Thursday, June 12, 2008

tiny bubbles

We left České Budějovice for a long, long day on the bus. We passed by two ancestral villages, Naměst nod Oslavou and Hrotovice. Even though its hard to find a comfortable position on the bus to sleep in, the happiness shared all throughout the bus when someone finds an ancestral village or relatives is very nice. We also stopped in Telč, sister city to Wilber, NE, for a short while, too. In moving more toward Moravia we started seeing huge vineyards, so I knew the dinner and wine tasting at the Blatnička Winery in Uherské Hradiště was soon to come. Dinner was delicious as usual, and the wine…well that might take a while to get used to. (I did find a sparkling white wine in Bohemia that I really liked a few days prior, though!) The entertainment for the night was a great band made up of four men with two violins, one bass, and one dulcimer. And let me tell you, I am now a huge fan of the dulcimer!! (I’ll upload a video of it soon.) Apparently it’s quite common in Moravia. By the end of the night you could surely tell everyone was having a great time because the last 2 hours of the night were mostly comprised of giggles. I didn’t have as much of the wine but I was also laughing just because other people were so funny!  It was another great night of food and entertainment!!

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