Day 6 - Novo Bystrice to Vranov nad Dyji

An overnight thunderstorm has brought much lower temperatures today.  As we set off this morning we realised again that when bike touring you often end up in the right place at the wrong time.  Tonight there is a cycling criterium race round the streets of Novo Bystrice but we will be miles away by then, we also passed near an interesting looking museum near Klasters giving a history of the border defences from the Second World War, but we were there an hour before it opened but we did get a look at some of the bunkers.

We then passed by the ruined castle at Landsteiner and stopped off at about 10:30 for a snack in the beautiful medieval town of Slavonice. Fortunately the restaurant we chose had English translations including such delicacies as "Butcher's Dollops" and "chop of Mrs Katarina (fine and mild for ladies)", we both settled for Meat loaf!  We also had a wander round the shops where Sandra very nearly bought a new pair of breeks.

We then caught up with another cyclist we had seen a couple of times since leaving Prague, Alex was from St Petersburg and was riding the same route as us From Prague to Vienna on the heaviest laden bike in Eastern Europe.  We cycled with Alex as far as Vranov nad Dyji where, after a look around the castle, we split off for the campsite whilst he headed off for a further 30km to his destination for the night.

The temperature today was much more pleasant for cycling, and as you can see from the profile on Strava our route was predominantly downhill today, Although we still managed to do 3200 ft of climbing!

Miles today 49 https://www.strava.com/activities/383249705

Total miles 189