Martin is not in Madrid

Fortress on the side of the field

The second day of our trip to Jeseníky, we went to see the old border fortresses from the years 1937-1938. They were build to protect the republic from outside, and were supposed to be build at the whole borders of the former Czechoslovakia. However the fortresses line has never been finished, and now they are basically abandoned objects. However if you want, army sells some of them, and you can have really nice weekend house which can be quite safe, and stand some heavy bombarding… Good thing to have. Just repair one, build swimming pool on the roof, add barbed wire around, and that’s it!

Old cementery

The first big fortress

Small fortress in the forest

View to Šerák

Hanušovice

The top of one fortress

We could get into small fortresses. They are almost always open, but sadly all the big fortresses were closed. However, we found the way to one of them, so I can report that there is nothing interesting inside anymore. However, inside one fortress was also a museum, and I looked thru the gunport, and shot some pictures.

Inside one fortress was also a museum, and we looked thru gunport

Gunport

Warning, water drinkable only after boiling

View thru gunport

View thru gunport 2

Train to Ramzová

Jeseníky are the mountains about 50 kilometres on the north of Olomouc. I went there to small trip for three day with my friends. As you might imagine in the mountains it means hiking, lot of slivovice, and lot of fun. The first day we came we stopped by at the brewery in Hanušovice. That was such a good idea. Only poor driver… [-; We took some bottle with Šerák beer with us, and it was really worth. If you go around, step by!

Panorama on the top of Šerák

In the afternoon we went to hike to the mountain Keprník and Šerák (notice the similarity with the name of beer, and yes, we got that beer in the cottage on the top of the mountain).

Žira, Dája a Šáma with beers on the top of Šerák

On the top there was still snow, although outside of mountains it was around 30. And good time for snow battle. Who can do this in the middle of summer?! [-;

Dája throwing snow ball

Frozen grass

On the way to Keprník

Cat at the Šerák cottage

In the evening we were baking some sausages, and drinking slivovice. The second day we went to see some old border fortresses.

Looks like slivovice… [-;