Kopřivnice, Štramberk, Pustevny
Last weekend my friend and colleague Martin offered me, whether I would like to participate on a trip. His friend Han was exploring Europe and stopped also in Ostrava for several days. They planned a short trip and had one place free in the car. Since I liked the idea of getting out to the fresh air, I agreed.
Sunday morning they picked me up at my place and we went to our first stop: the Technical Museum Tatra in Kopřivnice. I had visited it before, but since it had been a long time ago, I was very delighted to see it again. The museum has got a large exposition of cars, trucks, airplanes and some special vehicles, all produced by the Tatra factory.
When we had enough of cars, we headed to the town of Štramberk, where we climbed up to the castle and then to the top of the castle tower. Although the weather was not so good, the view was quite spectacular (see the pictures). From the castle we hiked to the opposite hill to see the cave „Šipka“. The cave was a place, where Neanderthal had lived many thousands of years ago. It is a place of many archaeological discoveries.
We all with the statue of Radegast
Next stop was the open-air museum in Rožnov pod Radhoštěm. Unfortunately,
we discovered it had been closed for the whole month, so we headed to Pustevny,
the most famous and visited resort in Beskydy mountains, instead. The
temperature was below zero with bad visibility, but we had to visit the statue
of pagan god Radegast anyway. One and half kilometre there and one and half
back, it was not so bad, even in that kind of weather (because it is a stand
with hot beverages right next to it 
).
The resort of Pustevny was the last stop, after that we went back home. I enjoyed the trip very much, saw many places I have not seen for some time and generally had a good time.