An Excursion to Křivoklát and an Extemporaneous Newt Rescue
Unlike the beginning of the week (which was filled with uncomfortable interviews), this Sunday was a very pleasantly busy day. Around noon, my sisters, my dog, and I made a trip to the nearby castle Křivoklát. The weather was nice, so the number of tourists without facemasks was huge. In fact, we were the only people wearing them.
The history
of Křivoklát castle dates to a Slavic settlement which was fortified in the
twelfth century and became the site of a gothic castle in the thirteenth. Křivoklát
owes its current romantic exterior to two fires, the latter of which cleared
the way for a major reconstruction that was partly but not fully reversed
towards the end of the nineteenth century. Throughout most of its life, it
served as a hunting castle.
While we
were walking around, we received a video from our mum showing a small creature
waddling around our kitchen. It was a newt. My mum suggested she would put it
outside in the sun, but I did not think that was a good idea, since newts are
amphibians and not reptiles. When we came home, I took the crate full of leaves
in which my mum had put the newt and ran to the forest, because it was looking
very lethargic. As soon as we got there, the newt livened up, and I felt
optimistic about its future when I left it on a shaded rock by an old well.
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