Cesky Krumlov

Today was a quiet one at the mill after 2 days ooot and abooot.

Yesterday we visited Cesky Krumlov, which Wikipedia tells us (she said, lazily) "a small city in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic, best known for the fine architecture and art of the historic old town and Český Krumlov Castle. Old Český Krumlov is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and was given this status along with the historic Prague castle district."

I call it a very picturesque and fascinating medieval town crammed with gorgeous original buildings lining winding cobbled streets, loads of shops full of lekker tourist items, books, art supplies and of course marionettes, and a place where I lost Raph for the longest 20 minutes ever. But he wasn't lost, I just thought he was. However it was still scary running through confusing alleys and into every shop looking for that one familiar face in a crowd of non-English speaking weekenders. Big up to Stan & Franny for remaining calm and helping me search...

We enjoyed lunch together and made quite a dent in our 'gift buying' list.

Afterwards we went to collect Emma and Jan from the summer camp they'd been at and watched a play (in Czech, 3 scenes from a CS Lewis book) and ate some roasted pig.

A great day all together :-)

This morning was hot hot hot then we had a wonderful, long thunderstorm with warm rain (i love that) I sat in the garden in the rain watching the chickens.

One of which I later watched being cut open and cooked for broth.

Uhuh. True story.

Aaah country life :-)

:-)