DAY 6 --- Snow in Vysocina

After breakfast, we left Renata’s for Olomouc with a stop-over at the Stramberk castle. When we arrived, we were surprised by light snow falling. We walked up the steep hill to the castle. It was freezing cold so we left and headed for Olomouc. GPS took us right to Kami’s apartment in the center of town. Kami spent senior year of high school with Bo in the Chicago suburb of Deerfield. She is now married and has a new ( 9 month old) beautiful daughter Anna. Kami and her husband Mikulas were in the middle of renovating their bathroom and doing some other work in the apartment, but we were still able to have a delicious lunch and play with Anna. Kami recommended their favorite Pension in the village of Kadov, in the middle of the region called Vysocina. It was about 1.5 hours away and we left at 4pm for our evening lodging there. Once out of Olomouc it started to snow. We thought that was quaint and took pictures of snow-covered trees. Unfortunately, soon it got blizzard strength icing the road. At 6 pm we turned off the main road up the mountain to our destination. The road got progressively worse with snow , ice and slush and strong winds blowing even more wet snow from the fields. Five minutes up the hill we got stuck. There was so much snow on the road we had no traction. (The car we rented has summer tires because snow in October just doesn’t happen!) These are narrow 1.5 lane roads. Fortunately we were able to slide down to a turn around and slowly made it down to lower elevation and a tiny village of Borovnice. We said we’d stop in the first hotel or b&b we can find, and around the first corner we saw a pension and a hospoda. We weren’t sure if it was open, but we were in luck. We had to wait because the bartender had to call the owner to come and fix a room for us, but after a glass of local Policka beer (brewery was established in 1517), we got to the room, which was surprisingly nice, spacious and warm and had a very nice brand new bathroom. The only thing that could make it better would be wifi, but one should not expect perfection.