Pisek – Czech Republic.

Tuesday 15 th October 2024

Day 32

This morning we walked back into Cesky to view the areas we hadn’t seen the evening before. The first load of coach trippers were there at the same time as us, they were from Hong Kong very pleasant but didn’t care about your needs to take photos and look at the buildings.

This is the gateway into the castle courtyard, with a few members of the coach party, sadly Layla wasn’t allowed any further so we didn’t get to walk over the bridge I mentioned yesterday.

In a display of one upmanship the owners decided not have a water filled moat but have bears instead, their living conditions didn’t look too good.

We descended from this point and wended our way around numerous streets as I said yesterday the town is built around a river.

The 3d effect on many of the buildings is achieved by carving patterns into the wall. The shop owner fussing Layla, one of many people today and I’m not sure what this figure depicts but he has horns.

This is the view that greeted us when we stopped at Pisek.

Pisek isn’t particularly a tourist town, it’s known for having the oldest bridge in the country, the historic town centre is well preserved and is protected by law against any development.

In 2002 a great flood of the Octavia River severely damaged the bridge flowing completely over it destroying sections of the infrastructure and washing away statues.