leaving alemaña this time at klingenthal. saw some dying villages on the way and near the border a lot of times: umleitung crimmitschau, zwickau (there was a manifestación at the vw werk), werdau. schneeberg, kirchberg, schmarrtanne. finally kraslice (210) to sokolov. also there umleitung without signs and guessing, but it is a good idea to stay at 210, if you can find it. small weekend houses somewhere at nowhere. passing by these big flowers, that look like anis plants - but in a kind of chernobyl edition. 211 to kladskà and down on a bici route to mariánské lázne, which we wanted to see, but was just another proof of that we don't have anything in common with this chichi fake world. everything is a hotel, pension or restaurace. in between a vietnamese selling cigarettes, the only connection with normality. so we drove back to kladská, where we have seen a small pension in the woods with a view over a lake. wonderful food: wild boars on the wall and on our plate.

there are castles and churches and monasteries all over czech republic, but the west part is still most impressive so far.