Best Laid Plans....

Firstly, I must apologise for Chris' spelling of Czech. Which is poor to say the least.

It was quite strange in France. Normally, you just turn up, and people realise you are English idiots and talk to you in English. Not in France though, I had to dust off my French GCSE to order us beer and pizza all round. I even managed to get Gary one without mushrooms (sans Champignon!) which made me feel quite impressed with myself!

Driving on the wrong side of the road, whilst a scary thought, isn't that bad in reality (you get used to it quite quick - it helps being in your own car). However, navigating around a Czech city in the dark IS scary. I was navigating at that point and Sebok was driving, but it had gone dark and I could hardly read the map. Anyways, once we finally made it into the town cente (after a few wrong turns into some rather colourful areas!) we found out that the route Google Maps had sent us on was closed for roadworks and I had to divert us round the City. It doesn't help that they have buses and trams that are driving all over the roads trying to confuse you. And the roads are made of cobbles so you can't feel your spine. Sebok had a bit of an argument with a tram trying to overtake it, and lost miserably ;-) But finally, at about 10pm (after 13 hours of driving) we made it to the hostel, found a lovely little cocktail bar and had some drinkies and a good nights sleep!

We're 1,100 miles into the journey now, and we have today off to rest. Tomorrow we will be going to Bratislava in Slovakia, hopefully we will be able to post more then.

Cya