When we reached Czech Republic we stayed first at Jadran in a dark, boggy forest near a very lovely Spa Town. I began to wonder about wildlife - would there be bears? Would there be wolves? John thought this very funny but the truth is that I really hoped there would be bears and wolves - some remnant left of wild creatures in safe cultivated Europe. All we saw at Jadran were two deer disappearing into the twilight forest. Well I didn't give up my pursuit of bears. We learnt too late, after we had left it that not far from Polonica Zdroj in the forested mountains east in Poland, there are bears!
We decided however to visit Bialowieza Natiional Park on the west Polish border with Belarus. Here we found a lovely forested camp with long drop loos and showers heated by a fire. They have re-introduced Bison here and there are wolves,lynx and boar. We were only able to see these in the safari type park in pens but it is the breeeding season and all the animals keep far from humans.
There were massacres here of Jews. 90 people hung from the trees in front of the Orthodox Church by the Nazis at the entrance to the park office. This was the hunting forest or one of them, of the Czar!
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