Apart-Hotel Residence Masna 9 Prague
Masna 9 Stare Misto Prague, Bohemia, 11000, Czech Republic
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Prague, quelle belle ville!
... Il semblerait qu'après avoir exhumé plus de 40 000 ossements, un prêtre a eu l'idée de s'en servir pour décorer l'église avec les ossements question de rappeler aux fidèles que la vie est courte. On m'a dit que lorsqu'on voit le "coat of arms" fait d'ossements à l'entrée de l'église, l'effet initiale que le prêtre voulait obtenir n'a pas été exactement ...
Doc Campus 101
So today was the first day of the Doc Campus and set of seminars. It started off as previous ones with a quick breakfast of sausages, cakes and yogurt followed by a brisk walk to the hosting hotel. At around 11 I checked in with the organization and was given my badge and booklet; by the way it was nice they had a reception area and provided tea, coffee and water although it was way to hot. At the start of the first session they requested ...
Travel Break: Oct.26-Oct.28
... everything makes so much more sense. Because the cemetary was so small and there were so many Jews living in the Jewish Quarter (the only place they were allowed to live during WWII) they had to keep burying people on top of one another. So, in some places, there were 12-20 people buried in one grave. Like in the memorial, as you will see, the large cement blocks get taller and taller and taller. AND! while on this tour, we started talking to these 2 girls who were also ...
Praha = Prague = Fantastic!!!
... It's an unusual and moving art work, showing how repression eats at the person leaving only a fraction of a human alive.
Lastly, no visit to the Little Quarter is complete without a stop at "John Lennon Peace Wall". This colorful graffiti decorated wall popped up after Lennon was killed by a madman in 1980. Communist officials repeatedly painted over ...
Stinky Sunday
... place, sitting as far in the corner as possible. Even though hadn't eaten since breakfast the day before, could only finish half what they served me.
It was a quiet Sunday afternoon. Sat on a park bench and watched the people and their reactions to what a drunken old man was saying a couple benches away. After a while, a young man who was on at least his second big bottle of beer, ...


