By Ricky, on April 10th, 2018 Entering the National Park on the yellow waymarked route © Ricky Yates
Last Friday, I drove over the border into Germany, in order to visit the Bastei, a major landmark in the Sächsische Schweiz/Saxon Switzerland. The Bastei is a rock formation consisting of a series of eroded sandstone pillars, towering above the Elbe river.
Rather than drive to the nearest car park and almost certainly pay a substantial parking fee, instead I drove to the village of Rathewalde. However, even parking there cost me €2.00!
Walking down the main street of Rathewalde, I joined the yellow waymarked route which headed gently upwards into the forest and the National Park.
After walking for about forty . . . → Read More: Bastei
By Ricky, on November 17th, 2017 My home in Stará Oleška as it looks today © Ricky Yates
This is a question, sometimes with slight variations, that I’ve been asked time and again this past year. So as this is my four hundredth blog post 🙂 🙂 🙂 , I thought I would put into written form, the answers I’ve been giving to all those who have enquired. I’ve broken the question down into two parts, with four reasons under each heading. If you have further questions, please leave them in a comment and I promise to respond.
Why did I decide to retire?
1. Because I could
On 26th February 2017, I celebrated my sixty-fifth birthday. Although, because of increasing longevity and consequent increased costs, . . . → Read More: Why did I decide to retire and move to live in North Bohemia?
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 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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