We're not in Kansas anymore

After breakfast today, we took an all day tour to two sites located approximately 40 kms outside of Prague. As we drove in a minibus to the first one, our guide provided us with various facts about the Czech Republic. (I think he had given the talk about a million times because he sounded SOOOO bored with the whole spiel…good information anyway).  I found it interesting that the collecitivization of farmland under the communists was so extensive that about 90% of agricultural land is now ‘agribusiness’.  A small portion of smaller farm plots were redistributed in the mid 1990s, but most fields are huge. This is quite a stark contrast with Poland, where the Poles were not forced to join their small plots together to such a significant degree.   The fields were planted with winter wheat, just like in Kansas, but they didn’t look quite the same.  The land was much more rolling, and there were pine and poplar trees on the edges of the fields.