Cesky Krumlov

Up early we made our way further south on the Nlatava River to the town of Cesky Krumlov. We found Kemp Nove Spoli located on the river. We were quite excited about camping on a beautiful river but found the campground a little strange – big concrete slab with 1 or 2 vans parked on it, but hey it was cheap! Officially the cheapest so far – the equivalent of 7euro!

 After parking and locking away all of our things (the campground was a bit of a thoroughfare along the river) we walked into town.

Cesky Krumlov

It was a cute little town, all cobblestoned, with bridges crossing backwards and forwards across the river. Even better there was a local festival on and groups of children dressed in traditional costumes performing dances.

Kid performing the traditional Czech dances - the boys

...and the girls

 Further in the main town square there were market stalls with local produce, beer, grilled meats, chees, fried potatoes and crepes very similar to those in Prague so we figured it must have been the same type of harvest festival.

We decided to come back here for dinner but first we had a date with the Cesky Krumlov castle up on top of the hill overlooking the old town. 

I took this pic for all of the artists in my family

and because I thought this was cool

The streets on the way to the castle

Crossing one of the many bridges

We were surprised to be greeted with signs as we walked over the main bridge saying ‘Do not feed the bears”. Sure enough there were bears living in the castle moat. What better way to keep out invaders, forget water, fill your moat with bears – the Czechs are definitely thinkers!

The bears in the castle moat

More bears... there were heaps

View from the way up

Peek-a-boo

After admiring the view over the castle walls we made our way back into the old town square, filled with locals and tourists (mainly American and Japanese) alike gathering for the food, beer and concert that was beginning. 

Dave likes sausages

SO MUCH MEAT!

We ate a lovely traditional Czech dinner of creamed beef (roast beef gravy and cream) and a chicken parmy-like dish. We finished it off with Nutella crepes in the market before rolling our way back to the campground.

Czech chicken parmy

Creamed beef and dumplings AND a choccy milkshake!

Not one to let any chocolate go to waste

Here we thought we’d try our luck getting wifi in the bar (I was doubtful) and we were pleasantly surprised with the best wifi of the whole trip! I managed to do 8 blogs in 1 ½ hours – an official record!