Martin is not in Madrid

Graffiti left after Soviet occupation armies

Ralsko is ex-military area. And it was not as much Czech or Czechoslovakian army there, but Soviet occupation army. And as what Soviets usually do, they don’t value anything, they have destroyed their buildings. The same happened in Olomouc. Their famous toilets in barracks looked like a hole from the top floor to the basement.

Entrance to one of the destroyed block of flats for Soviet soldiers

Nowadays destroy house for Soviet soldiers. Some of these buildings are repaired now, but was it worth?

Shama

Our group

The kinda graffiti – celebration of Soviet occupation

Very fine eating

The second day we went around the brewery in Klášter. We, of course stopped there, but their pub was open only evenings, and we didn’t want to wait, so we went to some local pub to have a lunch and a beer. We had some grilled meat, and they were really good.

Entrance to brewery

Some breweries are like castles. On the top of the hill with towers

Somewhere on the road

Bobík

Shama again doesn’t know where we are [-;

Bobík

Tractor

Dragon on someone’s garden

Dragon on someone’s garden

Bridge near Mladá Boleslav

Siesta

Two weeks ago, me, Shama, Bobík, and Víťa, we made a small weekend trip to Ralsko. Ralsko is an ex-military area, so there is a nice nature, nice bike trails. We ride many kilometres and drunk many beers.

Castle Bezděz

Leaving Prague

Shama trying to locate our position

Some of us were wearing more bags…

Shama in some beer garden

Siesta

Once we were in the forest, there was a road in the map, but the road was closed. There was beginning of natural reservation area. There was a fence in the road, but we were brave, and not scared to cross it. I have to say I haven’t seen such a nice forest for a long time like in this area. No damage by human influence, just a nice forest.

Carrying bike across the fence

In the reservation

Having a rest…

Our bikes

Shama

Cross on the way…

Shama again doesn’t know where we are

There is a small airport in Ralsko. The airport was a military one, but nowadays some air-club uses it. But apparently, there is not much traffic. We even haven’t seen any plane there, except some plane models. So as it is not really used. Many things happen there. People test acceleration of their cars, some bikers make circles, and there are these fans of model planes.

This is not a plane, this is a model

Two guys with the models

Shama navigator

In the evening we got an accommodation in a small cabin in a camp. Then we went to the closest pub, we were sitting outside, drinking beer, eating dinner. The owner of the pub was an old granny who apparently drunk a lot that night. After closing the pub he invited us to his house. He had a beautiful daughter who thought that it was enough of drinking, but she had to be told that drunk guests value more than the family… [-;

Funny company in the evening. Víťa played card game of Maryáš with them…

Funny drunk granny playing on harmonium.