In just about an hour we are leaving for the weekend, driving down to Cesky Krumlov and we plan to go canoing, so I’m writing this this morning and I’m really looking forward, and I’ll write a blog tomorrow, if it’s possible at all.
We’ll be back on Sunday, I’ll resume my normal habits, but the weekend is the weekend and the wild river calls.
Cesky Krumlov
Actually, I’m pretty sure ‘wild river’ is a gross exaggeration. They say it’s a 3 hour journey, but we are slow canoers, so when they say 3, it’s probably 5 for us. A lot depends on the river and water level, too. Two years ago, we wound up dragging the canoe over rocky bits many times. It slowed us down and wore us out. Last year we had none of that.
This will be a first for us on this particular stretch of the Vltava, although I’ve been to Krumlov a couple of times. It totally deserves its UNESCO status. I think it will be the first time for the kids, but it takes more than a cool castle and a beautiful garden to impress them. They are Czech.
I plan to get some reading done, just in the car. I’m reading two books at the moment: a series of essays by a guy who taught English in China, and one that was a free download on Kindle, a bunch of Dwarves following a magical map to find the ancient city of Nar, and it’s got some cool dragons in it but…there are oh, so many buts. It’s what happens when the floodgates are open and anyone can write anything and people like me will read it because it’s free, it does not have the zing, the magic, the essence of otherworld that Tolkien and Rowling managed to pull off so brilliantly. It’s got some clever lines, and 3 or 4 characters who I would not be upset to see hurled into a volcano, but that’s about it so I’ll probably take the other one, the paper one.
I plan to do some writing, just in my head. I’ll take along a pen and paper, just in case. But not in the canoe.
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