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Campsite

Next planned stop was medieval Prague, now a popular tourist city. We managed to book a camp site on the train line to the city centre.

We planned to stay for 5 nights, but the weather was almost always heavy rain, and the site was so flooded and muddy that there was no point in trying to erect the awning. The site restaurant was open for a good supper though!

Visit to Prague city (Saturday September 14th)

Finding a 6 hour window without rain on the weather app, we took the train into Prague.

The castle area was huge, but still full of tourists. The soldiers marched as the band played (from upstairs windows, for some reason):

Prague was clearly both charming and impressive, but we left the city feeling drained, cold and jostled. There were the expected groups of stag and hen partiers, but also large groups of tourists of different nationalities being led by tour guides. This mass of people resulted in crowded pavements and noisy restaurants. One day was enough for us.

We then looked at the weather forecast and the news, and found out about Storm Boris. This extreme weather event has claimed the lives of at least 21 souls across Poland, Romania, Austria and Czechia. As I write this it is heading towards Italy. It became clear to us that we should relocate, so we checked the weather apps and chose to retreat back to the familiar territory of Baden-Wurttemberg in Germany.