10 STAGE BRNO TRAVEL 2008

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1. 10 ^ Stage : Vienna – Brno

 

2. Vienna Hotel Admiral my bike in the kennel with the dog.. x luck has not chewed the tires

 

3. early in the morning before the traffic anyway and always riding on the bike paths

 

4. I leave ... Vienna and the Danube

 

5 floor plan.. the city wakes up in the suburbs ... and the first Mass was already praying

 

6. Point decisively towards north ... intended destination of today's stage Brno in the neighboring Czech Republic

 

7Ouch .... modern windmills come to meet me arms (ops..scusate.. pale) open

 

8Also the way ..., although slightly continues to rise.. and of the clouds gather around and do not promise anything good

 

9Someone Else to ..., seemingly out of place, not from "airs" but ... it seems the tadpole ... the blades

 

10. Mistelbach. Difficult to navigate in this way because it often goes to the old road stretches into the new ring road

 

11. in the new sections of the ring road impressive the No. hares death crushed,I assume x 'not yet accustomed to the fast traffic

 

12. Un angolo d’Italia.. sigh!!!…only nell'insegna though.. Nostalgia rogue

 

13. Village near Poysdorf near the border of the Czech Republic

 

14Every house seems ... to compete in exposing wine articles of all kinds

 

15. There's even Bacchus in good company which more than pleased thanks ...

 

16.Here I find a curious sign for St. Petersburg = true or false?..Meanwhile, tell me who portrays knows pianopiano ke join him

 

17. Border

 

18. Zamek Mikulov

 

19. The road continues cutting in half the lake Vodni Nadrze

 

20A beautiful area ... it seems a little stand in our Polesine

 

21Touch the fateful ... 100 km but is still a long way to go ... better cover the speedo

 

22. In a few miles ... I feel projected into another world ... here a motorway with the self-service even to take the mineral water

 

23I have to leave ... the road bike off limits to x 'and then it becomes tangential highway

 

24Through the small towns ... you can clearly see the collection ... undifferentiated.. another that all right Austria Europe

 

25.Rajrad.. the roads are very bad and at some point disappear as well .. flowing in Autostrada

 

26. Also ... the signs seem to be made to confuse rather than assist the traveler

 

27X ... I'll stop asking about ex eat anything but the rude lady who runs the shop I do not want to serve (?)

 

28. does not want to EUR, I do not change the currency, much less listen to me for no reason. I appeal to its employees..

 

29.. I did not even looked at each other laughing. I hope ke some association for the defense of the consumer or whoever it may intervene x

 

30.A gent client shows me the path as the only way x Brno,but I'll get there x comque do x force 4km of highway.

 

31. nice to see the different small families with skate-joints .. I come from if an adult makes the shoes looked at him askance

 

32June in Brno ... finally .. the shadow of its majestic cathedral

 

33I take the bike ... and I get back I'm dead tired but happy ... even today I finished the stage

 

34… x taking only a few minutes, the much-feared and foreseen rain ... also soon go up on the dreaded prison of Spielberg

 

35. meanwhile refreshment spirit

 

36And ... admiring the art.. I shine in the eyes

 

37And out ...

 

38. ..leisure.. brakes.. descent and then a short but tough tear it takes me ...

 

39. ..Spielberg at the famous fortress of the city of Brno.

 

40. During the Risorgimento was notorious as a prison for many Italian patriots,including Pellico, Confalonieri,Maroncelli e Arese

 

41.The fortress was founded in the twelfth century by King Otakar II as a residence and fortress for the protection of the royal city of Brno.

 

42.The Emperor Joseph II (1783) decided to transform a part of the fortress in prison + Hard Habsburg monarchy.

 

43. For this purpose the casemates were restructured, until then used as a store of military equipment.

 

44. Here Silvio Pellico told his detention diary ten years writing the book "My Prisons"

 

45. In it Pellico describes his experience as a prisoner in Spielberg following its accession to the Carbonari uprisings.

 

46. Thanks to the Minister Barbaroux, the book was able to overcome the problems of censorship and to be published (1832)

 

47. Of this book, the Austrian Minister Metternich admitted that damaged the image of Austria over a lost war

 

48. Pellico tested physically and psychologically, will come out with a renewed fortitude and faith still + strong.

 

49. that make you appreciate even more the life and people, for which he will never scorn or resentment.

 

50 Pellico law Dante and the Bible, learning to govern emotions “Govern the imaginative,and we'll be fine everywhere”

 

51. From 1960 the fortress of Spielberg(oggi Spilberg)is the seat of the Civic Museum in Brno, from 1962 is a national cultural monument.

 

52. It has recently undergone a renovation that has transformed significantly the building.

 

53.Brno With the industrial revolution, the city became one of the industrial centers of Austria

 

54. It is called the Czech Manchester, because it still houses several factories worldwide known

 

55. The home of biologist Gregor Mendel and a Czech-Austrian Augustinian monaco, considered a precursor of modern genetics.

 

56. Brno was born and lived well writer Milan Kundera unsustainable lightness of being

 

57.. in my side board

 

58. furnished in a modest but clean and tidy