When the bus finally made it’s way into the south of the Czech landscape the snow was about 8- 10 feet in drifts which reached up and over some very low houses and blocked roads so that only walking was possible, so I did quite a bit of walking! fields thick with snow and ice awaited me..the soil was frozen solid.
I could have done with a stove later on! but I did eventually have a nice dry place to stay..
there was a bundle of sticks perched on this horizon which gave a surreal feeling to the land, I passed the odd person huddled in their coats against the cold..