Full Description
Motoring in Mitteleuropa consists of extracts from the author's travel diaries to various central European countries: the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland. It focuses on castles and châteaux but also touches on towns, churches and restaurants. It does not pretend to be a modern Leigh Fermor or Pevsner. The author is a linguist and the work contains a number of linguistic jokes (some hidden). The word 'motoring' is slightly misleading: the author likes driving long distances but has no interest in cars and in fact cannot tell one from another. The friends with whom he travelled have, perhaps surprisingly, remained friends.
Contents
Introduction; Transylvania; Bohemia and Moravia; Chapter 1: A week in Transylvania - 2004; Chapter 2: Bohemian rhapsodies; Chapter 3: Châteaux - March 2008; Chapter 4: Slovakia and Poland - 2013; Chapter 5: A Habsburg tour - May 2012; Chapter 6: Moravia and a bit of Austria - May 2014; Chapter 7: Czech Republic - July/August 2015
