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And into the Czech republic

Brno
Another town with a nice town centre, grotty railway station. Did as close to a forestry pilgrimage as we are going to get, visiting the Abbey where Gregor Mendel did his work on Genetics with peas and bees, and pretty much did the ground work for modern genetics. 5th form science anyone?

Had a awesome Czech meal at Hotel Pegus which is a busy pub down a back street in Brno, where we also stayed. I am a saurkraut, dumpling and goulash convert, especially now the weather has gotten rather chilly. The service was great, atmosphere great, food great.

Everybody over 25 should remember Bata Bullet shoes, so here a good story. There is a chain of shoe stores here called Bata, and it turns out the Bata family were well known shoe makers in Czech , before they left the country sometime after, or during the 1940s, going to Canada. They then made their millions selling velco strap sneakers to kids during the 80s, apparently they sold 50 million shoes a year at their peak!

From there, visited Telc where they have an entire square that dates from the  16th Century, and is gorgeous. Carp fish are also a big thing here, and all the towns have ponds for farming them that date from medieval times. At Christmas people go and buy a fish and put it in their bathtub until the big day!

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