Hotel U Hrncire 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 couple minutes away. An Ossuary is used to collect bones when graves are in short supply as was the case here during the plague. The church is full of them including all of the decorations which are made from human bones including crosses, chalices and a coat of arms for the Schwarzenberg family. Freaky but fascinating. <br><br>30 minute walk further we arrive in the town. It is a quaint town, largely restored to the early 1800s. In the distance we ...

I got a little excited when we were planning this trip &#8211; 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 &#8211; not really the same&#8230; I think I was the only one excited though - it's all normal for everyone else.<br><br>We went to see Prav&#269;ická Brána, in the north of the country, which is a ...

... peach, a dry orange, and the rest is still not ripe and waiting for a day when we might be able to sink our teeth into the skin.<br><br> Housekeeping wasn&#8217;t finished with us. The next day one of our robes disappeared. We haven&#8217;t called to ask for it back because no telling how they will return it. We have learned our lesson. Don&#8217;t mess with housekeeping.

... a restaurant for the second time since I arrived in Europe. The portion was huge and I couldn't eat it all. I got the rest to go; it was put on a plastic plate and wrapped in tin foil. I put it in my pack, though I knew it was a bad idea. Yup, bad idea. The sauce went everywhere. I still ate it though, it cost money (what was left in the wrapping, not out of the ...

... were very friendly and keen to help when it was needed. It was also amusing to find out that the local supermarket was called "Albert". We didn't hang around long as Kutna Hora isn't the biggest of places, and although we walked our feet to blisters we couldn't find all that much more of interest to report. We ended up walking to the top of the town where we found a take-away called McK's. The food was fast and expensive and tasted ...

... wacky so I thought I would take an hour train ride outside of the city. I was headed to Kutna Hora. They have a few attractions there but the main one was the Church of the bones. When I arrived I quickly realized that a lot of people had followed me there from Prauge. Obviously a busy little tourist attraction. I grabbed the camera and headed into the church. The church was full of 40,000 people's bones. The story goes that the cemetary was ...

... was being held. What made the trip worthwhile ws the visit to the famous Bone Church Ossuary outside of the city. Its interior is decorated with the bones of 40,000 human skeletons because the church cemetary ran out of consecrated ground in which to bury people during the black death. It is honestly one of the most amazing sights I have ever seen.

... north/northwest. The sinking feeling set in, only to be confirmed once the conductor walked up. In Czech: "to Prague?" I nodded. "This train doesn't go to Prague. Get off at the next station." Great. So we get off at this puny, po-dunk depot in the middle of some non-descript Bohemian village and quickly find out that we have to wait another hour there for the next train to Prague. So much for doing anymore sightseeing around town before ...

... the end of the 14th century, rebuilt in baroque style by J.Santini. Decorated entirely with human bones which were arranged into pyramids by a half-blind monk, as early as 1511. It holds the bones of 40,000 people. Well, how could we miss this.