Hotel Zlata Stoupa Kutna Hora

... Crowns for students). The cathedral was absolutely amazing, with a beautiful front naive and incredible stained windows adorning the cathedral, and beautiful architecture.<br><br>We also had an amazing lunch, where I had some great chicken with camembert cheese in the middle. Good stuff. Afterwards, we walked a bit quickly to make it to the train stop on time at 17:00. We were barely able to make it, by about 5 minutes, and then made it back into town ...

... St. Barbara's Cathedral towering over the town. It is most impressive from the outside with resemblance to Notre Dame with its buttresses and gothic spires. <br><br>After wandering the town we have dinner at a neat old tavern that has a long menu of local items and some great beer on tap. We leave an hour before the last train for which I have info is supposed to go. We walk to the bus station to see if there is an earlier bus but the last one for the ...

... stone bridge with views across the country. Once again the trip getting there and back was just as interesting as being there. Amazing, beautiful countryside. The hike up the mountain was fun &#8211; about 1.5hours to get up. When we got to the top the views were magnificent. My pictures really don't do justice to the views or the landscape:<br><br>http://www.facebook.c om/album ...

... on with nothing to look at, I listened intently, trying to pick up even one word's meaning from what she said. I was unsuccessful. The tour through the long-forgotten mine (rediscovered in the past half-century), however, made up for the packet &amp; the long discourses in an unintelligible language. The tour consists of a walk in the former mine through narrow, low passageways with dripping ceilings and really ...

... the miners themselves was both physically dangerous and the dust and noxious air killed most of them prematurely. Most of the ´winch power´came from horses, and at one stage there were hundreds of them living underground in the tunnels, hooked up to big wheels which would pull the extracted rock to the surface. Near Kutna Hora there is also a bizarre church which used to be part of a monastery. A local nobleman ...

... amazing pictures that I was expecting to capture was quite the opposite. The haze filled my lense and I was getting nothing but frustrated. I was happy to take a picture of how Prague really is. I hung out in the evening took some amazing night shots of this beatuiful city and prepared to make my move the next day. I was off to the little town of &#268;eský Krumlov in the Czech Republic and I had no idea what a week it would be....................

... We speak no Czech, so we ordered from the menu simply by guessing and pointing. We ended up with chicken filled with ham and cheese. Not too bad concidering we ordered more than blindly. It was a true adventure! We took the train back and attended a organ concert at St. Nicholas Cathedral. Motzart is said to have played to organ there. The concert was beautiful, as was the lightening through the windows.

Here we are again doing the daytrip thing. Since Mayu has already been to Prague before, she hasn't been quite as ecstatic about a visit there as she is about our upcoming time in Spain and Italy. I thought then that it'd be a good idea to get out of town for a day and see something different. What better then than Kutná Hora - an old UNESCO-listed town within one hour of the capital? The town is hardly a secret these days, frankly. Blame mankind ...

... happened next I can only attribute to some mixture of hangover, residual drunkenness, complacency and tiredness. Approaching a roundabout from a steep hill, not a car in sight, I leaned into the bend and took the corner without slowing down. But the bike didn't seem to turn the way it should, and I found myself drifting wide, and suddenly the clear, calm, concrete and dreadful realisation dawned on me: I'm going to hit the kerb. Sure enough, a split-second later ...

... Also four gigantic pyramids. They are supposed to represent the endless multitudes facing God on the day of judgement. The bones are from mass graves created during the plague and the countless wars in the area. I got a kinda sick feeling after about 20 minutes. Back in Prague and in a free wifi cafe with my roommate, Shauna. Found it in the english language daily Prague Post.