Brno; Sunday, 28 July, 2013
It was into that heat that I attempted the very steep climb up the hill to the castle. Normally it wouldn’t have been so strenuous, but in this heat it was really unpleasant.
Thankfully, the castle, keeping to the tradition of all castles, was a coolish place. Medieval Castles, horrible to live in during the winter, but on a day like today very pleasant. I spent a long time wandering around the various exhibitions, partly out of interest and also partly to keep myself out of the sun during the hottest part of the day.
The last part of the castle to look around was the casemates, which had at one point been turned into a pretty notorious prison. I had wondered why, as I walked around the castle, there had been so few visitors. Now I knew why. If the castle had been cool then the casemates were like nirvana. They were probably around 16 degrees, but when it’s 40 outside that temperature difference is amazing.
I, like many other of the visitors, spent a very long time wandering around the casemates. There wasn’t much to see, but I wasn’t giving up this chance of being nice and cold.
By the time I wandered back down into town it was late afternoon, but it was still at 40 degrees so I headed for one of the cafes on the main square and knocked back to large lemonades in quick succession (I had been thinking about beer, but I needed liquid and I didn’t want to get drunk as quickly as I would have done with beer.)
Sated, and probably staving off heat exhaustion, I went for a little wander around the area near the main square, before heading back to the hotel to have dinner in the pub and brewery that its located in.
With the light starting to fade, but the temperatures still in the high 30’s I went for a wander around town taking some night photos before heading back to the hotel to see if there was any point in sleeping.
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