From Prague to Bamberg

We had our first serious crisis, when we had to find out of Prague.

This time we didnt had such a good map of the city, and that was a disaster.

Prague is a nightmare to find away from - in the right direction - if you dont have any knowledge or idea of how it is.

For some reason we managed to circel 22 km around, before we atleast found the southwestern way out, which was the direction we needed.

But our sorrows werent all over yet, because suddenly the road we were driving on, were stopped because of roadworkers, and that confused us so much that we again turned out in a wrong angle.

It feelt like a big joke, and we yelled out in the air " this game is no fun anymore"!!

....and then something incredible happened!

As our mood were on absolute lowlevel and everything seemed hopeless, an angle were sent to guide us!

An angel who spoke both english and the czech language - who were also on a bike and were going west like us.... and the best thing was, that he had the perfect map for finding the way through the landscapes without the need of going to the big roads.

Petr was his name, and he sort of planned everything down to the most minor detail - when he offered that we could just hang on to him, we didnt hesitated to say yes emmitately, and we followed in his slipstream all the way.

And my goodness, he knew exactly were the gasstations were and where we could find the good ( still existing) very cheap and friendly czech accomodations in the countrysides, which made a deep impact to us.

we paid the dinner for him that evening!

Next day we continued through everything but cities - up and down as it usually is in the czech. Our legs feelt like hard steel after driving the entire day on the wildest increases - the most extreme was 18 %.... which we decided to walk up at. The most amazing thing was, that there were actually towns around these extreme level increases. The people living there most be in a pretty good shape if they walk up and down those roads everyday!

We broke our speedrecord once again ( when it went down) 57, 8 km pr hour is it now..... we dont think, that we need to brake that record again ever, its to dangerous.

as the darkness fell on we had to say goodbye to Petr the great - who helped us so much when we really needed it.

THANK YOU PETR, YOU WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN!!

We settled for the night in the town Kynsperk nad Ohri, where we ate at cafe restaurant Slunecnice ( means " sunflower).

Nice atmosphere - enough food ( ! ) and of course great czech beers.

The next day, we followed a crazy guy listening to his ipod while driving his bicycle all the way into the town Cheb - close to the german border.

in that town we decided to use our last czech coins on food and coffee, while it rained outside.

we met a guy from Netherland who was on his way into czech and further to Israel (!) he gave us a very good and detailed map of that area we had to go into, since he didnt needed it anymore - we warned him about the czech wavy landscapes, which may be a shock for person from a very flat land... he seemed optimistic though.

In Germany Bernards bike suddenly started to continue its suicidal tendencies just before we reached Bayereuth. Nothing happened though...not before next day on the road to Bamberg

15 km away from the citycenter it really said BAMBERG in the street when his last tyre exploded ! It rained cats and dogs and since the weather didnt seem to show any intention of a little change to the better, we decided to take our punishment, and walked the rest of the way into Bamberg - a fabulous, fantastic, beautifull gem of which kind we didnt know existed at all.

a town at the size of Roskilde or Zadar but with 9 ( nine!!) local breweries and with very old citycenter placed on an island in the middle of the Main/Donau canals!

a town we will write much more about as soon as possible.