Day 7 --- More SNOW

We got up and lookeed out the window and to our horror, everything was white and there was more white stuff coming down. We had breakfast in the downstairs restaurant and asked about road conditions. We were told that we should be able to get through to the nearby (9 km) town of Policka as long as we make the first two miles out of the village. We decided to try. First, Al had to dig the car out of the pile of snow that accumulated overnight and then we started driving. It was rough, but we made it to Policka so we decided to continue via Hlinsko towards Prague. A few miles out of Policka, the road started climbing and it became more and more snowy and icy with blizzard-like conditions. We decided to turn around and go back to Policka to find out if there was a better route out of Vysocina and if not, stay there overnight. We got there, parked the car and found a nice hotel restaurant with wifi. The waiter told us that our best bet would be a road to Litomysl, a little town about 20 miles away. Since we weren’t sure if it was a good idea to try it, we skyped Renata who after some investigation told us that the Litomysl road should be drivable.

We made it to Litomysl and continued towards Prague. It was still snowing, but nowhere near as much as in Vysocina so we felt good. We stopped for lunch in the town of Caslav and from there we had two options --- go to the nearby Kutna Hora (9 km) for the night or drive to a little village of Zisov, where there was a promising house we wanted to see. Because the weather was significantly better, we decided to go to Zisov. Big mistake! After a few miles, the snow storm started again and soon the roads got icy and snowy. We did get to Zisov, but couldn’t find the house and the blizzard was getting worse. Then we made another big mistake. Instead of heading for the main road to Prague, we or actually I (Bo) suggested going to a cute little town of Rataje nad Sazavou for the night. It is a lovely place in the summer, but not in a winter blizzard. The road there was awful and when we got there, there wasn’t even a hotel open so we decided to drive to the main highway towards Prague and look for a hotel closer to Prague. On the map it looked like it was only a few miles to the highway, but they were heart stopping miles on an icy, narrow mountain road with twists and turns and ups and downs. We weren’t sure if we would make it. Luckily we did, but even on the highway the driving conditions were very bad. We found a hotel a little bit outside of Prague and checked in for the night. The hotel is connected to an aqua park so you see lots of people in white robes walking up and down the halls. We didn’t pack our swim suits so no aqua park for us.