Hey Jim, I sort of tried this on a lark with no forethought nor maps in 2011. I had a free day or two in prague in between meetings and decided that, fixie bike friday in hand, hey, Dresden looks pretty close, maybe I can ride up there today and take the train back tonight. The short story is that I got completely distracted by Vltava river side single track that I did not take the somewhat well marked road route (E10 route at the time) and did not make it very far. I think I made it to Kralupy and there was a big street festival, so I ate fried things and turned around and went back. Also beer. And it was hot. I want to return to do it again. My understanding is that it is really well marked now, but I don't know anything else. The off road riverside options were fantastic, ranging from buff singletrack, to old cobbled canal path, to smooth canal path road, to rooty overgrown singletrack on riverside cliffs. I was nominally on the East side of the river.. So in conclusion, have a great time, get a map, stop lots for beers.
The beer was cheapish in Prague in 2011, but it dropped to about 1euro a pint not too far outside of town. Look for the dark (cherny)beers, most places have a pils and a cherny on tap, pilsners are pilsners they all taste like crap American beer to me (well maybe good versions of crap american beer, but the crap american beer really has ruined "good" pilsners for me), but the chernies were actually interesting and seemed to have more variety. I found Pilsner Urquel actually spectacularly boring, even given my anti pilsner rant, the Kozel (the same brewers dark) was tasty, but the Budvar/budveiser was pretty palatable. pics: The complete set from a week in Prague: https://www.flickr.com/photos/targetsalad/sets/72157626827329869 this one starts some photos from riding up the Vltava scroll right for more, I think this is in reverse order chronologically, or perhaps only photos taken on the way back: https://www.flickr.com/photos/targetsalad/5828092467/in/album-72157626827329869/ Good luck, report back! Thanks Tarik On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 11:13 AM, James Warren <[email protected]> wrote: > > I just bought a plane ticket to do this on the weekend of July 17. It > seems to have a Just Ride quality, so I thought I'd mention it. I'll report > back after it happens, but I'm also posting now to see if anyone on the > forum has done this before. I'm not doing a professionally organized tour. > Just going to figure it out with my sister and my brother-in-law. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbe_Cycle_Route > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAh-D1-awLc > > > > Thanks, > Jim W. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Tarik Saleh tas at tariksaleh dot com in los alamos, NM, USA, po box 208, 87544 http://tariksaleh.com all sorts of bikes blog: http://tsaleh.blogspot.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
