Headed south today, as you have read in the first two posts on this Saturday, to the Charming Castle in the woods called Křívoklát. My Favorite Castle. ...and 900 years old!!! Can you imagine that?!
Here at the Castle a Renaissance Fair takes place each October. The woods and forests along the river were well into the Fall colors, past their peak perhaps, as the thick gray smoke from the train blew into the valley and settled down to riverside. All throughout the small towns you could see thin ribbons of wood smoke from the chimneys as the cold had also settled into the valley.
The castle of Křivoklát belongs to the oldest and most important castles of the Czech princes and kings. It was built in the 12th century during the reign of Přemysl Otakar II and used as his summer seat and hunting lodge. It was rebuilt later by king Václav IV and even later generously enlarged by king Vladislav of Jagellon.
It was cold and gray today and rain threatened for most of the day, but only a few episodes of actual drizzle occurred while I was there. But when the train left Křívoklát, it started to rain and rained all the way back to Prague; & still raining now at 7:30pm.
It was nice to be there though, even in the Gray. Good food, along with Hot wine, Renaissance music, sword fighting, and lots of people enjoying the events in the cold.
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