The holiday and the following weekend around May 8 saw the very best weather that one can imagine for a bike ride – warm, sunny, but not yet too hot. I could not miss that, so I went for a three-day trip crossing the river Elbe behind Poděbrady, through the rolling plains following the river Cidlina through Nový Bydžov and Jičín to the sandstone rocks of the so called Bohemian Paradise and back through the groves near Mcely and around the dead arms and wetlands of the Elbe river in the Káraný area.
The nature this week decided to show some of its best – so in addition to the usual roe deers, hares, buzzards or lizards, a fox also showed up in the evening, I saw beavers for the first time in the wild, in the water I was bitten by caddisfly larvae (known to readers of the child stories about Ferda the Ant as builders of their little mobile houses) and in the Elbe wetlands, not only frogs but also a grass snake demonstrated its ability to swim.
And finally even back in Prague it was more than obvious that really everyone went outdoors this weekend…
