Cesky Kromlov, Czech Republic, Sun 27 Dec 09

We had hired a car for a 3 day excursion into Poland. So we were up early to leave our wonderful apartment behind and find the Hilton hotel for our car pickup. What a mission! Google maps had no idea where it was but we got there eventually.

Once there we found our little Peugeot 306 hatchback had already gone so instead they gave us a Mercedes C class, black, fast and oh so stylish! Awesome! It was definitely the trip of upgrades.

It was an interesting drive, not only having to get used to driving on the right side of the road but also getting used to a left hand manual drive car. Everything is backwards!

We were actually on our way to Krakow but decided to stop at Cesky Kromlov for a couple hours on the way because we heard it was well worth a visit. And they were definitely right.

A beautiful medieval town with a large castle up on a hill overlooking an old town surrounded by a canal. The place was so cute and like stepping back in time. It was the perfect spot to chill for awhile, have lunch and take lots of gorgeous photos.

Since it was winter not a lot was open but that was actually fantastic because it was really quiet and we didn't have to battle other tourists.

Leaving Cesky Kromlov it was my time to drive. Scary! It took me ages to get used to the gears on the other side and I really didn't like driving in town but I was fine once we were out on the motorway. It was quite fun too because the speedlimit on the motorways is 130km/h & in our awesome Mercedes it was a very comfortable drive. The motorways was also good because we didn't have to deal with quite so many scary crazy driver incidents. Turns out czech drivers are a little crazy, we had our fair share of close calls with overtaking cars and blind corners.

It was a late arrival in Krakow, Poland so we focused on finding the hostel and a spot to park up the car for the next couple of days.