Fri 24.Jun.2011
Znojmo, South Moravia, Czech Republic
Znojmo, Czech, Republic
Where I just spent a fun afternoon sightseeing through the nearby
Moravian countryside with my local host, owner of the Penzion
Grant, as classy a B&B as you could ask for.
My loft room here has a nice view over the Dyje River
valley.
Also has real taste and pizzaz in the furnishings, and a nice
English-speaking couple who own the little Bed & Breakfast.
This could be the nicest accomodation for the money that I have
found in these wanderings, at least if the wi-fi signal were
stronger, and didn't keep disconnecting from my puter. Or maybe I
am disconnecting from it. I'll have to try it with Windows instead
of Ubuntu, and see whether it still happens.
I'll sort out today's pictures, and hopefully post some later. This
set is from last Wednesday, during a sunny interval in a
mixed-weather day. Yester(Thurs)day was not mixed; it was all rainy
and blah. But I digress.
I discovered this old-looking stuff at the end of my street. There
is a sign at the entrance that I cannot make head nor tail of.
If I find out who and when it comes from, and what it may be, I'll
let you know.
The old ruins above feed into a children's playground, which feeds
onto ...
... a major plaza with a nice eatery that I have used, The
Golden Cauldron.
That flashy tower up the street belongs to the City Hall.
That barbed wire is on the wall of an apparently-defunct old
brewery. More elegiac than sinister.
In some ways there doesn't seem to be much tourist substance to the
town, but it is a pleasant enough place to walk around.
It gets a lot of day trippers from Vienna, who mostly vanish before
dark.
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