Travelling Around the Town

So... last Friday we didn't have school cuz of Easter, So I decided to invite a few American friends up to the Kralupy region to do a bit of some sightseeing. Near Kralupy are two really nice cheateaus. They arrived in Kralupy and we immediately boarded a bus bound for the small village of Veltrusy, which would be our only automotive transportation of the day. In Veltrusy is quite a beautiful chateau that has a really big park you can walk around and it's just really peaceful and pleasant. Here's a photo :

Next we decided to walk the 3 kilometer journey along the mighty Vltava River. The second chateau is in another village called Nelahozeves. This village is even more famously known as the birthplace of the famous Czech composer Antonin Dvorak. So by the time we had left Veltrusy, we were getting fairly hungry as it was high noon and the urge was upon us. But we didn't come across any kind of restaurant at all on our journey. We stopped at a rundown pub for a beer which tasted a bit on the extra yeasty side, but it did the trick for a bit. Here's a pic of us before we actually realized the atrocity about to be bestowed on the elite of mankind...

We continued walking a bit more and we came to where "I thought" we were supposed to cross the river. We had previously passed the car bridge, but i was almost certain that there was a big blue pedestrian bridge, and I was right... sorta. This bridge when we came to it was locked and had big signs saying "Forbidden" blah blah blah. Something about electricity and dangerous injuries. But it was what I was looking for, so we risked our lives and jumped over the door and very cautiously made our way to the other side.
This is us after we made the treacherous journey. Oh yea, if you don't know. The sign says "Entrance Forbidden. Dangerous Injury".


So all of our bodies made it across alive and luckily I can continue telling this story. But... unfortunately, it really doesn't get much more interesting. We made it to Nelahozeves and... well... remember how I told you that we were still looking for some good grubbin? We finally found a restaurant under the chateau, but it would have it that it just so happened to be closed this day until 5 or something horrible like that. And the other pub near it was closed and had a dog barkin its head off at us. So by this time I was feeling a bit sick and had a headache and life was just about suckin. (Here's a pic of me and my dissatisfied look after realizing that the truth of the matter was that food was not a luxury that we were going to have today. But we did the tour of the chateau and then we made the final 3 km walk back to Kralupy along the river on a trail and it was quite nice and the weather was amazing and we got back about 3 and went straight to a restaurant where we satisfied ourselves with abundance. I then went home and slept for a bit and i awoke and i was feeling much better :) It was great. Here's a pic of Nelahozeves to wind things up with.