seeing anything on booking.com. The village is beautiful, for some reason that I can't recall, I chose not to book in the village. The hotel I chose was a nice 20 minute drive away. Very nice place.
All hotels have been very good. Chose luckily and well for food, room and parking and it's all been very sensibly priced. Booking.com and Tripadvisor with a little bit of guesswork and luck!
Bit of bother getting into final hotel tonight. The bridge across the moat and the Schloss' gate house was a little tricky to negotiate!
Apparently Deep Purple are having dinner with me tonight (given that it's just them and us in the hotel tonight ...).
SELON said:
Hi Mikey,
It's a youth hostelling place from what I could tell. You may well be able to get a nicer room there though, but don't recall seeing anything on booking.com. The village is beautiful, for some reason that I can't recall, I chose not to book in the village. The hotel I chose was a nice 20 minute drive away. Very nice place.
All hotels have been very good. Chose luckily and well for food, room and parking and it's all been very sensibly priced. Booking.com and Tripadvisor with a little bit of guesswork and luck!
Bit of bother getting into final hotel tonight. The bridge across the moat and the Schloss' gate house was a little tricky to negotiate!
Apparently Deep Purple are having dinner with me tonight (given that it's just them and us in the hotel tonight ...).
You may be rightIt's a youth hostelling place from what I could tell. You may well be able to get a nicer room there though, but don't recall seeing anything on booking.com. The village is beautiful, for some reason that I can't recall, I chose not to book in the village. The hotel I chose was a nice 20 minute drive away. Very nice place.
All hotels have been very good. Chose luckily and well for food, room and parking and it's all been very sensibly priced. Booking.com and Tripadvisor with a little bit of guesswork and luck!
Bit of bother getting into final hotel tonight. The bridge across the moat and the Schloss' gate house was a little tricky to negotiate!
Apparently Deep Purple are having dinner with me tonight (given that it's just them and us in the hotel tonight ...).
http://travel.aol.co.uk/2012/04/09/colditz-hotel-i...
I just recall TopGear doing it and presumed they wouldn't "slum" it IYKWIM
You on your own in a castle that is hard to access with Deep Purple and alcohol
I'd be very afraid
Edited by mikey k on Thursday 2nd July 21:57
It's an amazing place. Could spend many hours there. 'Extended tour' (2.5 hours) is recommended, time flies by and you could *happily* continue for another 5 hours.
A special mention... The SatNav has been excellent. It's much maligned but it's always got me there and avoided traffic well to boot.
Air con has held up well. (38c outside temp). Suffice to say that the drinking water in the car, after leaving it in the sun today at Dortmund Stadium for a few hours, was too hot to drink (must've been close to boiling!) after being sat in the sun but gave it a minute of two after start up and was ok. God knows what the wine etc will be like after that! The chocolates will be slurry sadly!
Hopefully the tunnel is tolerable tomorrow! It's been a wonderful journey so far. I wish I could have spent a day more at each location to really enjoy then local areas but it's been fantastic as it is. The Aston has made it even more special, comfortable, fast, entertaining to drive around the man country roads, a talking point that innumerable people have enjoy and many commented on. Like the German chap in the van who caught up with me twice, first to ask how many horse power and then how many zylinders!
He loved the fact it had 12...
Driving into Czech was a little nervous at the start (no reason other than a comment made earlier) but had a great time there too! People polite, nice and helpful. Karlovy Vary - stunning little place.
All in all, the perfect journey with my 16 year old son. Grabbed him while he still wanted to go with his old dad!
I think he enjoyed it as well!!
Oh well, off to sleep now...haunted castle to negotiate and that rock band!
A special mention... The SatNav has been excellent. It's much maligned but it's always got me there and avoided traffic well to boot.
Air con has held up well. (38c outside temp). Suffice to say that the drinking water in the car, after leaving it in the sun today at Dortmund Stadium for a few hours, was too hot to drink (must've been close to boiling!) after being sat in the sun but gave it a minute of two after start up and was ok. God knows what the wine etc will be like after that! The chocolates will be slurry sadly!
Hopefully the tunnel is tolerable tomorrow! It's been a wonderful journey so far. I wish I could have spent a day more at each location to really enjoy then local areas but it's been fantastic as it is. The Aston has made it even more special, comfortable, fast, entertaining to drive around the man country roads, a talking point that innumerable people have enjoy and many commented on. Like the German chap in the van who caught up with me twice, first to ask how many horse power and then how many zylinders!
He loved the fact it had 12...
Driving into Czech was a little nervous at the start (no reason other than a comment made earlier) but had a great time there too! People polite, nice and helpful. Karlovy Vary - stunning little place.
All in all, the perfect journey with my 16 year old son. Grabbed him while he still wanted to go with his old dad!
I think he enjoyed it as well!!
Oh well, off to sleep now...haunted castle to negotiate and that rock band!
German countryside driving was very pleasant and sparsely populated roads...
Hotel nr Colditz ... Former blacksmiths yard...
Mohne Dam and Dortmund Stadium
Final stopover...
Home...almost...
1,800 miles of bugs washed off (mostly) this morning...still done less than 16k miles. Hardly run in.
Hotel nr Colditz ... Former blacksmiths yard...
Mohne Dam and Dortmund Stadium
Final stopover...
Home...almost...
1,800 miles of bugs washed off (mostly) this morning...still done less than 16k miles. Hardly run in.
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