The village of Svincany. A church tower like this is a typical dominant
of many Bohemian villages.
The village of Svincany. A church tower like this is a typical dominant
of many Bohemian villages.
An apple tree on the outskirts of the village of Raskovice.
There are many fruit trees (apples, cherries, pears, plums)
growing in orchards and along the roads in that region, giving
more fruit than people can process as witnessed by this picture.
The apples were still good so I had plenty of refreshment on my
hike (from this and several other trees).
This is a very old village house (note the widening of its walls
at the base), which still used to have a thatched roof when I was
a little kid, recently converted into a recreational cottage
for weekend use only by somebody living in a city. Village of Chrtniky.
Many more recreational cottages were built from scratch all over
Czechoslovakia during the communist era when a lot of people channeled
all their creative potential into this activity. These modern
structures are usually much smaller than the converted one of the
previous picture, and now dot the Bohemian countryside especially
around all kinds of water bodies. The two in this picture are part of a
large cottage colony surrounding a pond on the outskirts of
Svojsice (see previous page). Nowadays some of these cottages are getting
less visits than before 1989 because their owners are either busy making
money and then visiting faraway places, or do not have enough money to
come often enough because the prices of gasoline and bus tickets
went up considerably in recent years.
And here is one more such modern recreational cottage built in the
middle of Ledec. This one is bigger than average and could easily
serve as a permanent home for a smaller family.
