By Ricky, on August 31st, 2017 Bus 436 for Decín hl.n. © Ricky Yates
I promised back in May that, having moved from Prague to Stará Oleška, I would now write and reflect on my new life in North Bohemia. So here is a post about some of the practical aspects of village life, often in stark contrast to my experience during the previous eight and a half years of living in Prague.
Public transport
Stará Oleška lies on the 436 bus route which provides a service from the village, into the centre of Decín, terminating at the main railway station – Decín hl.n. In the opposite direction, it is possible to travel further into the hills to Jetrichovice and occasionally slightly further, . . . → Read More: Some aspects of village life in Stará Oleška
By Ricky, on August 22nd, 2017 The path into the forest © Ricky Yates
A few weeks ago, I took the bus northwards from Stará Oleška, through Srbská Kamenice, to the southern edge of Jetrichovice. From there, I made my way back to Srbská Kamenice, first following the blue and then the green waymarked routes.
The blue waymarked route leaves the road on the left, shortly after the bus stop, where the road goes to the right, zigzagging down to the centre of Jetrichovice. Initially it follows a gravel track which gives vehicular access to several houses, before becoming a footpath, heading into the forest.
Wayside shrine or Calvary © Ricky Yates
After about one and a half kilometres, there is this wayside shrine . . . → Read More: A walk from Jetrichovice to Srbská Kamenice
By Ricky, on August 20th, 2017 My house & front garden © Ricky Yates
This blog post is an invitation from me for you to join me on one of my favourite walks through the CHKO Labské Pískovce, the landscape protected area in which my new home is situated.
Leaving my front door and heading to the crossroads in the centre of Stará Oleška…..
Malá Oleška © Ricky Yates
……I join a footpath that takes me around this small lake, Malá Oleška……
Olešský rybnik © Ricky Yates
……and then alongside the large lake, Olešský rybnik.
Into . . . → Read More: A walk from Stará Oleška to Srbská Kamenice
By Ricky, on June 21st, 2017 Beer © Ricky Yates
Three doors down the road from my new home in Stará Oleška, is Bar-Restaurace U Soni. It has been a real find and an absolute godsend since moving here. But if you go online, you will be hard-pushed to find any reference to it at all. It doesn’t have its own website. The building does not appear as a bar-restaurant on any online map.
The one reference I could find, gave the address incorrectly as Stará Oleška 76 when it it should be Stará Oleška 86. Putting the incorrect address into an online map will send you to the completely wrong location. To find the correct location, click on this link.
This . . . → Read More: Bar-Restaurace U Soni
By Ricky, on June 8th, 2017 Ružovský vrch as seen from above Huntírov © Ricky Yates
Late in the afternoon on Wednesday 31st May, after I had been successfully connected to the internet, I went for a walk in the hills behind Huntírov, in part to find the exact location of the communication mast from which my wireless signal is obtained. But as I looked northwards, beyond Stará Oleška, I became fascinated by this towering conical mountain.
A perusal of my walking map of the area, revealed it as Ružovský vrch, (Rosenberg auf Deutsch), 619m high. My map also indicated that there was a waymarked path to the summit which then descended down the other side. An attitude that dates from my teenage years came to the . . . → Read More: Ružovský vrch
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