Zlata Stezka

This is the Zlata Stezka (golden route) just outside the centre of Vimperk and the wall that surrounds the centre of the Sumavy town. On both sides there are some chaty.

In real, its not so quiet, as it lies close to a rail track. Czech trains still make an old communist style noise that keep everyone awake.

Trees

I was particularly moved by the view of these woods. My teacher in geography taught us that these small strokes of wood as demarcation for fields and meadows, is called brocage. I'm not sure of the Dutch spelling, let alone the English. And I can't find the French version of the word (where its origin probably lies) and even google doesn't help much.
Although I found a picture here,
some sotheby-ish auction site
which description says that it shows cows near brocage. And given that 18th century painters liked these types of landscape as well as I do, it further establishes my suspicion concerning this meaning.
I sure like to be the first and only google image hit for brocage... :)

Stroll

Had a short stroll with my sister the other day. We went to the woods, the fields and the hay of Stratum... So what the hay, I publish them photo's here...

On the right there is the extension of the bicycle path home, that ends at the Riel on the other side. The housish shadows are from the villas near the forrest.