CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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A proper escape from Prague with roads worth waking up for. 747 km round from Votice - plan on about 11 h 04 of riding. On the way it passes Scenic stretch near Jesenice, near Litvínov and Dvůr Králové nad Labem. near Čimelice is the high point. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The hills around Votice belong to the Central Bohemian uplands, a rumpled country of fields, fishponds and small forests between Prague and Tábor. Votice itself is a modest market town with a square, a church and a few thousand inhabitants, a quiet place where the main event of the day might be the arrival of the bus. It has a bakery, shops and fuel, which is all a rider really needs from it.
Read the complete High point near Votice write-up.
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Next is High point near Čimelice.
You top out here; the road stops climbing. Next is Scenic stretch near Jesenice.
about 175 km into the recorded legs you reach Scenic stretch near Jesenice. Next is Photo stop near Litvínov.
Litvínov lies at the foot of the Ore Mountains, the Krušné hory, in north-western Bohemia, and it is a town of contrasts. Below it stretches the Most basin, scarred by decades of open-cast brown coal mining and dominated by the chimneys of a large chemical works. Above it, the mountains rise steeply in a wall of forest, and a few kilometres up you are in a different world of beech and spruce woods, high meadows and small villages near the German border.
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Photo stop near Litvínov, about halfway. Next is Prague / Bohemia return.
In 1817 a manuscript was found in the church tower of Dvůr Králové, a supposedly medieval collection of Czech epic poems that seemed to prove the antiquity of Czech literature. It became a national treasure, until scholars proved it a forgery decades later, sparking one of the great intellectual battles of the Czech national revival. The town, on the upper Elbe at the foot of the Krkonoše mountains, has never quite lived it down.
Read the complete Near Dvůr Králové nad Labem, on the way back write-up.
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Prague / Bohemia return sits at 397 km, about halfway. Next is Food stop near Bílá Třemešná.
Food stop near Bílá Třemešná is where this day stops to eat. Next is Kokořínsko Sandstone Roads checkpoint 8.
Kokořínsko Sandstone Roads checkpoint 8 closes the day. Next is Back to Kokořínsko.
This corner of Central Bohemia is farmland, ponds and gentle hills, the kind of country that Prague residents drive through without noticing and riders learn to love. The point lies between Votice, Sedlčany and the village of Kosova Hora, roughly halfway between the capital and the Šumava forests to the south. The sandstone towers of Kokořínsko are far to the north, so think of this as the quiet middle of the country, the part that gets less attention.
Read the complete Kokořínsko write-up.
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Back at Back to Kokořínsko. That is the ride.
This High point near Čimelice → Scenic stretch near Jesenice stretch is for rhythm and scenery. Keep your head up, let the view breathe, and resist turning every open bend into a target. Stop once properly rather than half-stopping everywhere.
Scenic stretch near Jesenice → Photo stop near Litvínov is the technical section. Hairpins, gradients and mixed traffic can stack up quickly; use low drama inputs, stay wide of centre lines and expect buses or riders appearing exactly where optimism says they will not.
This Photo stop near Litvínov → Near Dvůr Králové nad Labem, on the way back stretch is for rhythm and scenery. Keep your head up, let the view breathe, and resist turning every open bend into a target. Stop once properly rather than half-stopping everywhere.
Food stop near Bílá Třemešná → Near Rudná is the logistics leg. Watch junctions, villages and speed changes, then let the roadbook do its job: move you out of the clutter without spending your best attention too early.