6th August 2018 - Veseli and the palace.

-
Kms today = 189 (to Vienna)
Kms to date = 6,573

Colin was riding to Vienna to meet up with Morag but I stayed in Southern Bohemia. Danny and I left Telc just after Colin. We only had around 80kms to do to the village of Veseli but even then we managed to get caught up in the dreaded roadworks. We eventually arrived at Danny's cousin Pavel and his wife Helena's house at around midday. We had lunch in the garden with Pavel. Helena generously offered to do our washing as I had run  out of clean gear. We rode the bikes to our flash accommodation in the next village called Zisov. It is a restored farmhouse with everything that opens and shuts. Helena's daughter Eva and husband Peter own it.

Eva and Peter our hosts at the "Farmhouse". Eva seriously injured her knee hence the crutches.
It is their retirement house. They would only be early to mid forties now??? That's planning !!! Pavel came round and drove us to the pub in town. After a while Danny's brother Max arrived and joined us. He had ridden from Prague on his triumph roadster.
In the pub,  left to right, Max,  Pavlik and Helena.
After a few beers Helena drove  us back to the farmhouse. In Czech you can't drive with any alcohol. Pavel rode Helena's bike back to their place. Apparently they don't breath test cyclists. The farmhouse is an amazing place. It has a big courtyard around which there are various buildings. The building at the front by the main gate is actually a Distillery where Peter distills the fruit in his garden and anybody else's fruit who wants their own hooch.
The front gate of the "Farmhouse" with the usual suspects.
Distillery to the right.
The building we stayed in had full blown bar on the ground floor. The sleeping accommodation was upstairs in the roof space. Luckily we had air-conditioning in our room as the weather was still very hot.
The Distillery from inside the compound.

Danny, Peter and Max inside the Distillery. 
Our room is the top right window. 

Even got undercover bike parking!!
Helena turned up on her bicycle with our washing all neatly pressed. Very impressed.
Later Danny, Max, Pavel and I went to dinner in a restaurant in a hotel near the two rivers that flow through Veseli. After we got back to the "Farmhouse" Max's son Martin and Danny's friend Jirka arrived. I was sharing the air-conditioned room with Max, Martin and Jirka. Danny had a bed in the other room which wasn't air-conditioned. We had a few beers at the local pub down the road and hit the sack.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Bikes on the Isle of Man

-
Image
  Vincent Comet Runabout Nicely Modified 1990 "Red Wing" Honda RC30 600cc 2 stroke Scott Squirrel at Braddon Bridge Couple of  Crazy Yellow BSA's My first motorcycle in 1967 was one of these Honda C72's The owner of this Turbo-charged Hyabusa claimed 400 hp Classic Triton at Kirkmichael Kick-starting a BSA "Goldie" at Kirkmichael Honda RC45 on the Douglas seafront Bultaco Metralla at the Bungalow NSU Quickly Moped - Alan's first motorcycle. The original Postie Bike - BSA Bantam in red. Douglas Dragonfly outside Murrays Motorcycle Museum Bimota Kawasaki at Ballaugh Elgi Vincent at Ballaugh MV 350 Twin at Calf of Man Nice Norton International at Brandywell   
Read more

30th August Ballasholague Farm, Isle of Man

-
Image
Kms today 112 Kms to date 10,299 We started the day at the Ramsey Sprint an 1/8 mile track along the seafront.  The bikes were amazing from a 50cc step thru to a turbocharged nitro breathing Hyabusa.  The most impressive bike was a record breaking BSA Bantam with a big bore and reed valve conversion.  It went like a rocket! A very special BSA Bantam launched off the line at the Ramsey Sprint Then we had lunch at the Ginger Hall Hotel and carried on to the ARE Motorcycle museum in Kirkmichael.  This was in a private house and the VMCC were there too on a run, so the car park was full of interesting bikes too.  The collection was all British, lots of Greeves and included a Hesketh, the ill-fated 1000cc V twin produced by Lord Hesketh and a couple of DMW's.  A DMW Cortina - Betty might have built the wheels on this one We then went on to Murray's Motorcycle Museum near the airport south of Douglas.  This had a much wider variety of bi...
Read more

3rd September Twyford

-
Image
Kms today 442 Kms to date 11,016 We got up to a forecast of rain all the way back to Twyford.  But when you looked at it more closely there were rain bands and with luck we might be able to miss most of them.  We left at 8 and headed down the M6, which was relatively free of traffic.  We branched off along the M56 to Chester to avoid the traffic and wound our way down A41 to Whitchurch for refreshments.  It was raining off and on all the way so we were a bit bedraggled.  Then on through Telford and Kidderminster.  Once we got there we let Mabel take us home.  It's too difficult to program the interesting routes on the GPS and it takes us along motorways mostly.  These were not my favourite routes but going other ways really needs Google Maps and a lot of stopping to check the map. We got back to Pennfields at 3.  Margaret shouted a birthday dinner for Alan and I at the George and Dragon in Wargrave.  Alan's birthday is tomorrow but ...
Read more