Southern Moravia in August

The last week of August was a week full of sport. We spent three nights in Hrušovany nad Jevišovkou in a lovely hotel Penzion Monika and three days biking around Hrušovany. Southern Moravia is wonderful and great for biking - lots of roads for bikes, lots of places to see, lots of wine... :)

On the first day, we arrived, went for lunch and then decided to go for a shorter bike ride. We went from Hrušovany to Jevišovka, Drnholec... then something went wrong and we ended up in Litobratřice (I actually don't remember anymore where we had been going originally :)), then Břežany (and its wind power plant), Pravice and back to Hrušovany (the route's map is HERE). It was easy and short (32 kilometres). Then we went for dinner and had some wine from the hotel's wine cellar and started planning our next trip...

Day 2... By the end of the day, I was really surprised that I can still walk. We did almost 99 kilometres, which is a loooot when you realize that either of us hadn't biked for quite some time. It was a great trip, though. We biked through the Lednicko-Valtický areál and everyone who's been there knows how beautiful it's there. It took us some 5,5 hours. And it was worth it! The weather was really good, too, not too hot, but sunny so we enjoyed it as much as we could.
The route is here (almost):











In the evening, we went for dinner with some friends and then were looking forward to bed after such a long bike ride. :)

On day three we were going for a shorter ride. And we ended up with doing 76 kilometres. Oh well, that's what happens when you plan something carefully. :) It wasn't as good as Lednice-Valtice but it was good as well. It was a little warmer, we might have been a little tired, too. We learnt about a specific Nové Mlýny group that we had had know idea it exists. Nové Mlýny fishermen. Sitting in their tents with friends and beers, it seemed they don't really care about the fish. Some of them, however, thought that they were so funny that they had to comment on every biking girl who passed them. They weren't funny.
Anyway, we biked around the whole Nové Mlýny reservoir, didn't go to Dívčí hrady (because you can't get there on bike and it was pretty steep... :))

We made it back to Hrušovany (after going through Drnholec, Brod nad Dyjí, Pasohlávky, Strachotín, Nové Mlýny, Milovice, Pavlov and Dolní Věstonice) - the route is HERE - and relaxed... What else do you think we should be doing? :)

Day four was the day when we had to leave. I would have loved it to stay but we couldn't. We got on the train again and went all the way to Olomouc where Jirka met Honza and left with him and I - not having enough of biking - decided to bike from Olomouc to Prostějov. That was pretty easy. :)

And why am I writing about this? Because photos are coming soon! :)