Český Krumlov

Today we leave Prague and take a bus trip to Linz, stopping in Český Krumlov on the way. Český Krumlov is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. We’ll board the ship in Linz.

Our bus left at 9:15 am. Donna is happy for a slower day, as we’ve walked around 90,000 steps these past four days.

Our program director spent a portion of the bus ride talking about health care and education in this part of the world. He is from Croatia. One example, his ex-girlfriend has Lyme disease. He has a 17 1/2-year-old son with her. She needed an MRI, it was scheduled 456 days in the future via the free public system. One of her relatives is a butcher, 200 lbs of meat got the MRI done the next day through the private health care system.

Tour of Český Krumlov

Some buildings have murals painted on them.

The Town Hall has served as the town’s administrative center since 1597.

The Church of Saint Jošt was a Protestant church that was secularized in 1787. It is now a museum.

Saint John of Nepomuk, a 14th-century Bohemian priest and martyr, widely revered as the patron saint of Bohemia. There was a statue of him on the Charles Bridge in Prague that we saw yesterday.

In our free time after the tour we walked up to Castle.

There are some bears in the pits on either side of the entrance.

Some parts of the castle are free to visit and we don’t have a lot of time, since we also w

We ate lunch sitting outside at Restaurant Barvírna.

After lunch, it was back on the bus to continue on to Linz and to get on the ship. That involves waiting in line to get your picture taken for a boarding pass and then waiting for the crew to bring luggage to the room from the busses. There was a briefing on the ship and then dinner.