Hotel Garni Na Havlicku Kutna Hora

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.<br><br>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. <br><br>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 ...

... aid=2026415&amp;id=1064002 622&amp;l=f905a00fcb<br><br>H&#345;ensk o is the town that we set off from. A tiny little touristy town which caters for all the German tourists. You can buy anything from a jesus statue to bras &amp; underwear in the Vietnamese stalls that line the main thoroughfare.<br><br>I need to steal some photos from my friends as I never have any photos with me in them!

... like the chandelier of the salt mines of Warsaw are completey composed of salt, these are composed of human bones... Macabre and little errie, perhaps at time a little too convincing that it doesn't seem to be real... but that is alot of bones. There are four pyramids, one in each corner, composed of skulls and limbs and each pile is a free form (ie/ it's not held together by anything)...

(Note : All entries from now until Perth in November are way shorter than they should be, as all out text got stolen, together with our laptop, all our valuables, and almost our whole campervan, when it was broken into and trashed in Rome at the end of October. Have a look at that entry if you want to have a look at the damage the *******s did. The next month or so´s text is written 6 months later, so we may have ...

... station together and had a nice ride back into Prague. Overall it was a really good day, kind of relaxed for sure. When I arrived back into Prague I only had one more day in the city. I had seen mostly everything that I wanted to see so I just took it easy. I headed up to the Royal Gardens and hung out there and read a book. I then decided to take a hike up one of the highest peaks in Prague. Get the blood flowing would not be a bad ...

Today we took a day trip to Kutna Hora. The train is a bit confusing when you dont speak Czech. Luckily, it is a popular tourist attraction and we found another group of people going out there who did know what they were doing. The church is made of skeletons. The story goes that when the grave yard became too full one of the monks went crazy and decided to decorate the church with the bones. It is quite ...

... you walk in it is like something from the Temple of Doom. Bones are EVERYWHERE, in piles, on shelves, making up the chandeliers, the wall inscriptions, the coats of arms. It is incredible and kind of humbling. Most of the bones were probably of plague victims way back when, and many bones were simply piled in the cemetery. It wasn't until centuries later that someone decided to create something out of them. They are all disinfected and whitewashed. The central chandelier ...

... sank into sufficient obscurity that it escaped being redeveloped and extended and has retained its medieval character. So now, as a UNESCO world heritage site, it can survive, if not thrive, on tourism. I saw the sights- a museum of mining, the old mint, a church. This took the couple of hours until dinner time. I ate at the terrace restaurant of a grotesque 60's built monstrosity of a hotel that blights the main square. They're operating the ingenious marketing ...

... the truly comical state of the trains. Eh, still functioning public transportation to anywhere though. Kutna Hora is a mining town that once supplied more silver than perhaps anywhere else in europe. It doesn't have any silver any longer obviously, but we were able to tour the mine (an event for which we had to don white coats, hard hats, and flashlights, then parade a short ...