A walk in the park cut short.

After our Sunday afternoon nap we decided to take a last minute drive to a chateau about 30 minutes from our house. While we know nothing about the importance of this chateau other than that is was built it 1716 by a Count, it looks beautiful from the road and it's a nice walk through a wooded area. We got there just before closing but still had time to walk through the garden, find out that there is an art exhibition going on and that the main part of the building is closed due to massive renovations following the devastating floods in 2002.

We had a little time to let Lydia play in the grass and smell the flowers. She was having a great time until a little old lady with her tail-less chihauhua felt compelled to stop and tell us something urgent in Czech. She was saying "kliste" and pointing to bumps on her skin and then pointing at her head. We determined that she probably didn't want us in the grass so we packed up Lydia and left, unsure of the warning we had just received. It was only when we got home and consulted our Anglicko Cesky dictionary that the message was revealed. The little old lady was concerned that there may be ticks in the grass. I guess we should be thankful that she cared so much about our welfare that she was willing to take the time to pantomime the word "tick" for us!