Today we decided to move on. We hadn’t decided where to go until just before we left. The options we had given ourselves were either Warsaw or Vienna. The latter won on forecast temperature for the next week or so.
The facilities at Sokol Praha have been very good but it is, without doubt, the noisiest site we have stayed at so far. The nearby roads and proximity to an airport, coupled with tree cutting on the site, make finding peace & quiet impossible.
The final straw was a man with the loudest, and smelliest, leaf blower ever starting work just outside the van at 7:50 in the morning.
Today we drove, light engine, an hour or so over to Meissen, Lower Saxony.
Route To Meissen
The town sits on the River Elbe a few kilometres north west of Dresden. The purpose of our trip was to visit the House Of Meissen, the home of the famous porcelain maker. Porcelain has been produced in the town since 1710.
Today we took the short drive over to Colditz again to visit the Schloss and take the 13:00 guided tour. Priced at €9 the tour lasts an hour and gives you the basics of the history of the castle and its’ use as prisoner of war camp Oflag IV-C during World War 2.
There is a two hour extended tour available too. If I were to go again I would plump for this.
