We caused a stir at breakfast at Boskovice, word had gone round that we had cycled from England and the Manageress wanted a photo of us with Titty outside the hotel for their website! Scenic undulating roads to Olomouc then we got to our digs and the world ended according to Donna. I had booked somewhere without a TV and a sofa and we were booked for 2 inghts (day off) - aaaargh!!! It was a ground floor apartment but we had to carry Titty up stairs to get to it! ...

They cook a lot of cabbage in the Czech republic but a worse smell than that is my cycle shoes. Donna's don't smell sweet but mine are shocking, We bought a deodorant to spray them a few weeks ago then we bought some shoe odour powder, tomorrow the insoles are coming out for a scrub as they still smell like cat wee! My cycle shorts aren't to good either some days, well you can't wash them everyday. When we freewheel to rest our bums i stand up on my pedals so my ...

You can fly to Prague from the Uk in just a few hours (unless you're flying with Ryanair) but it took us 39 days with 31 days of pedalling 1382 miles with 64,000 feet of climbing! Prague is over run with tourists and certainly not as cheap as it used to be. We have had one day off here and had our fill of Baroque and Gothic buildings (show us some green hills please). Besides goulash soup and big sausages everyone seems to be eating Trdlo - a sort of doughnut mix...

We entered Czech republic on a silky smooth cycle path then that changed to a dirt track bouncing us to pieces, then there was a flight of steps which we had to unload Titty to get up, then there was steps down the other side, that was followed by an underpass with steps and two 90 degree turns. At one point we ditched the cycle route and took to the road, firstly we were in danger of being squashed by the convoy of lorries then when we cut through a village cent...