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Author: Rob Ainsley

Czechia 9: Frýdek-Místek to Třinec

Posted on 22 May 202516 June 2025 by Rob Ainsley

As Robert Burns said, the best laid plans of cycle tourers gang aft agley. We finished the Czech End to End today, though things ganged a bit agley. We didn’t have time to explore all that Frýdek-Místek has to offer – we must come back one day when we have a spare ten minutes –…

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Czechia 8: Olomouc to Frýdek-Místek

Posted on 21 May 202515 June 2025 by Rob Ainsley

Another terrible night. I wouldn’t wish long-term seafood poisoning on too many people (although I can think of a few populist politicians). Breakfast was only apple juice and water. I clearly wasn’t going to be cycling all the way to our target of Frýdek-Místek today, our penultimate day. But I managed half or so in…

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Czechia 7: Brno to Olomouc

Posted on 20 May 202514 June 2025 by Rob Ainsley

Things were looking up this morning: my breakfast stayed in, and I quickly got out, reversing the situation of the last few days post-food-poisoning. We followed the path north from Brno along the Svitava River, a lovely little trail on an untrafficked lane that hugged the woodsy waterside. Eventually we rejoined the road, and Nigel…

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Czechia 6: Kuklík to Brno

Posted on 19 May 202514 June 2025 by Rob Ainsley

It was a dishcloth morning: damp, grey, cold, with recent ones unsettlingly indistinguishable from much older ones. Anyway, untrafficked and unfenced lanes trickled their way through farmland and woods, up and then down, flat and then down and then up. At times I felt stranded in some sort of eternally repeating GIF. Not unpleasantly, though….

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Czechia 5: Kolín to Kuklík

Posted on 18 May 202511 June 2025 by Rob Ainsley

A full day’s cycling today, involving a lot of hills, and Czechia’s most bizarre garden. I managed to ride the whole rather challenging route thanks to (1) a long sleep last night and (2) bland supermarket food, curated to not further upset a stomach chaotically overturned by those radioactive mussels in Prague. Heading out of…

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Czechia 4: Prague to Kolín

Posted on 17 May 202511 June 2025 by Rob Ainsley

You never know what a bike tour is going to throw up. This morning, unfortunately, it was the contents of my stomach. At 7am, after a sleepless, writhing and uncomfortable night, I frantically shooed Nigel out of the bathroom, where he was doing what you’d expect – working on his bike – and acknowledge the…

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Czechia 3: Křivoklát to Prague

Posted on 16 May 202510 June 2025 by Rob Ainsley

The super-simplified gloss on why Czecho- split from -Slovakia in 1992 is down to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Czechs were essentially Austro, and the Slovaks Hungarian. Clearly there’s far more to it than that; argue with me in the comments below. (NB Comments not available on this page.) But, in terms of guesthouse breakfast, today…

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Czechia 2: Karlovy Vary to Křivoklát

Posted on 15 May 202510 June 2025 by Rob Ainsley

The serious stuff started today. Our destination promised the great hat-trick of Czech features: cheap beer in local bars; a fine historic castle; and the ř, one of the world’s rarest and hardest sounds. (Imagine saying a trilled ‘rrr’, and ‘sh’, while stifling a sneeze. But whatever you do, don’t try to actually say it.)…

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Czechia 1: Cheb to Karlovy Vary

Posted on 14 May 20258 June 2025 by Rob Ainsley

The Czechs have wandered about the continent during my lifetime. When I grew up they were in Eastern Europe. After the fall of Communism they were transported to Western Europe. Now, as Czechia, they have resettled in the heart of the EU. All without actually moving a centimetre. The country’s vibrant intellectual and artistic tradition…

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North Ferriby: Back to the Suture

Posted on 25 April 20255 May 2025 by Rob Ainsley

I’m recovering from scheduled hand surgery, which has resulted in forty or so stitches in my left palm and little finger. It looks like Boris Karloff’s attempts to sew a mailbag on deck in a storm. So for a couple of weeks I’m having to take things easy. Which means essential journeys only. Such as…

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