Internet access is scarce here, so updates are few and far between. There are Internet cafés here and there, of course, but Eloïse keeps us from going to them. Travelling with a baby is quite hard work; infinitely doable, but hard work.
After spending time in the Central Bohemian town of Kutná Hora and then doing much hiking in East Bohemia, we drove down to Olomouc in North Moravia. This really is a fantastic town, and relatively undiscovered by foreign tourists. I would write at length about what makes the town so great, but I'm borrowing the receptionist's laptop in our hotel, so I have to keep this relatively brief.
Because Internet access is proving so infrequent for us, I'm keeping a diary of our travels on my own laptop and will publish it when we return.
Since I last wrote, we have overnighted in Kutná Hora, Jičín, Teplice nad Metují and Olomouc. Each of those was for two nights, except for Kutná Hora. We've been doing a lot of hiking, which has yielded spectacular scenery, but also been very tiring. That's the net result of dragging Eloïse 's carcass up and over hill after hill. It's been well worth it, though; the experience has been very rewarding.
Tomorrow, we head for Žilina, over the border in Slovakia. We expect the countryside to get wilder now, as we gradually head north-east to the mountain range of the High Tatras.
We're not saying goodbye to Czechia for long, however. In a few weeks, we'll be back here again towards the end of our trip to sample South Moravia, South Bohemia and West Bohemia.