CYCLING CENTRAL EUROPE Eric McCaughrin

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Introduction     Map     Germany     Austria     Hungary     Czech Republic     Links   Czech Republic Telc Ran into these touring cyclists in Telc. Ossuary of All Saints, Kutna Hora. Prague. Communist-era building in Prague. Concentration camp outside Prague. Nazi Concentration Camp I made excellent time riding from Prague to the German border. But what were these hills near the border? They weren't on the map. As I got close to them, a cyclist on a yellow road bike came up from behind and asked something in Czech, which I didn't understand. So then he asked if I was Hungarian. Nope, I said, American. Well, this really blew him away as this remote part of the world doesn't see many visitors, let alone from America. As it turned out, he used to be a mechanic for the Czech cycling team. He showed me the local backroads to avoid heavy traffic into Germany, pointing out all the former Russian military base locations. I stayed overnight at his place at the top of the hills (near a small ski area) and headed down into Dresden the next day.

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