My Travel Adventures

Beginning March 1 st , drastic travel restrictions have been in place to curb the spread of covid. One cannot leave one’s town except to buy groceries, and one cannot leave one’s district except for work. The government has essentially done everything short of declaring a nation-wide lockdown, partly because the Prime Minister promised last year that there would be no more lockdowns, and partly because the government is dumber than a group of thirteen doorknobs. While it has ordered people to stay at home, it has refused to close factories and has not made workplace testing mandatory. Even worse, there appears to be no plan to make contact tracing more effective for when cases eventually do decline, which means that we will be back at square one as soon as restrictions are lifted again.

It was very cold and snowy this past week, but the sun came out on Friday and the promise of getting to take pictures of snowy landscapes under blue skies became irresistible. I climbed up to the lookout above Svatý Jan only to find it still in the shade of the surrounding hills as late as 10 AM. I decided to continue all the way to Karl štejn via Hostím and Srbsko.