After a couple of train delays and faffing about with left luggage, we safely arrived in Prague, Czech Republic on 10th May. We spent a couple of blissful warm days exploring there before heading South East to a tiny village of Kotoun-Oselce, where we spent a week working on a farm that belonged to a Czech-English couple. We had a great trip out there and were amazed by the beauty of the area - wild deer, beautiful fields of wild flowers and a lot of forest! There was a French couple, Agnes and Regis, working there also who were very nice - they had a very cool converted van that they were travelling round Europe in. Agnes and Regis will also be doing the Trans-Siberian rail trip later in their travels but we will not be seeing them on that leg as they are going later in the year.
The work on the farm was good - our hosts were generally quite laid back and flexible. We spent the majority of our time putting in fence posts, clearing the section of half buried scrap, moving rocks, clearing animal areas and feeding the animals. We learned a lot from our hosts about keeping animals and what it means to run a small holding. Their knowledge of birds as well as local flora and fauna also really inspired us to learn more about these things in New Zealand.
When our week was over, we returned to Prague for a day before heading off to Warsaw by overnight train...watch this space... we promise more blogs and pics to come.
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