Team Manager

Well today was our last day in Augsburg. An early morning start so that we could pack the vans before the morning technic session at the Eiskanal. A number of the team elected to take this as a rest day before we head into the business end of the tour in the week leading up the Junior Pre-worlds competition.

The session on the eiskanal was from 9 -10 and we virtually had the course to ourselves once again. This has been a great couple of days experience on one of the best courses in the world. This was the site of the 1972 Olympic Games Slalom event.

As the kids paddled I slipped down to the Internet Café to load the previous day's diary and photos…by the time I got back we were ready for the road. A short four hour drive to Roudnice, well actually to Litomerice, which is 20 km north of Roudnice.

We had a great lunch on the road, no not road kill, we stopped on the side of the road for our routine lunch; bread rolls, salad, meats, cheese, yoghurt; fruit and drinks.

We arrived at Litomerice at about 4pm, great little town on the river Elbe, a historical town, more on this latter in the week. We settled into our accommodation for the next week, we nearly have taken over the whole hotel. The manager has kindly allocated a lounge room on the bottom floor to the team so that we can leave all our eskys and food stuff in a secure location. We also have access to the kitchen if needed. On the recommendations of the manageress we took off for dinner at the Radnicni Slipek, we ended up three levels underground for dinner, check out the photo gallery for some pictures. We all had a great meal and headed back to the Hotel Helena for an early night.

Cheers for now --- Geoff