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So I'm pretty proud I was able to get a few of my coworkers to go visit Kutna Hora today. We got together at the main train station in Prague around 9.30am, and took a train at 10am. It was only 100 Czech Krown round trip, about 5 euros.

I had brought it up a few days ago, and it was cool to get a few of them motivated to check it out. It's a small town about an hour away from Prague by train, with beautiful small roads and just a typical Czech town ...

A late start at 11. I am starving with my need for breakfast. We opt for sausage on the run to the train station for our day trip to Kutna Hora. It is excellent with a choice of 5 types.

Kutna Hora is a Unesco town, 1 hour by train from Prague. A nice day trip. The first stop, a 15 minute walk from the station, is a Cathedral, the oldest Baroque one in Europe. It has recently completed a very long restoration. The highlight though, was the Sedlec ...

I got a little excited when we were planning this trip – driving for about 1.5hours from Prague and we are on the German border! From Adelaide I can get to Goolwa, or Mannum, in that time – not really the same… I think I was the only one excited though - it's all normal for everyone else.

We went to see Pravčická Brána, in the north of the country, which is a ...

... town, real live bears that live down in the moat area, a dungeon and beautifully manicured gardens. Czesky Krumlov is an absolutely gorgeous little place and was definitely worth the detour here from Austria and we would recommend anyone make a detour here if they get the chance. Mileage - 114

... they just moved in into their new house in smetanova. that building located quite near to their faculty. i missed malaysian foods very much. credit to them because they prepared delicious and mouth watering malaysian food. i ate rice wish chicken, some fried noodles and others wonderful desserts. hihihihihihi after that, i went to a sight seeing near the river. hradec have a lot of river and beautiful greeny sceneries. and not to forget the cute little duck. i like them really much.

Today I took a series of trains into Central Czech Republic about 3 hour ride to visit Kutna Hora. I was told a quick slip of the tongue leads to a very dirty Czech phrase; maybe Czech isn't all that different from English? Somehow I managed to switch and identify the correct trains to take with only 4-7 minutes between each connection. I must admit the train system here is ...

... off. After a wee walk we hit up the 'Bone Church', which looked like a cute little church with a very new graveyard outside of it. Once you walked inside it was very... macabre. Filling the room were giant bone chalices, bones ringing all of the arch ways, bones strung along the ceiling, four giant bone pyramids, a bone crest, and the huge bone chandelier made out of every bone in the human body. Skulls stared back at you from every direction with a ...

... and sirens and choppers going constantly. Motorcades were going the whole day, requiring tram routes to be changed, intersections blocked for ten minutes at time, while decoy processions went through, plus the real ones. We didn't spot him. Took some pics of the protesters though, they don't change the world over! The issue is the proposed military shield George wants to put somewhere in the Czech Republic, as a strategic defensive position against the Middle East. Read ...

... I had to have Byron and one other Czech fellow direct me, doing about a 49 point turn to gradually maneouver the darn thing out. At one point, Byron told me afterwards, the clearance was less than half an inch on either side - thankfully, the rearview mirrors could be folded in to give us that extra few inches. Somehow, we managed to get it out without a scratch. Whew! The next ...

... flourishing. You should see the stunning interiors of Hotel Nova Lane. There's no question that "spa" is a big focus in Marianske Lazne and it doesn't come cheap. Overall your dollar still goes far in this country, but the spas cater to a wealthy crowd. Foods and accomodations (except in the deluxe hotels) are still fairly cheap. Healing springs: The top attraction of the town are ...