snowy czech republic, CZ

at our way from the polish baltic sea back home to munich, we've visited few sites in the czech republic (bohemia + moravia), CZ:

• nachod (moravia) ~ we have been to nachod castle 3 years ago, today we've visited nachod's city center
• brandys nad labe = brandeis an der elbe (bohemia) - a small city with a quite nice castle and quite ugly market square at the labe river (elbe) ... btw, brandeis could be translated from german as 'burning ice' => just see the pictures of the 'icy ice' road between brandeis and liblice and our car in the trench (graben) below ⛄🚗🍀
• liblice castle (bohemia) - my wife liked our stay here last summer that much that i couldnt book any other accomodation for the stop over. this time we have been in the main castle building, so i could at least to some point experience s.th. new here 😄

ice on the road close before our final destination liblice castle 😨

it will be dark soon ...

liblice castle (hotel)

marble hall, liblice castle, CZ

restaurant

nachod, market square

nachod, town hall

do you see the nachod castle above the city?

brandys nad labe ~ brandeis an der elbe, CZ

labe river (elbe)

market square + town hall, brandys ~ brandeis

some village on the road between brandys and liblice

babylon, sumava (böhmerwald) mountains, CZ-DE border

back home in bavaria ...

3,000+ km in 3 weeks? heaven & hell ... let's recapiltulate the other stops:

• carlsbad - karlsbad, CZ
• wojanow castle (schloß schildau) in lower silesia, PL
• lodz + ruda bugaj + alexandrow lodzki, central poland, PL
• swiece (schwetz an der weichsel) ~ castle of the german order / teutonic knights at the wisla river (zamek krzyzacki, deutschordenschloss) + nice city center. anyway, if you can, visit better the  just 100 km distand teutonic marienburg (malbork) castle 😉
• leba, baltics, PL
• tczew nad wisla ~ dierschau an der weichsel, PL
• kluczbork ~ kreuzburg ~ creutzburg ~ creuzburg in upper silesia, PL
• moszna castle ~ schloss moschen (hotel) - close to opole (oppeln), upper silesia, PL

very few more pictures from liblice + brandys + nachod  here.

nachod castle, CZ

what was on our agenda between kudowa (silesia) and krummhübel / karpacz (silesia)? the beautiful and after the summer season currently reconstructed castle of nachod in the northeast czech republic, region called moravia (morava, mähren). btw, my grandma was born and grown-up in moravia, in the city called sternberg in the olomouc (olmütz) area some 150 km southeast of nachod, you know? well, that is for sure one of the reasons why i like the czech republic so much. the few others are their ice-hockey team, beer, beautiful women and many, many friends + relatives i have there. in case you did not know, there are many people from slovakia who live in the czech republic. most of them probably students who studied at the czech universities (prague, brno & co.) and stayed to work there afterwards ...

nachod castle

source: wikipedia DE

outher yards of nachod castle

entering the inner yards of nachod castle

hronov, northeast czeck republic, CZ

what a beautiful school building, isn't it?

bell tower, hronov, CZ

primda (pfraumberg) castle ruine, western chech republic CZ

more pictures here.