Living in a fairytale town.

By which I mean we made it to Cesky.  Currenty the two of us are sitting in the window sill looking up towards the castle tower as the last light disappears, and lightening flickers in the background.  No rain or thunder, just lightening for now. 

The rain came earlier today, caught us a bit short actually.  When we arrived at the hostel they told us it was supposed to rain tomorrow, so we decided to head up the castle tower today while the weather was nice.  By the time we headed down a few clouds had started to gather.  It was still hot as we ambled about so we decided to find a cold drink in the town square.  By the time we left large rain drops had started to fall (and I mean large).  So we ducked into the closest cafe to have a coffee and wait, hoping it would clear for long enough for us to get back to the hostel.  The waiter out front laughed as we ran in looking cold, and obviously just choosing the closest cafe.  It did pass enough for us to get back, and has remained merely cloudy for the last few hours. 

The tower was great.  It gave a view over all of Cesky, which isn't very big.  But thats what I love about it.  Its quaint - without the condesending conotations the word usually includes.  An almost all old town, nestled into the surrounding green hills.  It really is a fairytale like place.  Theres also a river running around the town, separating the main town from the castle (the second biggest in Europe after Prague apparently), and the river looks clean, and sounds like a real river.  I was a little sad when I first arrived that we are only here for one and a halfish days.  I think its enough though, we'll get through all the 'things to do' in that time.  Particularly with the hostel guy writing half of them off as pointless or overpriced.  If I was here for a week though I think I could be quite happy here. 

Tonight we ate at a vegetarian restaurant (yes family, vegetarian, NO meat), down by the river.  Restaurants and cafes by the river are a dime a dozen around here.  Someone said theres 164 cafes/restaurants in Cesky, and I just about believe it.  We also finally asked the waiter how to say thank you, we still got it wrong, and I think he thought we were a bit odd, but at least we've got it better than before. 

Darkness has taken over in the time its taken me to write this, but the lightening still flashes occassionally.  One big advantage to being the types to not go out drinking out every night is that most others do, so we've got the dorm to ourselves, so lovely and peaceful.  Just stevie on the panda keeping us company.  (To explain - Stevie Ray Vaughan playing on my little panda speaker)