On reaching Uherské Hradiště, we located the Tourist Club cottage without any difficulty. It was no cottage – it was a school! Thanks to...
On reaching Uherské Hradiště, we located the Tourist Club cottage without any difficulty. It was no cottage – it was a school! Thanks to the three-month summer holidays, the school was closed.
The mystery was solved. During the three-month summer break, the tourist cottage was available. For those months, tourists spent their nights in the small building; for the rest of the year, the village children learnt their alphabets and their sums in its rooms.
The place was packed with travellers. The manageress scratched her head when we requested for a room. “There’s no place whatsoever, not even an inch. Everybody has come for the exhibition, as you can see. People had written to us months in advance making their reservations. You have come here unannounced. How do I find place for you?”
We looked really worried and disappointed. “What do we do now?”
The manageress looked equally worried. “Right now, you will not be able to find any vacant room in any hotel or even in anybody’s house. They are all completely occupied.”
We were heartbroken. “Nothing at all? Do we have to go back then?”
“There is only one thing that I might be able to do, in case you agree to it,” she said. “Upstairs, at the corner...
