Mikulov

Mikulov is a lovely place in the Czech Republic close to the Austrian border. This place is famous for the wine made in this region and is part of the historic Moravia region.

We went to this place to meet an old friend of mine from my Erasmus exchange in Germany. She now lives in Alaska and came to the Czech Republic to visit her family, so it was the best opportunity to meet her again. So, we drove on a Thursday afternoon all the way from Graz and got to spend the evening with my friend and her husband. It was a nice reunion, but quite short, as they left early in the morning.

We had the next day just for ourselves, to explore the region, and exploring we did. The weather did not look like in our favour, but we went anyway.

As the day progressed, it turned out to be a lovely day with a rainy morning. As always, I googled a bit about the area and what is worth seeing and discovered a small lake not far from where we were to be an excellent opportunity to go swimming.

On the way to the lake, we had some beautiful views over the vineyards and even met some lonely goats. Or I thought that they were isolated, far from any human reach.

[the lakes]

[the lonely goats]

Once we got to the lake, I realized that I forgot half of my swimming suit home, so there was no swimming, also because the lake was not precisely what I was expecting. I was afraid of how deep it could be. The water was clear, and there were many small fish in the lake. And on parts of the lake, you could just stand one some stones and have your feet in the water, that I liked. There was another small lake opposite from this one which was full of tadpoles.

[Tadpoles lake]

One the way back to the city we passed some beautiful flowers and took some photos, and we visited the church on the hill.

[church on the hill]

From there you have a fantastic view of the area, and you can even see Austria.

Back in the city, we initially wandered around the town and later visited the castle area.

[interesting statue]

[our holiday selfie]

[church on the hill from the city]

[the castle]

On the way back to the hotel, we met two cute dogs. I find it always so strange when I am in a country where I don’t speak the language at all and I really want to communicate something, but the other person does not understand English or German. This was the case with the owner of the dogs, I wanted to say how beautiful the two dogs were and ask for their name, but I don’t think my message got across. I felt a bit foolish, but that soon passed.