More Spring Break in the Czech Republic

We are on Spring Break this week and I've been traveling around the Czech Republic each day to a new place that I haven't been before.

The weather has been gorgeous in the past 2 weeks. I found out that it will be a bit colder next week, but thankfully I am on Spring Break THIS week. I don't have to worry about next week. Today I went to the Archduke Franz Ferdinand's mansion about 40 min. south of Prague. I could only see his hunting rooms and armory collection, (still extremely over-the-top), but hopefully I will be back another day, (perhaps with Oscar), to see his more private chambers that were not offered in this tour.

In the third tour, you can even see the outfit he wore when he was assassinated with his wife in 1914. The mansion was practically untouched after their deaths and it is shocking to see how much they had collected. There are also live bears in the moat that surrounds the mansion/chateau/mock-castle. They don't steal picnic baskets, but they are pretty active and scary looking. The grounds are a magnificent forest with a crystal clear lake. It was a perfect day to be there.