Trains and Presidents

Without straying too far from home, we can find lots of great adventures to fill an afternoon. This Saturday we entertained ourselves with a few local museums.

The Train Museum at Rakovník was our first stop. Our noses were filled with the smell of coal and oil. Our eyes were full of muscular engines. It was great fun to climb into the conductor's controls and stand on a bit of history.

www.os.cd.cz/muzeum/




Staying with the theme of engines, we next headed to the presidentia-holiday-home town of Lány. A small car museum, which is hidden around a corner and behind a posh hotel, is full classic Fords and ultra-modern race cars.

www.auto-muzeum.cz




Lastly, and almost as an afterthought, we stopped at the Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk museum. Known as TGM, he was the man who fought for an independent Czechoslovakia in 1918 and became the first president of the Republic. He is held in high esteem and much admired by the Czech people. (And he was married to an American!!)

www.muzeumtgm.cz/cz/