Day 345 Jince - Rokycany

We started for a wonderful ride in the rain through a former military area. And we came very far: about 10km before we found ourselves in the first pub. Grog and beer made us get stuck there for a long while. The only reason to move on was that the oddly attractive waitress could not offer us any food: kitchen closed on Sunday. So we got out into the rain and cycled another whopping 5km to the next town, where we found a restaurant that offered both food and beer. We got stuck there for another 2 hours or so. It was already afternoon, so I brought my companions Hana and Filip to the station for their train back to Prague. I had a short thought of giving up the fight against the demons of laziness and just stay in town. But somehow I managed to find a last  spark of motivation and started cycling towards Plzeñ. I knew I wouldn't make it all the way there, but at least I wanted to get a little closer. The weather got a bit better - which meant: it did not rain all the time anymore - instead long periods of rain alternated with short periods of drizzle and even a few occasions of sunshine. The last 20km or so before arriving in Rokycany were incredibly beautiful: a bike path through the deep forest, suddenly opening to a quiet lake with a water mill. Then the path continued to wind through lush meadows along a brook right into the town of Rokycany.
As in the evening the rain got worse again I spent the rest of the day in the hotel room. The TV had one German channel: ZDF info - it broadcasted only documentaries about several contemporary European monarchs and their families - with a very strong focus on how important this royalty is to the people, the sense of togetherness of the nation, etc. etc. This would be kind of acceptable, if it would have been a private channel. But this is a public channel, i.e. a channel that more or less every German is forced to pay for. It is ridiculous that this money is used to propagate a seriously outdated world view where some people are better, more noble, more worth than others.